I’m putting the feelers out there for a Witcher read-along in the coming year. I mean, I only need one person and I’ll go ahead with it, but if there’s more interest I can go ahead and make it more of a proper event.
What is the Witcher series?
There are 8 books in this series (read-along would be May-December) most of which aren’t particularly long, so you wouldn’t be mentally preparing for a slog each month. It follows Geralt of Rivia, a monster slayer – written by Andrzej Sapkowski and inspiring an insanely popular and awesome video game series from CD Projekt Red and TV series on Netflix (season two coming soon-ish).
It features:
- A medieval Polish setting
- Monsters galore
- Tongue in cheek humour
- Badass action
- Strong male and female characters
- A vibrant and exciting high fantasy world
- A look at morality and whether humans are in fact the worst monsters
- A rich storytelling experience
I’ve read books 1 and 2 (The Last Wish & Sword of Destiny) both of which are a collection of short stories and the books we will be reading for May and June if this goes ahead – they are almost novella length so a nice easy start. It would follow on directly from my Monster Week event, which I think would lead nicely into this read-along!
That’s basically it! If there’s interest, there’ll be more posts coming up (or this one will be updated). Let me know what you think!!
Spells and Spaceships 
I’d be up for joining a Witcher readalong. With work and school, I don’t have a ton of time for pleasure reading, but if we’re doing a book a month, I can swing that. I wanted to read them this year and didn’t get a chance to. So definitely keep me in mind if you decide to do this!
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I would be interested! I’ve been thinking of reading these for a while now, so this would be perfect!
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Oh interesting, I might have to join! For some reason I stoppped after Blood of Elves, even though I was really enjoying it!
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I’m definitely interested!! I started reading the series last winter (and loved it), but didn’t end up finishing it once I got busy with blogging. Marking the Calendar today 😉
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Reckon I might get involved with this. One book a month is hardly a big commitment! Plus I have been meaning to restart the series as I have only read the first two short story collections.
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I’d be interested! I’ve been so curious about this series for a while but haven’t gotten to reading them yet. In the meantime I’ve just been working on completing other series that I started! 🙂
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I’d love to take part! I’ve been wanting to re-read the series for a while now 🙂
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