Escape Velocity

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Review: The Last Wish – Andrzej Sapkowski

Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher, trained to fight monsters of all shapes and sizes. As Geralt travels the continent in search of bounties to earn his coin with, he is confronted with a difficult truth: some monsters are fairer than others, and some monsters are not even monsters at all.

Review: Red Country – Joe Abercrombie

When Shy and her surrogate-father Lamb return home from a trip to the village to sell the crops, they find the farm burned, Shy’s brother and sister gone and their caretaker hanged. A determination and a flicker of wrath stir in the otherwise placid Lamb, and they set out to chase the perpetrators. Elsewhere in the Near Country, Temple, chief lawyer and secretary to the washed-up mercenary captain-general Niccomo Cosca, has seen enough of the company’s ‘heroics’.

Review: The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf – Netflix

As strange variants of monsters start to terrorize the forest of Ard Carraigh, the witcher Vesemir is tasked to investigate their origins. Meanwhile, in political spheres the following question arises: is there still a need for monster hunters in the world?