Narrenturm - Andrzej Sapkowski

This book could be great if it wasn't for the fact that almost two thirds of it are about Sapkowski and his characters leering over women. Because the other third is really entertaining and fun, the adventures of Reynevan, who has to run away after being found with a married woman and whose life gets entangled with religion, dark magic, wars and politics. After finding himself on the run early on in the book, Reynevan gets to meet with all kinds of different and interesting characters, and is in the middle of betrayals, secrets, the Inquisition... And all with your traditional dark, gritty, dirty, messy Sapkowski style to tell a story and to give voice to the characters. Too bad then that he is so obsessed with bodies and looks, in particular women's, and dedicates long passages to their description, taking the reader from the story and making it a little creepy affair. It was something that was already on "The Witcher"'s series, but here it feels tenfold. Entertaining, yeah. Tiring, too. The best: religion & adventures! The worst: Sapkowski and women 4/10 (Castilian translation by José María Faraldo)