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The Witcher: The Last Wish Book Review An Entertaining Fantasy Book A while ago I read the first Witcher book, The Last Wish. I once played like 5 minutes of, The Witcher 2 game and watched the show on Netflix but, this book was really a proper introduction to what the series was about for me. The Witcher: The Last Wish is a collection of short stories that follows a Witcher, Geralt. Geralt travels across the world fighting monsters and making a few friends along the way. Ok I oversimplified the plot, but it really was a while ago since I read this book. I do remember some things about it though. The characters were well written, the pacing was pretty good, and it was fun reading about all the different types of monsters. I haven't read many books in the fantasy genre, but I thought this book was pretty good for an outsider looking in. The Last Wish does a great job of establishing Geralt as a character and I got a pretty good sense of who he is. The other characters seemed to st...

So, I just finished reading the book A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore. This is a fantastically entertaining book which I recommend strongly. So the plot of the book follows Charlie Asher, just your average beta male. When his wife dies shortly after childbirth, Charlie finds himself taking on a new job as death. Okay, one thing that I want to make clear about this book is that it has multiple laugh out loud moments that are really really funny. Granted this doesn't happen all the time in the story but when it does it really hits! The characters are always entertaining, and I think that there was not one primary or secondary character that I did not like. Pretty much all of the characters had something to add to the story in a way that really portrays it very well. If you're up for a little dark humor, you will like this book. If you like a little bit you silly adventure, you will like this book. If you've read this book before, please tell me what your thoughts of it we...