jeffd's review against another edition
3.0
Giantslayer - 4/5
Loved the insight into the Old Ones, the Slann, Albion, and Teclis. The novel does get bogged down in the middle, and the pacing is pretty weird - William King has a habit of using 200 pages to build up, and then using 10 for the entire climax/resolution. The titular giant makes an appearance for about 2 pages. If you're a big WH lore fan it's definitely worth reading, but be ready for a bit of a slog.
Redhand's Daughter - 4/5
Orcslayer - 3/5
A jarring departure in tone from the previous books, which I suppose should be expected given that this marks the point when Wiliam King stepped away from G&F and other Black Library authors took over, but there are some really strange and obvious errors here that should have been caught by an editor. Things like forgetting that Gotrek only has one eye ("Gotrek closed his eyes and then opened them again"), the Chaos-corrupted orcs being invulnerable to Gotrek's anti-Chaos starmetal axe, obvious typos (viscous instead of vicious), Felix suddenly being in his late-40s/early-50s but still swashbuckling like a young man, Felix's enchanted dragon-sword that largely makes him immune to fear being gone and replaced by a regular blade, and the list goes on. The pacing is also way off - frankly, the entire first half of the book could have been chopped out, and you'd still have the exact same story.
If you can ignore the weird retcons and extreme change in tone compared to the previous novels, and if you don't mind slogging through the first half of the story, things do pick up in the second half of the book and the story becomes very interesting. That's really the saving grace here that makes this worth reading and brings it up to a 3/5, otherwise I'd say to just skip this novel entirely.
This would have been a decent Warhammer Fantasy novella with different protagonists, but probably should not have been a Gotrek & Felix novel.
Manslayer - 3/5
Loved the insight into the Old Ones, the Slann, Albion, and Teclis. The novel does get bogged down in the middle, and the pacing is pretty weird - William King has a habit of using 200 pages to build up, and then using 10 for the entire climax/resolution. The titular giant makes an appearance for about 2 pages. If you're a big WH lore fan it's definitely worth reading, but be ready for a bit of a slog.
Redhand's Daughter - 4/5
Orcslayer - 3/5
A jarring departure in tone from the previous books, which I suppose should be expected given that this marks the point when Wiliam King stepped away from G&F and other Black Library authors took over, but there are some really strange and obvious errors here that should have been caught by an editor. Things like forgetting that Gotrek only has one eye ("Gotrek closed his eyes and then opened them again"), the Chaos-corrupted orcs being invulnerable to Gotrek's anti-Chaos starmetal axe, obvious typos (viscous instead of vicious), Felix suddenly being in his late-40s/early-50s but still swashbuckling like a young man, Felix's enchanted dragon-sword that largely makes him immune to fear being gone and replaced by a regular blade, and the list goes on. The pacing is also way off - frankly, the entire first half of the book could have been chopped out, and you'd still have the exact same story.
If you can ignore the weird retcons and extreme change in tone compared to the previous novels, and if you don't mind slogging through the first half of the story, things do pick up in the second half of the book and the story becomes very interesting. That's really the saving grace here that makes this worth reading and brings it up to a 3/5, otherwise I'd say to just skip this novel entirely.
This would have been a decent Warhammer Fantasy novella with different protagonists, but probably should not have been a Gotrek & Felix novel.
Manslayer - 3/5
gambituk's review against another edition
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
cwebb's review against another edition
4.0
Gotrek und Felix machen sich weiterhin wenig Freunde dafür umso mehr Feinde: http://www.weberseite.at/buecher/gotrek-felix-the-third-omnibus/
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