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Title: Beastslayer by William King ISBN: 0-7434-1161-7 Publisher: Games Workshop Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beastslayer is a beast
Comment: The Book "Beastslayer" by William King, talks about two great friends (Gotrek and Felix) who help various cities beat the chaos army. During the book, Felix has a girlfriend, Ulrika. Ulrika used to be in love with Max Schreiber, the town's young wizard. The book has many different points of veiw from many different people, including Bjorni, Ulli, Snorri, and Gotrek, three dwarves who are given the name the "slayers". Also, the other people are Max, Ulrika, Felix, and Ivan Petrovitch Straghov, who is Ulrika's father and a great veteran. Eventually, Ivan gets to Praag and helps everyone fight. The reason why every body is afraid of the chaos army is because of thier leader, Arek Deamonclaw, a fierce leader whos armor is all made of powerful metal that is near impossile to pierce with any ordinary sword. The chaos army outnumbered the people of Praag about 1/150. In the end, something really good happens, and something really bad happens.
Rating: 5
Summary: All of Chaos vs. People of Praag
Comment: The Book "Beastslayer" by William King, talks about two great friends (Gotrek and Felix) who help cities beat the chaos army. During the book, Felix has a girlfriend, Ulrika. Ulrika used to be in love with Max Schreiber, the town's young wizard. The book has many different points of veiw from many different people, including Bjorni, Ulli, Snorri, and Gotrek, three dwarves who are given the name the "slayers" of the world. Also, the othe people are Max, Ulrika, Felix, and Ivan Petrovitch Straghov, who is Ulrika's father and a great veteran. Eventually, Ivan gets to Praag and helps everyone fight. The reason why every body is of the chaos army is because of thier leader, Arek Deamonclaw, a feirce leader whos armor is all made of powerful metal that is near impossile to peirce with any ordinary sword. The chaos army outnumbered the people of Praag about 1/150. In the end, something really good happens, and something really bad happens.
Rating: 4
Summary: King finds new ways to up the ante!
Comment: After reading Daemonslayer and Dragonslayer, one is forced to wonder how can King find even more dangerous situations to put his characters in? Beastalayer answers that question.
With this book, King has fallen into a groove in making this a true novel series. The story is set in the ancient human city of Praag, that is under siege from the enormous army of Chaos King forshadowed in the last two books. Imagine the Battle of Helms Deep and you get a good idea. Only instead of being a small part of the story, the whole book is set during the siege. King's action oriented writing style is right at home here, and main protagonists Felix Jaeger and Gotrek Gurnisson are in their usual entertaining form.
There are only a few things that bother me with this book. 1) In Beastslayer, King seems to becoming a more narrative writer telling the stories with less and less dialogue. It loses some of its effect. 2) Felix is becoming more and more like Gotrek. Certainly this is understandable given the circumstances, but the dynamic between the two was interesting. 3) The book is over before it ends. By this I mean, King effectively communicates to you the villain is defeated before he's ever defeated. This takes away from any chance of a climactic ending. All the build up that Kings creates over three books suddenly loses steam. The theat disappates before it's even defeated. The ending itself isn't bad, just how it's presented. There's just NO drama. King should've taken cues from The Two Towers or his own great story Wolf Riders.
Oh well. What we are left with is still great fantasy pulp fiction. For some reason, I cannot get enough of Felix and Gotrek. I just hope King continues to improve.
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