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Title: Skavenslayer: Gotrek and Felix (Warhammer Novels (Paperback)) by William King ISBN: 0-671-78385-8 Publisher: Games Workshop Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the greatest books in Warhammer history
Comment: "SkavenSlayer", starts of with, Felix, and Gotrek, in the sewers of a large imperial city as sewerjacks, to kill trolls, or other forces of chaos, who might be wondering in the maze of sewers, in order to get money. However there simple job to get money became there battlegrounds for there new breathtaking adventure, when they find a skaven ratman, making a deal with a human. As the human gave the ratman, a warp stone, the ratman, saw gotrek and threw the stone to the ground which caused a eary fog to kill the ratman, and one of the sewerjacks accomponing felix, and gotrek. after that gotrek and felix, realized the city was in trouble to be attacked from the most unexpected direction, from below.
Together felix and gotrek must fight the hordes of skaven, to protect the city, or die in honor.
this book was one of the best I've read, it had great suspense, action, humor, ect. i recommand that all felix and gotrek novel lovers read this book. also if your a skaven funatic you would probably injoy this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lots of fun. Humorous, and more character development
Comment: This is the 2nd book in the Felix & Gotrek series, but the 5th one I've read. I started with the 3rd book in the series, "Daemonslayer", and read the two after it before deciding to go back and read the first two volumes in the series that I'd missed.
Out of the five, I'd have to say that this is by far the most comical, and also seems to have the greatest amount of character development for our hero Felix Jaeger.
William King seems to be having a real ball writing the scheming, often silly and always back-stabbing rat-men called the Skaven, and I get the impression that in fact they may very well be his favourite Warhammer race of all to write. After reading and enjoying this book so much I feel I gained a whole new appreciation for them, and understand more why he even decided to carry some Skaven characters on into subsequent books in the series.
Briefly, this book finds our fearless adventuring pair in the city of Nuln, in the heart of the Empire, where they are reduced to eking out a humble living in the most menial of duties in the sewers below. But in the course of this humiliating work, they uncover a deadly plan by the devious rat-men to take over the city. -- Can our heroes save the day???
The plot takes lots of twists and turns and brings lots of laughs along the way. The characters of crafty Skaven sorceror Thanquol and especially his poor, bedraggled lackey Lurk Snitchtongue (love that name!), who seems to be barely escaping from one tight situation with his masters after another, are especially memorable.
Lurk goes on to get further "development" in the next book! So while I wouldn't say this book is essential in the series and is actually one of the lighter entries, I think it would definitely enhance your enjoyment of its unforgettable sequel if you read this one first.
Rating: 3
Summary: Second in the series...
Comment: *** 1/2 Stars
What started over a decade ago in a magazine devoted to the roleplaying and tabletop games by Games Workshop called Warhammer, now sees a surprising resurgence of life after all these years since Games Workshop closed their book publishing division, GW Books. Though the magazine lives on, the great stories from arguably the best fantasy world since Tolkein created Middle Earth (I actually think the world of Warhammer better). Sadly GW has seemingly abandoned even their flagship roleplaying game (and my favorite roleplaying game of all time) and all the world detail that went along with it.
But this is a review about a the second book in a series that is 10 years overdue. While Trollslayer (the first book) was only a collection of short stories (reprinted from the early magazine/anthology days), this one flows much more like a novel in it's own right. I will point out however, that the first chapter is actually a short story published years ago.
This is both a good thing and a bad thing. Good because it's nicer to read a book with more continuity, yet bad because the stories of Felix and Gotrek worked so well in the short story format. Not that I'm complaining; I've waited over 10 years for a Felix and Gotrek novel and now I have one.
I've rated this book less than I did for Trollslayer, but it's not bad. Above all, William King's writing style and characterization will keep you flipping pages even when story doesn't live up to it's potential. There are many great points to the book, and William gets to really develop the Skaven (ratmen) far beyond what he did long ago in the short story Skavenslayer.
The fun points are watching Felix and Gotrek repeatedly thwart the bumbling machinations of the Skaven, ultimately leading up the the stories climax where the Skaven assault one of the largest human cities in the world (right where our heroes happen to be). As fun as all this is, I was just a bit dissapointed at how the book focused so much on the Skaven and their plots.
One of the great things about the short stories was how you [the reader] got to explore so much of the Warhammer world through the eyes of these two wouldbe heroes. Trollslayer [the book] takes you on a wild ride starting from the first exploits of our heroes to thwart a chaos cultic ritual, to saving a border town from goblin wolfriders, to the deep underground of an ancient dwarven fortress in search of lost treasure only to find something truely horrific. And these only the first three stories of the book. Skavenslayer offers Skaven, then more Skaven, then even more Skaven.
The book is good, though not as dynamic as the first. If you liked Trollslayer, by all means get this book. I can't get enough of Felix and Gotrek.
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Title: Dragonslayer: Gotrek and Felix (Warhammer Novels (Paperback)) by William King ISBN: 0743411579 Publisher: Games Workshop Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Beastslayer (Warhammer Novels (Paperback)) by William King ISBN: 0743411617 Publisher: Games Workshop Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Giantslayer by William King ISBN: 0743443462 Publisher: Games Workshop Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Trollslayer (Warhammer Novels (Paperback)) by William King ISBN: 0671783734 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Vampireslayer (Warhammer Novels (Paperback)) by William King ISBN: 0743411684 Publisher: Games Workshop Games Workshop Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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