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'''''The Last Wish''''' is first book in [[The Witcher]] series by [[Andrzej Sapkowski]], originally written in Polish but translated to English [[Adaptation Displacement|after the game became popular]].
 
ConsistsThe book consists of six short stories [[Framing Device|framed]] by a seventh narration. While not an immediate part of "The Witcher Saga" (which spans books three through seven), it introduces most of its protagonists (Geralt, Yennifer, Dandelion) and foreshadows Ciri's origin story.
 
* ''The Voice of Reason''. The [[Framing Story]]. While Geralt recuperates from his injuries at the Temple of Melitele, Head Priestess Nenneke makes him retell some of his adventures.
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* [[The Butcher|The Butcher of Blaviken]]: Geralt in ''The Lesser Evil''.
* [[Anachronic Order]]: ''The Voice of Reason'' is set immediately after the ''The Witcher'', which is chronologically the last adventure Geralt recalls. The rest seem to follow each other, though.
* [[The Butcher|The Butcher of Blaviken]]: Geralt in ''The Lesser Evil''.
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: averted with Princess Adda in ''The Witcher'', who was the result of an incestuous affair between the King and his sister and spends the first fourteen years of her life as a ''striga'', and again in ''Lesser Evil'', which features a sociopathic leader of a warband, who happens to be a princess by birth.
* [[Fractured Fairy Tale]]