New Witcher Novel Tells Geralt’s Origin Story And Is Discounted On Launch Day

The 400-page prequel novel takes place shortly after Geralt graduates from Kaer Morhen. He doesn’t yet understand how the world views him, and he barely escapes death as a result. The story follows Geralt’s training with Preston Holt, the witcher who saved his life.

Crossroads of Ravens provides fans with Geralt’s origin story, which is an exciting development for a character who has become a fantasy fiction icon since his 1986 debut. Yes, Geralt has been around for nearly 40 years, but English translations of Sapkowski’s work didn’t appear until 2007, the same year CD Projekt Red released its first Witcher video game.

If you’re interested in reading the other books in The Witcher series, this box set is a one-stop shop and offers the best value. Released in 2020 by Gollancz, the UK publisher of the series, this box set is technically considered the international English edition. But unlike many UK imports, The Witcher 8-Book Box Set is sold and shipped directly from Amazon.

The collection includes all of the books you need to read to catch up with The Witcher Saga: the two short story collections, the five mainline novels, and the prequel novel Season of Storms. At $62.90, you’re getting each book for less than $8 each. All told, this box set is 3,002 pages, so it’ll keep fantasy readers busy for a while.

Each book has a different color cover with a variation of the Witcher series logo in the center. The display box matches this style, and you’ll see the Witcher logo emblem on the spines of each book, too.

If you want to check out the covers of these editions to compare to other options, take a look at this Amazon hub page we created. Amazon has some of the individual books in stock but not all of them. If you opt for these editions, you’ll want to go with the box set.

All five mainline novels are collected in this 2022 box set published by Orbit. Currently priced at $50, this deal is shipped and sold by Amazon, too. Just keep in mind that we have seen this box set for as low as $33 this year. And since it only comes with the five main novels, you’ll have to purchase the collections and Season of Storms separately. In any case, this is a nice set of paperbacks with more subdued designs. The white covers are decorated with different symbols from the series. Just like with the Gollancz box set, the display box matches the covers.

Sapkowski’s pentalogy of mainline Witcher novels includes the following titles (in order):

• Blood of Elves
• The Time of Contempt
• Baptism of Fire
• The Tower of Swallows
• The Lady of the Lake

These paperbacks are more compact than the editions found in the 8-Book Box Set, so the page counts are higher. Across the five books, this set is 2,208 pages, whereas the same five novels total 1,965 pages in the 8-Book Box Set.

The Witcher Stories Box Set is meant to be paired with the novel collection. The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny are the first two books in the series. While you don’t necessarily need to read them before Crossroads of Ravens, it’s highly recommended that you read them before diving into Blood of Elves, the first mainline novel.

For comparison, The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny total 678 pages in the 8-Book Box Set, while this collection is 768 pages. Like the novels, the Orbit editions of the story collections are more compact than the Gollancz editions.

The Witcher Stories Box Set is on sale for $26.90 at Amazon, so you’d currently spend $77 combined on the two sets. Throw in Season of Storms and that number jumps closer to $90.