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2.0 out of 5 stars
A book of two parts,
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This review is from: Star of Erengrad (Warhammer Fantasy) (Warhammer Novels) (Mass Market Paperback)
It's a story about a group of adventurers (main character Stefan Kumansky) escorting a princess to the Kislevite city of Erengrad where she is to be wed to a prince. The namesake of the novel (the Star of Erengrad) is this relic that plays an important role in the tale (a role I will not mention here so as not to give away important plot elements). The first part of the novel (roughly, the first 100 pages or so) is pretty good. We are introduced to the characters, the adventure begins in haste, and things are off to a good start. Until the time arrives to introduce to the reader to the characters on the side of "Chaos". At this point, the novel shifts back and forth between good guys and bad guys, and the pace slows terribly, the characters on the chaos side aren't that interesting, and main character (Stefan Kumansky) literally drops off the radar screen. He becomes so unimportant in the development of the story that his sudden appearance near the end begs the question of where he's been the whole time. The ending itself, though a good ending for the novel, was a bit too sappy for my tastes. So, it's a book of two parts: one good, one bad, but overall it's a bit unbalanced.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Dull and predictable,
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This review is from: Star of Erengrad (Warhammer Fantasy) (Warhammer Novels) (Mass Market Paperback)
This book has a loose tie-in with the Storm of Chaos, which was the only thing which kept me at it.The plotting is slow and ponderous. It takes a full third of the book to really get the main plot going and the pace doesn't really manage to pick up from there. Even the combat scenes are dull, which is a sad state for a Warhammer novel. I found none of the characters especially likeable or interesting (the Kislev princess is annoying, the others simply uninspired). My favorite is one of the secondary characters Petr Kuragin, but it is too little to save this book. The fall of Alexei is both predictable and incredibly heavy-handed. Actually, much of the plotting is heavy-handed - events seem happen because the author wants them to happen. The characters succeed or fail not through their own strengths or weaknesses, but because the author has scripted it that way. Read it if your are stuck in an snow-in airport, otherwise there is better Warhammer fiction out there.
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