Renfri is Snow White, her stepmother conspires to get rid of her and then she spends time living with seven gnomes the Law of Surprise is the miller’s daughter’s promise to Rumplestiltskin made a formal pact with Destiny Stregobor notes that when he locked girls up in towers, princes would try to rescue them, a la Rapunzel etc.

On the flip side, I think one of the most interesting things that got lost in translation from book to show was the consistent riffing on classic fairy tales. All in all, a good change made for a good reason. In the book, Jaskier/Dandelion appears in several of the stories where Geralt is at the temple of Melitele with Nenneke, stories that aren’t reflected in the show, adding him somewhere else was a good call.

This change makes sense both in a “giving Jaskier more screen time because he’s an important character” sense, but also because of how they brought together the storyline of the show. I am also glad that the show added Jaskier/Dandelion to the Pavetta betrothal/child surprise storyline, where he wasn’t in the original story. The djinn storyline in particular I thought was condensed for the Netflix show particularly well without losing too much of the feeling of the original story. Each story is expanded considerably from what we see in the show, which makes sense give the constraints of a TV production, but I think they were very nicely adapted. This first book also covers many of the stories used for the first season: Renfri’s story, Pavetta’s betrothal, meeting Filavandrel, the djinn. A framing you will recognize in how the first season of the Netflix show bounced back and forth in time. “The Last Wish” is a short story collection that bounces between Geralt resting and healing at Melitele’s temple with Nenneke and a series of adventures that took place in the past. My recommendation, having only read “The Last Wish” thus far, would be to treat them as two separate, yet complimentary canons. That sort of thinking makes no one happy. Now, you shouldn’t go in expecting to read exactly what you watched. So, you’ve watched “The Witcher” on Netflix and are wondering if it’s worth getting into the books.

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