This was better than I expected it to be. Every story is really, really good. I loved how they flowed and took unexpected turns. I recognized a lot of this from playing The Witcher 3 and watching the endlessly disappointing Netflix adaptation, but reading the stories was still engaging and interesting. 

There are a few things that annoyed me a lot, though. The unnecessary mention of character's breasts and misogyny are impossible to ignore, for one. Examples abound and, unfortunately, I don't think it's out of the norm for the genre, especially older works like this one. 

I also don't understand the allure of Yennefer. I didn't understand it in the game and in the TV show either, but especially not here. We're led to believe that men just fall in love with her without knowing much about her and they don't understand why but they just accept it. Like... okay? Is she putting a spell on them and I'm not getting it? Cause I would be okay with that, I guess. It's not that I don't like her, it's just that I can't get invested in a relationship that's coming out of nowhere and based on nothing. 

Don't even get me started on how many fucking times I had to read the words "lilacs and gooseberries." Is that the smell of the spell or whatever she uses so men fall for her? Again, I would be okay with that, but I'm not sure if it's a clear implication and I'm being thick or if it's just the perfume she prefers and Geralt just feels the need to mention the scent every fucking time he smells it.