Confused writing

Jonathan Keeble provides an excellent performance as always, and tries hard to carry this story but sadly its not enough.

At one point, Felix is introspective and thinks to himself that he missed the camaraderie, I laughed then, as I still miss it. It doesn't exist in this book. Guymer has done a lot of prep work and research, he tries to tie in every facet of every character from the past series but missing the the trees for the forest he utterly failed to understand the mood and atmosphere of the Gotrek & Felix series. The humour is gone, the reluctant heroism is gone, the sense of adventure is gone. Characters are warped, instead of being gruff but amenable Gotrek here is just an asshole, instead of being reluctant but noble Felix is a self absorbed wretch. Kat is reduced to a plot device. Ulrika's true mission was to risk doom and damnation to tell someone to hurry up. Its absurd.

The only character that was done well was Snorri, but even then his storyline was confused with flashbacks coming out of nowhere, to show his state of mind, I know, but still confusing especially because there is no time to breath in this story. It rushes ahead from one battle to the next, constantly. Its exhausting.

The main thing that David Guymer failed to understand and subsequently confused himself into believing is that because the setting is grim dark then the story had to be as well. Again, no. I honestly don't understand how he could have clearly done so much research on these characters and completely missed the tone.

I don't recommend this book. Skavenslayer and Daemonslayer have just been released as audiobooks on Audible. They're far, far better. I recommend those instead.

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Slow start but an emotional ending

The first third of this book was slow for me but once the story unfolds and the gang get back together, the book gets into it's stride. The ending, I did not expect that ending! As for the performance, Jonathan Keeble does Stirling work on all the parts played, he is Gotrek 👍

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The saddest book of the series

A mandatory read for people who think the best books of the series are Demonslayer and/or Dragonslayer

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Pure perfection

Loved it. From start to finnish. Hopefully there are many more books to Come

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A trip into the world of Warhammer

I love how the world is brought to life by Keable's voice! the characters were great, and the story was gripping; horrifying, funny and poignant

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The beginning of the end

long term fan, this is a great return to form, even if it's almost over

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Disappointing

I loved the Gotrek and Felix novels as a teenager, and was excited to see some new ones appearing as audio books, but very disappointed with this one.
Firstly - the voice given to Snorri about made me turn off at the start! Not at all how I imagined it should be, a big, dumb dwarf and he sounds like a nasal snivelling cliche seedy guy from a sitcom. The story flicks about so much as well it's difficult to keep up, am I in the present, or is this now a flashback, or a dream? There's also one section that literally copy/pastes half a chapter from earlier and brazenly repeats it word for word! Suppose that's one way to hit your word count! But if you're going to reference something from earlier like that at least change the wording a bit, otherwise that's just down right lazy writing.
Also not a fan of Gotreks change in personality, yes he's always been gruff and that was his charm, he's actually been made into a bit of an a**hole here which was disappointing, I wasn't rooting for him like I used to do.
Will still try the sequel and hope it redeems itself a bit...

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Now that's great story ,tough listen as it get bit sad

As usual the story is really good, One of my favourite characters came to an end which was a tug on the heart strings

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pointless

why are there two books missing.its to big a story jump to continue the books are good just doesn't make sense

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Great listen

Loved the book, Genuinely couldn't stop listening. (tho, I do wish Kat was in it more) the performance was fantastic throughout.

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