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Title: Daemonslayer by William King ISBN: 0-671-78389-0 Publisher: Games Workshop Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: King's first Slayer novel is good.
Comment: First let me say, I love William King (well not that way). I've been a fan of his since the first Gotrek and Felix story came out in the late 80's. I had always wished King would right a novel about the duo, and now he has.
Some of you may be saying, "but this is his third novel." Not exactly true. True, there are two books in the series before this one, and they are both called "A Gotrek and Felix Novel". However, those books are really short story compilations. With Trollslayer, this is more than obvious. Skavenslayer is less so because all the stories are tied to one another so closely as to make one big story, but I still hesitate to call it a novel. Daemonslayer is one big story, and it's everything you'd expect in a Slayer novel.
Present are Kings excellent characterization and over-the-top fantasy full of carnage and mayhem. In this book, Gotrek battles his toughest adversary to date and probably out of all the books; a Bloodthirster of Khorne (Greater Daemon of immense power). This certainly adds to the excitement and heightens the climax, but your left feeling like, "ok, now what?" Gotrek is now established as pretty much invincible. In the next book he fights a dragon, but so what. That shouldn't be a problem for him right?
My point it, as fun as this book is, it kinda detracts from the series. How much more can Gotrek acheive? Having Gotrek go on to slay Godly foe after Godly foe is going to get tiring in the same way Star Wars novels do. How many times can Luke, Han, and Leia save the galaxy? Don't get me wrong, I still love these books, but how much more can these two do and remain interesting? The scope of Daemonslayer is so huge and epic as it could easily serve as the ending of the series. Thankfully it doesn't, but my point is that the perhaps the scope of this tale was told too soon. The best Slayer story is still Wolfriders (found in Trollslayer) where a band of goblins is made every bit as threatening as an uber-daemon. In fact, it's the only story where Gotrek suffers a permanent wound; the loss of an eye.
The other problem is the direction Felix is taking. Sure it might be natural for Felix to become a hardened warrior in his travels with Gotrek, indeed he'd have to in order to stay alive, but it seems a little soon for that as well. It's also less interesting. Felix becomes more and more like Gotrek, and as cool as the slayer is, it's the contrast between the two that makes it interesting.
Fans of Gotrek and Felix won't be disappointed in this book (new readers need to start with Trollslayer). It's everything a Slayer novel should be, and it's much better than Skavenslayer. Props to Mr. King for successfully adapting his amazing adventures to long form.
Rating: 5
Summary: A delightful romp
Comment: Although this is the third installment in the series (after "Trollslayer" and "Skavenslayer"), this was my first introduction to the dynamic adventuring team of Felix and Gotrek. Felix is a human youth who has pledged himself to follow on and record the daring suicidal quest of his partner Gotrek, a dwarf who has done something so bad in his life that he has sworn himself to become a "slayer" and die in glorious battle against evil in redemption.
I bought this book in an airport bookshop because I was going to be taking a long and dull plane ride and wanted some light reading. I ended up enjoying this book so much that I could not put it down and found my flight was over in no time.
This book continues plot threads begun in previous installments such as the pesky Skaven who continue to dog their trail. But this one takes the wayward pair into the deepest, darkest perils of that grim and foreboding land stretching out endlessly to the north of the Warhammer world, the Chaos Wastes (I personally like to think of it as the southern edge of Mordor ;) )
This book is perfect for those like myself who could never get enough of Tolkien and longed to visit again that world populated by dwarves, elves and dark and evil creatures. If you're looking for "serious" fantasy with deep character development and profound messages you should probably look elsewhere, but if it's entertainment you want, this book delivers. (Don't want to spoil anything, so just let me say that this book had a great climax.)
I think that this work succeeds because King has no pretensions and does not try to make it anything more than what it is -- pure, enjoyable entertainment.
I'm happy to see that further adventures of this fun pair and their indispensible sidekick, fellow slayer dwarf Snorri Nosebiter (love that name!) are continuing to come out, and I look forward to reading them all.
Rating: 5
Summary: Second "beast" book in the series :)
Comment: Set in the Warhammer Universe, the series features Gotrek and Felix. Gotrek is a dwarf seeking a noble death as a slayer, the price paid by a dwarf who has done something terribly wrong. Felix, a journalist saved by Gotrek, follows the slayer, aiding him, chronicling his way to his noble doom. In this novel, they face a series of adventures full of blood and gore, full of battles and confrontations.
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Title: Beastslayer by William King ISBN: 0743411617 Publisher: Games Workshop Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Skavenslayer: Gotrek and Felix by William King ISBN: 0671783858 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Giantslayer by William King, Marc Gascoigne ISBN: 0743443462 Publisher: Games Workshop Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Vampireslayer by William King ISBN: 0743411684 Publisher: Games Workshop Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Trollslayer by William King ISBN: 0671783734 Publisher: Games Workshop Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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