the last wish is a collection of short stories in the witcher universe. from what i understand the voice of reason chapters take place in present-day, while other chapters are retelling events from the past. 

there's lots of action scenes and descriptions of blood, injury, dead bodies, etc, and it gets a little gory after a while, but i'm not someone who minds that stuff

i watched only the first episode of the show, but i kind of got the impression that geralt was a pretty silent guy. this is not true in the book (and idek if its quite true in the show..). geralt will just talk to everybody. his horse, random townspeople, old friends, monsters- he even has a multi-page chapter that is just his own monologue. he's so chatty lol but this is a welcome surprise bc i cant imagine having a whole novel of just idiot side characters talking while geralt does stuff i think i would explode

it's true that this book is sort of misogynistic, as i've heard people say before. i can forgive it mostly because everything else is so awesome and likeable but the way none of the scenes in this book pass the bechdel test is striking. and the way that every time a woman appears she must be either some sort of godly mother figure or an evil bitch.. yeah it's a lot. even geralt sees women as a commodity, which is sad, but whatever. its 90s polish fantasy written by a guy who was in his forties at the time.