The thing is, Yennefer also hooks up regularly with another sorcerer named Istredd.

Much backstory is implied these two have a messy past but keep coming back to one another. “Shard of Ice” shows the reader how things go wrong between Geralt and Yennefer. Two of them, “Shard of Ice” and “A Little Sacrifice” deal with matters of love and Geralt’s complicated and conflicted feelings about Yennefer and a female bard named Essie Davin, aka Little Eye. The next three stories were not in the TV series but perhaps will show up in season two. The ending is much better in the book! Borch truly is “the most beautiful,” and before he departs, he tells Geralt - a man who comes across as depressed and directionless - that “Even those who are different can survive.” Dandelion and Yennefer are featured in this story, as well as a host of characters that may or may not have been in the TV series. Borch and his two warrior women stop them and travel with Geralt, leading to some interesting conversation about forces of order, forces of chaos, and the need to adapt if one is to survive.

It opens with some townspeople about to ransack Geralt’s possessions, assuming that he has been done in by the basilisk they hired him to slay. “The Bounds of Reason” is the story of Borch Three Jackdaws and the saving of a dragon, but how that all happens plays out differently in this story. Sword of Destiny includes six stories, the first of which will be familiar to fans of the TV series. Some of the stories were featured in the TV series, and the reader gets to know characters like Dandelion (Jaskier) and Yennefer a little better. Sapkowski further develops the main character Geralt of Rivia while hitting hard on themes of a changing world and the role of fate and destiny in Geralt’s life. This second Witcher volume, like the first, is a collection of short stories not necessarily told in chronological order.

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