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The Last Wish
- Lu par : Peter Kenny
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Geralt of Rivea roams a world of wretched monsters and ruthless royalty. His combat abilities, combined with his wit and magic abilities, make him a much sought-after assassin. But when faced with moral quandaries and romantic endeavours, Geralt is challenged in a way that cannot be solved by his skill with a sword.
The Witcher Saga has served as the source material for a wealth of adaptations, including a much adored video game franchise and a Netflix series. Whether you’re already a fan or are looking for your next fantasy obsession, The Last Wish is a perfect place to start. Rich with details and vivid world-building, the audio edition is made even more exciting by the rich, deep tones of narrator Peter Kenny.
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Introducing Geralt the Witcher - revered and hated - who holds the line against the monsters plaguing humanity in the best-selling series that inspired the Witcher video games and a major Netflix show.
Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher, a man whose magic powers and lifelong training have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin.
Yet he is no ordinary killer: he hunts the vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent.
But not everything monstrous-looking is evil; not everything fair is good...and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth.
Andrzej Sapkowski, winner of the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement award, started an international phenomenon with his Witcher series. The Last Wish is the perfect introduction to this one-of-a-kind fantasy world.
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- Aimee Bitar
- 21/08/2022
Hire better narrators.
It was fine until the male narrator started changing to a shrill voice for female characters. Ruined the experience.
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- Yaya
- 07/08/2020
Must read
Great story and great voice acting by peter kenny !
(Way better than the netflix show).
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- Daniel Nichola
- 16/02/2020
Excellent!!!
An excellent collection of short stories, not only for amateurs of the video game series, but for all readers in general. As for the narration, it was simply on point!
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- Ginger
- 10/11/2019
La narration ne me convient pas.
J'ai lu tous les livres et terminé tous les jeux liés au sorceleur. Je trouve que le narrateur est meilleur pour J'admire, mais n'est pas très crédible selon moi en Geralt. J'ai donc choisi la version française.
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- Nell
- 10/09/2015
Spectacular Introduction to "The Witcher"
I absolutely love this book. It is full of rich detail and vivid imagery. I can imagine myself right alongside Geralt as he goes from one amazing adventure to the next. I don't want to give away spoilers, so I will just say that I couldn't put it down. The world is so believable, despite the high-fantasy setting. It's a world similar to our own, but with magic and an array of majestic or horrifying creatures. The world is dirty and rife with evil and corruption, but with enough glimpses of goodness and light to give you hope for the future (much like our own world).
I read this via "immersion reading". I read the Kindle version (and sometimes the paperback version) as I listened to Peter Kenny's incredible voice-over. He is a master storyteller. I loved his changing voices and the life he gave to each character on the page.
The only critique I have would be the chapter for which the book is named after. "The Last Wish" is a thrilling and action-packed chapter, especially towards the end. However, Peter Kenny spoke the dialogue of Yennefer and Geralt a little too plainly during the action sequences. There is so much happening I would have expected him to at least change his pitch a little. I read the chapter on my own without the voice-over and let my imagination do it justice.
Aside from that, I will still say that Peter Kenny did an excellent job. I will not hesitate to get an audiobook he voices in the future. I will also move on the other novels in the series, once the "Sword of Destiny" is released as an audiobook. I hope Peter Kenny is brought onboard once again.
Also, as I wrote in the Kindle review, I wholeheartedly recommend "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" game. It's the greatest game I have ever played.
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- Rob
- 10/09/2016
A rich world explored through vignettes
What did you love best about The Last Wish?
I enjoyed the richness of the world, the sense of history, the previous world events and social changes.
What about Peter Kenny’s performance did you like?
I felt the narration did not distract from the story.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I found the audio a little disconcerting as the story jumps in time and location without preamble. In the book, there would be a new chapter to help you with the jump. At times I felt lost, particularly if I had taken a pause, it took me a while to figure out what was happening.
Any additional comments?
This is a great world, well described. That said, it is a little different in style from more common fantasy stories. I found the concept epic in nature, yet the scenes were more like stand alone short stories. Not a bad thing, just different.
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- Charles Meyer
- 20/06/2018
Dan-de-lion
Really enjoyed this story. Excellent narration. Loved the pronunciation of dandelion :) I'm onto the next book already and will be playing the games pretty soon.
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- Jakob
- 08/08/2016
Amazing
Second time I'm listening to this. I Love this series and Peter is doing an excellent job at reading it!
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- Amazon Customer
- 14/01/2020
Hard to follow for non English readers
It was hard to follow, I'm from Spain and I have a good English level, I've listened to many English audiobooks already and this one was specially difficult to follow. I found myself drifting off the narration too often. The story is ok, but not enough interesting to bare the uncomfortable narration. Overall I didn't enjoy it.
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- Albin
- 31/05/2016
Good story made great by Peter Kenny
Just like with any book, and especially a collection of short stories, there will be some dull parts. Some short stories were more slow than others, and some kept me up way past bedtime.
But even the slower stories came alive thanks to Peter Kenny's great storytelling and amazing voices. Thanks to him I bought the second collection of short stories as an audiobook rather than a paper copy because I can't imagine Geralt without the voice acting of Peter Kenny.
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- Keegan Ransome
- 05/07/2016
engaging
each story was quite engaging. i cant wait to see where this goes next. will be picking up the other books
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- AndreG
- 17/06/2016
Amazing narration, a must if you liked the games
At first I had trouble understanding the narration, but downloading it in high quality helped a lot!
I really like the voices the narrator makes, as always at first they are kinda weird but you get used to it so fast.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02/02/2016
A Brilliant Introduction Into "The Witcher"
If you could sum up The Last Wish in three words, what would they be?
