The Last Wish

This was an entertaining read and I enjoyed that it was taking some classic fairy tales and putting a new spin on it with a monster hunter going around hunting the monsters in these stories.

What i didn't enjoy, though, was the treatment of women and sexual assault and sex in general. I didn't like how almost all female characters had to be SOMEHOW connected with sex with a man, whether it was sexual attraction or rape or just sex or something else. Yennefer was by far the best female character in the whole book, but even then I was far from 100% happy with her characterisation. There's a LOT here to be improved on in terms of writing women tbh. When I found out that this book was published in 1993, it suddenly made a lot more sense but still - not really a reason for me to close two eyes and continue if it's getting on my nerves.

Whether i will pick up the second book remains to be seen. I definitely haven't ruled it out, but the general treatment of women in the first book is really not making me very motivated to check it out. I also haven't really seen enough of the lore and politics of the world to be sucked in to that in this one.