Warhammer Mini-Book
This book was published to coincide with the releasing of the 8th edition of warhammer fantasy battlegame. It was a nice and easing reading. The plot was simple enough. Ratchitt is an engineer for Clan Skyre and it's discovering of a weapon that could disable some ancient defences in the Island of Blood. After discovering he sets to make an rather unfriendly agreement with one part of the Clan Klaw led by Warlord Verminkin. The clanlord would have a advantage against the other part led by chieftain Spinetail. After making these agreement he made another unfriendlier agreement with three grey seers. Things were not going his way.
In the island we are presented with the defences Kortharion, an elf mage; Kalaer an old defender and leader of Sword Masters of Hoeth; and the reserves the Lothern Sea Guard; another mage called Caladris and a prince on griffon.
The chapters follow either the elves or the skaven with a couple of them another ancient race. I learn a lot about the elves ancestors and the twisted, backstabbing, unforgiving and other not so "honourable" adjectives of the skaven society.
The ending was a pyrrhic victory for the elves but predictable.It had some quite fighting images. Most of the second half of the book was a big fight sequence. It was quite good to read this. Quite different from other types of fantasy out there; this warhammer book is like a fantasy-battle centered book. Quite good. A good staring point to anyone trying to read some more novels in the warhammer world.
