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3.0
CL Werner’s fourth Age of Sigmar novel, The Tainted Heart is a tragic tale of two witch hunters – or agents of the Order of Azyr – bound together by conflicting ties of love, loyalty and faith. Amidst the crawling dunes of Droost in the Realm of Chamon, Esselt and Talorcan (previously seen in The Witch Takers) seek to stop an insidious cult of Nurgle from spreading any further. A tragic discovery drives Talorcan to pursue their mission with a personal sense of vengeance in mind, despite Esselt’s warnings, but it soon becomes clear that the pair’s pain is only just beginning.
Told from a god’s eye perspective there’s plenty of opportunity for Werner to tell us about the pain these characters are suffering, but it doesn't quite get under their skins or really understand their history. The whole story feels a bit like that, in fact – there’s lots to enjoy, especially in the final third of the book as the tone changes a little and things become ever more desperate, but it never quite reaches the gravitas and impact that it needs, and Werner’s writing even feels just a touch simpler and less developed than usual.
Read the full review at https://www.trackofwords.com/2018/08/06/the-tainted-heart-cl-werner/
Told from a god’s eye perspective there’s plenty of opportunity for Werner to tell us about the pain these characters are suffering, but it doesn't quite get under their skins or really understand their history. The whole story feels a bit like that, in fact – there’s lots to enjoy, especially in the final third of the book as the tone changes a little and things become ever more desperate, but it never quite reaches the gravitas and impact that it needs, and Werner’s writing even feels just a touch simpler and less developed than usual.
Read the full review at https://www.trackofwords.com/2018/08/06/the-tainted-heart-cl-werner/
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