As if he had listened to the numerous lamentations of readers who complained that in the previous book of the series too little was said about the witcher himself, Pan Andrzej “corrected himself.” In this book we will again observe such a complex and ambiguous life of a “simple” witcher. In search of Ciri, he is ready to travel around the world. And in these aspirations he is not alone, although a strange company surrounds him... The cheerful troubadour is a favorite and lover of women, the highway bandit Zoltan Chivay, the dwarf with the sonorous name Percival Schuttenbach, Maria Barring, nicknamed Milva, an archer from God and, not much more no less - here it is, a surprise from the master - a vampire. The world has already turned upside down if the witcher travels in the same company with a creature that, by duty and calling, is obliged to mercilessly destroy... A cunning plot trick or another lesson in wisdom, humanism, tolerance? Not all those who are against us are enemies, nor are all those friends who are with us. Life is too damn hard to judge in black and white terms.