painterz 's review for:

I Am Slaughter by Dan Abnett

1.0

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Okay, here's the problem. It's short. Very short. This is novella-length masquerading as a full length novel. (At more than full-length novel prices.)

And it just stops. It reads almost certainly like part 2 of I am Slaughter will be released at some point in the future, as another more than full price novel. And it will basically be the second part of this manuscript.

I feel ripped off.


The prose was okay I suppose, but the structure was terrible, due to the aforementioned, half a novel problem. It has a beginning and half of a middle.

And there's also the problem that really, the Orks are a bit shit. There's a weird bit towards the end where it's observed that the Orks are mankinds most terrible fearsome horrifying foe mankind has ever faced! And then the next paragraph it's talking about how they're sort of a joke.

Anyway, this novel, launching the series, probably quite sensibly has very little to do with the Orks. Which makes it a lot better.


But. Yes. Leaving your consumer feeling ripped off is... not a good place to be in.