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[orangerful]

I'm listening to 'The Last Wish', the first book in The Witcher series.

In the books and games (at least, in the English translations), the bard is named Dandelion.

For some weird reason, in the audiobook, the narrator has chosen to pronounce this as "Dan-DILL-ee-On" and it is just very weird. Like, I want to see his pages to see if it was spelled differently. Because in the game, he is definitely called "Dandelion", pronounced just like the flower.

(and all the Netflix only fans are like "Wait, you mean Jaskier?")

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[razorbladeromance]

LOL Like with a French accent? LOLOLOLOL

[orangerful]

I wish. I can't even describe it, it's this really weird, rushed pronunciation.

[rhoda_rants]

Okay, help me straighten this out, because I'm trying to get a sci-fi / fantasy book club started at my library, and one of the things on our book list is The First Book in The Witcher Series. Literally everyone I ask--including our catalog--has a different answer, and "The Last Wish" was not one of the choices we landed on, so now I'm even more confused.

[orangerful]

'Last Wish' is the first book published featuring The Witcher BUT it is a collection of short stories, as was the second book published 'Sword of Destiny'. The first book in "The Witcher Saga" is Blood of Elves.

Man, this is some Narnia level ranking confusion, I had no idea until you asked me LOL. Goodreads lists them as "Witcher 0.5" LOL

Most of the short stories in 'Last Wish' were adapted for Season 1 of the Netflix series for Geralt's episodes. Yennefer and Ciri don't appear until the other books I think (though Geralt mentions Yen in passing during one of the short stories which I thought was odd since she had not been introduced).

So, yeah, if you want the first NOVEL, then it is Blood of Elves. If you want the first published work, it's Last Wish. **shrug** I have heard you can go either way