Cav's Place

While largely excusable in a first book in a series, the sort of pace and narrow focus seen during the first 600 or so pages of this one as well, so for nearly as much as the entire length of The Name of the Wind, is less so in a second. That said, it’s still […]

Another review would make no difference among the thousands and I could never do this book justice no matter how hard I’d try. Sure, I could praise it at length or, at the same time, find a few things to nitpick, but the former can be accomplished in few words as well and I simply […]

Happy to say that the series does seem to be picking back up towards its conclusion, Tongues of Serpents left behind as its forgettable low point. Plenty of important events and action, characters going a long way, both literally and figuratively, many of the annoying elements having to do with most humans and a few […]

This time around, most of the action happens around Geralt rather than because of him, his contribution often being minor or even non-existent. However, this seems to offer the author even greater freedom, the result being a perhaps wider scope and worldbuilding, action, character development, adept social, political and environmental commentary, depictions of the horrors […]

This is definitely an interesting take on vampires. They make sense, they’re reasonably well explained and they rather fit into the world, or at least some of them do. Neither the properly dreadful beasts of old nor the very differently dreadful modern take, Martin‘s vampires are refined ultimate predators that, like humans, can choose to […]