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A review by todd_bissell
Matahermanos, Nº 1 by David Guymer
2.0
DNF.
The first of the David Guymer books..., and I'm not impressed.
The Gotrek & Felix (aka G&F) books have never been light and breezy (hell, what is in the Warhammer and Warhammer:40K universes?). But his take on the G&F line is so very dark and and so very grim, and his style and pacing is so sloggish, that I quickly found myself just not all that excited to keep on cracking this book open.
Kat in previous books was a well-rounded character, with lots of strengths and weaknesses and quirks. But here, old sick Kat has been relegated to a mere plot device: "Felix, go somewhere to fight to heal your wife, or else she dies". A rather hamfisted D&D-style motivation hook, eh?
Ulrika is back, and this time being all vampire'y outside of her usual city haunts. And like clockwork, here comes Felix's standard "I am torn between loving the old Ulrika and the new Kat" humming and hawing that he does every few novels. Felix here is a drunken and somewhat broken old man that I honestly didn't care much about. Him both pining for his younger glory days with Gotrek and his round-robin circle of love interests could have worked -- but here, it doesn't.
Gotrek: aside from introductory snippets (flashbacks?), I didn't even see him before I gave up on this book.
The *only* storyline that I could possibly give two Skaven asses about was Snorri's tale -- forced to stay sober and get healthy for his Slayer quest to finally resolve itself.
Maybe this is a slow burn, and I hit the ejection seat too soon. But no, sorry, my to-read stack is too high for sloggy and unappealing mush.
The first of the David Guymer books..., and I'm not impressed.
The Gotrek & Felix (aka G&F) books have never been light and breezy (hell, what is in the Warhammer and Warhammer:40K universes?). But his take on the G&F line is so very dark and and so very grim, and his style and pacing is so sloggish, that I quickly found myself just not all that excited to keep on cracking this book open.
Kat in previous books was a well-rounded character, with lots of strengths and weaknesses and quirks. But here, old sick Kat has been relegated to a mere plot device: "Felix, go somewhere to fight to heal your wife, or else she dies". A rather hamfisted D&D-style motivation hook, eh?
Ulrika is back, and this time being all vampire'y outside of her usual city haunts. And like clockwork, here comes Felix's standard "I am torn between loving the old Ulrika and the new Kat" humming and hawing that he does every few novels. Felix here is a drunken and somewhat broken old man that I honestly didn't care much about. Him both pining for his younger glory days with Gotrek and his round-robin circle of love interests could have worked -- but here, it doesn't.
Gotrek: aside from introductory snippets (flashbacks?), I didn't even see him before I gave up on this book.
The *only* storyline that I could possibly give two Skaven asses about was Snorri's tale -- forced to stay sober and get healthy for his Slayer quest to finally resolve itself.
Maybe this is a slow burn, and I hit the ejection seat too soon. But no, sorry, my to-read stack is too high for sloggy and unappealing mush.