‘The Tower of the Swallow’ is a bit of a mixed bag. Quite a lot happens that progresses the overall story of the series and there are some excellent combat sequences. Often, though, the writing is quite meandering in getting to certain points. Things are often bitty and broken, sidling around events and jumping perspectives and time zones in detailing what has happened or is happening.
The Witcher series often adopts different approaches to writing and storytelling; some more successful than others. Even if they happen not to quite work at times, they are still generally of interest in some way. Here, though, the author uses similar techniques to those he has used before but seems to get a bit carried away adopting multiple techniques and approaches, sometimes to tell the same thing. This results in a bit of overlap and repetition, rendering things a little confusing at times.
Much of ‘Baptism of Fire’ was devoted to establishing Geralt and his ‘team’. They are still a good and entertaining element of the novel but there is simply not enough of them after their build up in ‘Baptism of Fire’. For a series that is entitled ‘The Witcher’ it is a bit light on him.
Instead a lot of the book is occupied with the various figures that are involved in some way in tracking down and capturing Ciri. The novel is more orientated around how these characters frequently hamper each other’s efforts in capturing or killing Ciri because they focus on their own agendas. Following all of them is done in several ways, utilising different styles. Sometimes, though, this is too experimental and doesn’t really work.
The better parts of the novel probably involve Ciri and her continuing character development as she is forced to adapt to survive those that hunt her. The setback and sufferings she has to endure begins to send her down a dark path psychologically and the novel leaves her in an interesting place character wise.
Although it possesses some good plot developments for the overall series and some strong, exciting scenes, the unnecessarily convoluted style result in this being one of the weaker Witcher books.
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The structure and writing are often messy, but it possesses some good scenes
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