Blood of the Elves

Yea, I recently read Blood of the Elves, er, bout last week, and decided to do a...erm...review about it...yea...

Blood of the Elves is about a young girl called Ciri, she was the Child Surprise of Geralt of Rivia, the legendary witcher, who was promised by Ciri's mother, the child in her womb in one of the short stories in the Last Wish. So Geralt finds Ciri in the aftermath of the war, where her kingdom of Cintra was overun by the Nilfgaard Empire, who seeks to conquer the Northern Kingdoms. They are mainly elves (I think). The humans of the Northern Realms begins to distrust the non-human people. The dwarfs, gnomes, elves, and a whole bunch of other creatures. Anyway, the story focuses on Geralt, Ciri and partly Dandelion, a bard known to be the best friend of Geralt, chased by the agents of Nilfgaard, Lord Rience. So that they can capture Ciri. The reason is not known yet.

There is only one battle scene involving monsters, at that was when Geralt was fighting this er...river creature...where before hand a scholar was trying to convince Geralt that the thing didnt exist...when the scholar decides to name the thing after Geralt, Geralt declines, and ask him to name it after a bothersome rascal....

Overall, the story is at a slow-pace, but still, its awesome in its way. Especially how the Socia'teal and the humans are at odds and the dwarfs that protected a decoy caravan. Things such as this are quite interesting in its way. How Triss Marigold's name as carved at the gravestone of the Heroes of the Sodden War, yet she still lives....a lot remains a mystery, to be continued in the next books...

Yea, you should read the Last Wish, before reading Blood of the Elves to know the story. Its the Question of Price short story.