Warhammer Book Ratings

I rate Warhammer Books. That is all.

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"The Curiosity" by Dan Abnett. This is what I want. I love these stories of regular life. A biologist who spent 7 years on a planet cataloguing fauna goes on a hunt because a previously unknown apex predator is killing people. What could it be?

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"Liberation Day" by Matthew Farrer and Edward Rusk. 6/10. Fine short, unfortunately after hundreds of reads of BL stories the subversion is pretty tired.

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If your beloved is lying there without a pulse use this line from "The Wine of Dreams" and let me know if it works. "She cannot be dead. She cannot! I love her!" 5/7 would read that line again.

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Orcslayer by Nathan Long 6/10. Also the title is a deception.

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Well the book is done. We defeated an ancient mutated evil. My only question...if a giant psychic bug has been buried and locked underground for...millenia? How is it making golden mind control torcs. Would have liked an answer.

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14 pages left in Orcslayer and have yet to even see the big bad.

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Not book related though I have read (and reviewed) the Blood Bowl books. But in the Sunday preview this Blood Bowl Minotaur...I don't know but the face does not scream Games Workshop. It looks off especially compared to every other model. Warhammer uncanny valley.

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Ever had an orc piss on you? Well Felix Jaeger has. Right in the eye.

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Sigh...GW announces a Limited Edition of Deathwatch novel. After reprinting it in reader's choice and in an omnibus. But god forbid they reprint the sequel Shadowbreaker. Or uncancel the 3rd book in the trilogy. What are we doing here?

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Flames of Betrayal is so weird. Like GW suddenly realized they never printed Garro Knight of Grey in paperback but had no more Siege of Terra content. So instead they cancelled Era of Ruin paperback and added them together, thereby invalidating Era of Ruin itself.

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Whelp the cozy adventure is coming to an end. We've sniffed our first Dark Wine and had our first death. The plot thickens.

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Seriously, they're currently on an adventure...buying wine to stock up for their inn for the year. It's so quaint. I love it.

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Old Warhammer is so intriguing. No world ending events or massive battle just...innocuous things. Started reading "The Wine of Dreams" and the inciting incident is literally a dude walks in and asks for "dark wine". What is it? Who knows but we're going to find out.

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"Redhand's Daughter" by William King. A fun treasure hunt short story. Some exciting set pieces. And even has a character who I assume will play a larger antagonistic role in a later novel.

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People said it has great characterisation. That is a bold faced lie. And I question these people's judgement and literacy. Our protags BARELY interract. They spend the vast majority of the book apart nkt talking. Then act as if they learned things at the end about each other. HOW

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It sells itself in the first chapters as a recruitment story. Newish Interrogator joining an Inquisitor's retinue after her previous Master died. Rife for personality conflicts, drama, learning, I LOVE that stuff. Then we get none of it.

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To be clear I fought with myself over The Carrion Throne. The more I thought the more upset I became and wanted it to be a 3/10 but it's not. But the potential for a great story is there and then we get...that.

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The Carrion Throne by Chris Wraight 4/10

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The pacing is deplorable. 30 pages until the end of the book. Still chasing the enemy. Have yet to actually SEE the antagonist. Guarantee there'll be no dénouement. Sigh.

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Excessive description is the crutch of the weak and uninteresting writer. Anytime something somewhat interesting happens it's left on a cliffhanger for another scene with more description. Because the actually intriguing parts are too few to fill a novel. The worst.