Action packed but too long novel

Overall a decent book, but I had my issues. In general the narrator is great and the story is a 50:50 mix of action and plot which was good. Interesting but not necessarily likable characters with understandable motives. The whole Stormcast memory loss by death thing works good and the plot makes sense. What I didn‘t like that much was the action which was quite repetetive (chainwhips, chainwhips, chainwhips, ……,and then a big monster). Tonally the Book is very gritty to the point thatI would say too dark for my taste (and I liked even the endtimes where eveyone *spoiler* dies in the end ). I understand that the Skaven have to be portrayed as a thread, but they simply lost all their flavour and just got very mean and very disgusting. Never the less a reccomendation

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Great for Stormcast, not great for Skaven,way too long

This book does a phenomenal job of showing how cool and tragic the Stormcast Eternals are. Especially the new units like the Reclusians with their memory issues are very compelling. The main character, a human memorian, is great too, dealing with a ton of trauma. The Skaven are portrayed as very scary and a serious threat, but they are too serious. You could replace them with Chaos cultists or Goblins and nothing would really change. The humor, insane egos and constant infighting that make Skaven so memorable, are barely in this book. And the entire book is way too long, this did not need to be over 14 hours. Because of that, the pacing can be really slow and the characters repeat themselves constantly in the later parts of the book. The word "hope" was used so much it became quite annoying. Overall, its a fantastic Stormcast book with lots of quite disturbing horror moments, but a 3rd of it should have been cut. If you like the Skaven as a serious horror villain, you will really like them here. If you want the more personality, classic side of them, read "Skavenslayer" by William King.

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Just a nice fantasy novel, dark and sorrowful.

The book and narration surprised me with the quality, the narrative starts a bit too slow, but picks up a few chapters in and keeps it up until the end. Very good.

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Memories

The book is much better then other Black Library titles which get released with a new game edition. Especially the idea how the Stormcast suffer from memory and personality loss is described here very well.

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