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Title: Death's Legacy
Title: Death's Legacy
Series:
Warhammer: Blood on the Reik #3
Author:
Sandy Mitchell
Rating:
3 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Fantasy
Pages:
416
Format:
Scanned Digital Edition
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Synopsis: Spoilers |
Rudi and Hanna are on the run, yet again. They head to another big city so Hanna can attempt to join another magic college and Rudi can work. Hanna gets turned away, pretty much goes darkside and joins her mother. Rudi gets captured by the witch hunter and imprisoned at a major temple to Sigmar. There he learns his heritage and finds out that his own parents were going to use him as a vessel to hold a demon prince, only the ritual was aborted. Now Rudi has a demon entwined with his own soul.
Now Rudi must work with those who were
trying to kill him to free his soul. He must not die or the demon
will be freed and destroy the continent. Meanwhile Hanna has joined
one of the dark gods and has her own plans for Rudi.
Rudi survives betrayal on all levels
and ends up being entombed alive with a ritual that will keep his
soul attached to his dead body, thus denying the demon access to it.
The book ends with Rudi contemplating the coming hundreds of years as
he has to lie in the tomb and moulder away.
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My Thoughts: Spoilers |
I went and looked up some Wiki info for the Warhammer novels. They have ended and apparently it is because the dark gods win and everything is destroyed in the final series or two. So that is the tone of everything. Even if the good guys can hold off the forces of chaos, it doesn't matter because we the readers know the ultimate end.
This
was not a good series to get introduced to the Warhammer universe.
The story was good and the ideas were neat, but my goodness,
Mitchell's writing was technically correct, but more time was given
describing their journey (in which nothing happens by the way) than
when things were hopping. Long stretches of boringness that should
have been excised from the book by a good editor. VERY pedestrian
writing.
I saw Hanna's
betrayal coming from book 1, but I did not expect it to take the
shape of the game of gods that it did. I was expecting something more
personal but this worked pretty good. Hanna wanted Rudi dead to
release the demon, which would have been weakened by the priests of
Sigmar. Hanna and company would then have swooped in, killed the
demon, gotten major kudo power points for killing a demon and that
power would have allowed them to take over the temple of Sigmar in
the name of their god. Which would have weakened Sigmar and
strengthened their god. But reading chapter upon chapter of Rudi
doing research while in prison to get to that? Boring. I thought
about giving this 2 ½ stars but the ending pulled it up that half
star.
Finally, the covers
for this trilogy. They've looked really cool. They look like what I
want to be reading about in a universe called Warhammer. Scary
looking, bad ass beings of power with huge weapons. If the story
contained within had only lived up to the bar set by the covers. I
feel cheated.
I've got my next
Warhammer trilogy that I'm going to read, but I wish I could find
someone who could point me to a good beginning point.
★★★☆☆
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