The title of this book sparked a debate on the Witcher subreddit, the US translation has it as “The Tower of Swallows” while the UK has it as “The Tower of the Swallow”. The majority agreeing with the latter, upon finishing reading the book I also agree the correct title should’ve been The Tower of the Swallow. So in addition with the horrible book covers, and publishing Blood of Elves before Sword of Destiny, yet another fuck up from Orbit Books publishing.

NO SPOILERS:
The fourth book in The Witcher saga, The Tower of the Swallow has more emphasis on Ciri. The majority of this book is narrative from Ciri’s point of view. In this book you finally learn how she got the scar in her face, as well as her tattoo in her inner thigh. By now you already know Ciri is actually the main protagonist in the saga (no this is not a spoiler), because in addition to the majority of this book being narrative from Ciri’s point of view, the book also focused more on the political situation, and then finally Geralt’s quest of rescuing Ciri comes into the equation. Anyone expecting to read of Geralt killing monsters on this book will be slightly disappointed.

More characters are introduced in this book. Avallac’h finally appears, among others both evil and good. So far, in my opinion this book is the most darkest and violent one in The Witcher series. Sapkowski doesn’t sugar coat or hides the violence characters endure in this book.