Thrilling, brilliant, engaging
Who was your favorite character and why?
Who's everyone's favorite character? It's Geralt, of course! Before reading the book, I was under the impression that he would just be a Batman-like stoic hero, but he's far from it. Sure, he's a badass, he knows everything about killing monsters and all that you'd expect from him, but he's also a good listener, he's considerate and not condescending, he even demonstrates a sense of humor at a few occasions!
What does Peter Kenny bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
While it is, once again, the boring answer that everyone would go to, it's definitely the voice acting. While some of the characters were a bit hard to understand (if you listen, you'll know exactly who I'm talking about), he overall did a very good job giving each one a personality, to the point where I was honestly a bit disappointed when I learned that Peter Kenny didn't voice Geralt in "The Witcher" games. He nails the character!
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
"Last Wish - The Beginning of The Witcher" Boring and obvious, but hey, that seems to be the theme of this review, so who cares.
Any additional comments?
Overall, I can't find much wrong with "The Last Wish" - it's just great from start to finish. Definitely a good read for anyone regardless of how familiar they are with the franchise.
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- Anton Van Houcke
- 15/01/2016
Great performance
I played all games. This book is very nice background, as the games refer to it's events often. Very entertaining and not as predictable as I'd thought.
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- DK
- 20/04/2018
Great stories - horrible narrator
The short stories are well constructed and rich in detail - also, the translation to English seems excellent.
However, the narrator P. Kenny comes close to completely ruining this.
It's my mistake that I didn't recognize him before buying the audio-book - I encountered his horrible narration in another audio-book several years ago and had since forgotten is name.
- staccato-style narration of sentences with (long) pauses in-between.
-> Kenny seems to always pause to read ahead and then PRESSES OUT partial or whole sentences in an incredibly fast staccato style.
-> This staccato style also seems the only explanation to me how he can so completely mispronounce the name Dandelion - his speaks it as "dan-dilllion" which allows him to speak it very fast ("dillion" spoken twice as fast as "dan") - while the correct "dan-de-li-on" would have to be spoken much slower,
- major variations in volume.
-> Kenny speaks some parts very softly while other parts are pronounced very strongly and loudly.
-> This makes for hard to understand listening any any but the most quiet environments - listening while traveling (car, train, etc.) is close to impossible.
It has to be said that Kenny is a skilled narrator - there are no mistakes and he is quite skilled in imitating different persons
-> But this can be said about most narrators of professionally recorded audio-books - his general skills of narration DO NOT negate the above deficits!
I'm actively noting down Peter Kenny as narrator to avoid!
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- Ein einzigartiger Kunde
- 07/05/2017
Liked the story
But the narrator gets many pronunciations wrong, it's really confusing. For example Dandelion... I even checked the pronunciation in a dictionary and he is either using some dialect or pronounces it wrong.
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- Anonymer Hörer
- 23/11/2019
Strange Performance, Decent Book
I truly enjoyed this collection of short stories, my main gripe is about the narration. The performance was uttered so rapidly throughout the book that I had to listen to the entire story at 0.75x playback speed. The different voices and accents were decent, and the characters were well portrayed. However, I cannot forgive the pronunciation of “Dandelion”, a common English word, as “Dan-dillion”.
This won’t stop me from listening to more of Kinney’s performances, because despite those errors it was enjoyable. However, for those more sensitive to these issues, perhaps reading the book would be preferable.
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- Allan Jensen
- 15/08/2017
Good but lacking connecting plot
This a number of short stories about Geralt roughly in chronological order except for a few flash backs. The stories are not really connected though, and form no greater plot. Some of the stories are very good, but most are a bit bland.
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- GoldCoin
- 26/12/2019
Great story, average performance
Great story. Some hickups in the story telling performance, definitely still well worth listening to!
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- Pfotenstaben
- 25/10/2021
Very badly narrated
I love the Witcher series books, but the narrator is horrible, and I find this title virutally impossible to listen to, and therefore not an audiobook I could recommend. I'm ESL but have a high proficiency and experience in reading and listening in English in a wide range of genres I listened to English audiobooks already. This is the first time that I'm really struggling with understanding, due to the speech pattern and pronunciation of the narrator, and his very odd pronunciation particularly of names and book-specific items - and I've read the book before so I'm already familiar with these. I've given up three chapters in and am switching to the German version of the audiobooks.
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- Suja
- 31/05/2023
What a ride
Nice narration, pulls you into the story but nothing to listen doing anything else of course. Accent of the Witcher very unusual but consistent
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- Marcel
- 23/03/2023
Pronunciation is hard, apparently
Skellige. Dandelion. Wyzim. Axji. All hard, apparently. If you can overlook the general mispronunciation - and especially the jarring 'Dandillion' every other sentence - you'll enjoy the stories. But dear me, the narrator really should've taken a lesson or two in how to pronounce Witcher universe specific names. Or flowers. Dandillion indeed.
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- casey ensor
- 03/02/2023
Good but confusing order
Very well written aside from the fact yen is mentioned by Gerald before he’s ever met her in story order. Still love the stories.
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- L. C. Owen
- 18/10/2022
The best narrator I've heard
The short-story format and the fantastic narrator make this an entertaining a captivating listen.
Good books don't always have good audio books, but the narrator of this one make it more of a one-man audio drama than a simple read-through of the text. He seamlessly switches between accents and personalities, which adds so much to the experience.
The format of the book itself is very episodic, so although the short stories do link together, there is concise beginning, middle and end to each arc, which makes the content both digestible and compact. This way of storytelling really helps to build the world around The Witcher in a way that traditional one-story novels don't. Because the stories are short, there aren't entire chapters of lore and backstory, rather the world and characters are presented within the context of the individual chapters.
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