Witcher books

I played the third Witcher game and loved the world, universe, characters ect. So naturally I went and read the books. I know that’s somewhat backwards, usually it would be the other way around. That being said, does anyone else find the books far less interesting? I have many reasons, and understand the game embellishes parts of the story to make gameplay out of, the monster encounters and such, I’m trying to be realistic and open minded but I was left wanting by the books despite them being the source material.