paulopaperbooksonly's review against another edition
4.0
The world of warhammer is one of the most ingenious and interesting out there. It got history and a different feeling from other shared worlds like forgotten realms or dragonlance. This world is grim/dark to the core. But not this one.
This is Blood Bowl. It's set in the warhammer world but in a paralel world (kind of) where divergences are set in a game of American Football but with brutality that would put to the shame some world wars.
Here there are no rules, you've got a pig bladder and must put it in the other side of the field. That's it. Unfortunally there are really hungry dudes in the other side that will do anything (and I mean anything) to stop you.
In this tale we follow Dirk 'Dunk' Hoffnung rise from a swordsman to the quarterback of a team. Quite interesting reading. I really must read the following three books.
This is Blood Bowl. It's set in the warhammer world but in a paralel world (kind of) where divergences are set in a game of American Football but with brutality that would put to the shame some world wars.
Here there are no rules, you've got a pig bladder and must put it in the other side of the field. That's it. Unfortunally there are really hungry dudes in the other side that will do anything (and I mean anything) to stop you.
In this tale we follow Dirk 'Dunk' Hoffnung rise from a swordsman to the quarterback of a team. Quite interesting reading. I really must read the following three books.
cwebb's review against another edition
5.0
Sehr nett, aber nicht so gut wie die Bücher: http://www.weberseite.at/buecher/blood-bowl-killer-contract/
b1llz1lla's review against another edition
4.0
Book number three of 2005: Blood Bowl by Matt Forbeck.
Matt is a friend of mine; in fact, I hate him for having already written this book at just about the same time I had the idea to pitch a Blood Bowl novel to Games Workshop myself. Feh.
Anyway, it's a fun read. Matt does a great job of capturing the feel of Blood Bowl, which is a board game where you play a game very similar to football, using miniatures of trolls, dwarves, evlves and goblins as players. The novel is set in the Warhammer World of Games Workshop, where Blood Bowl is the fantasy world's equivalent of our world's NFL, with superstar players, slick agents, ridiculous salaries and a casual disregard for life that would make Al Davis proud. Matt achieves a very solid level of success at blending a fantasy novel with a sports novel. You care about the characters, though a frustrating trope of "the hero is framed and has to prove his innocence" crops up a few too many times in this one book.
I guess my summary would be this: I'm glad I started reading Blood Bowl after the second in the series (Dead Ball) had already hit store shelves; that way I won't have long to wait for the third one after I finish the second. I enjoyed it thoroughly and found it a satisfying read, and am well into Dead Ball with much the same result.
Anyway, thanks Matt for stealing my idea before I had even thought of it.
Matt is a friend of mine; in fact, I hate him for having already written this book at just about the same time I had the idea to pitch a Blood Bowl novel to Games Workshop myself. Feh.
Anyway, it's a fun read. Matt does a great job of capturing the feel of Blood Bowl, which is a board game where you play a game very similar to football, using miniatures of trolls, dwarves, evlves and goblins as players. The novel is set in the Warhammer World of Games Workshop, where Blood Bowl is the fantasy world's equivalent of our world's NFL, with superstar players, slick agents, ridiculous salaries and a casual disregard for life that would make Al Davis proud. Matt achieves a very solid level of success at blending a fantasy novel with a sports novel. You care about the characters, though a frustrating trope of "the hero is framed and has to prove his innocence" crops up a few too many times in this one book.
I guess my summary would be this: I'm glad I started reading Blood Bowl after the second in the series (Dead Ball) had already hit store shelves; that way I won't have long to wait for the third one after I finish the second. I enjoyed it thoroughly and found it a satisfying read, and am well into Dead Ball with much the same result.
Anyway, thanks Matt for stealing my idea before I had even thought of it.
civreader's review against another edition
4.0
Great fun for anyone who knows the game, or anyone who wants a humorous bunch of stories that transplant NFL onto the Warhammer World. It's a blast.
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