"Time of Contempt" by Andrzej Sapkowski

This book continues the story from "Blood of Elves" and is thankfully better written, though no gem of literary value in any case.

Yennefer and Ciri go to "Wizard School" to enroll Ciri, but she escapes to Geralt, who eventually brings her back and rekindles his lifelong romance with Yenn in the process.  Yenn has Geralt as her formal date for the BiGWiZaRdReCePtIoN which is mostly gossip, banter, vanity, poison and nastiness.  However, further nastiness ensues when a coup is staged at the Wizard School after the reception, Nilfgardian camp agains Northern Kingdoms camp and in the process a bunch of people are killed, dismembered, tortured, broken, and similar fun stuff.

Ciri escapes, while Geralt is playing the buffer against the main Nilfgardian-allied wizard, who pretty much mops the floor with him and leaves him with every bone in his body broken, but still alive, just for fun.  Meanwhile the Nilfgardian Emperor Emhyr receives a fake Ciri (lookalike) whom he wants to marry, and who is also his only daughter since Emhyr is the Hedgehog-man who marries Pavetta of Cintra.  He doesn't mind incest, it seems, as long as it gets him Cintra under his belt.  But he knows his Ciri is fake so sends people to find the real one.

Ciri is teleported to the "Frying Pan" desert of Korath where she survives only thanking to her magical powers and a Unicorn (I'm not kidding).  But she gets captured by bounty hunters, who want to rape her, and brag about gang raping someones wife all night long so she couldn't move her arms and legs in the morning.  Tells you about the time and customs in which this Saga is happening.

The bounty hunters/gang-bangers get slaughtered and cut into pieces by a band of merry thieves and brigands called "The Rats" who eventually allow Ciri to join them under the name Falka (a grand-grand mother of Ciri, but no one knows that - yet).  The book ends with Nilfgard hiring a top bounty hunter to kill all the "Rats" including Ciri.

To be continued.