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Title: Thanquol's Doom
Series: Warhammer: Thanquol & Boneripper #3
Author: C.L.Werner
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 304
Format: Digital Edition
Title: Thanquol's Doom
Series: Warhammer: Thanquol & Boneripper #3
Author: C.L.Werner
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 304
Format: Digital Edition
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Synopsis:
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Due to Skaven
politics, Thanquol's success at staying alive and reporting the death
of the conjurer from his previous expedition is now a mark against
him. Everyone wishes he had died so as to not remind them of the
expedition at all.
Now Thanquol must
“lead” an expedition against a Dwarven stronghold. He is allied,
this time around, with the skaven scientists/alchemists and they have
supplied him with a mechanical Boneripper built from the remains of
his original one. Unfortunately for Thanquol, he is saddled with
another Grey Seer who has secret instructions of his own. And of
course, the Alchemists have their own hidden, true agenda.
Turns out Thanquol
is simply a diversion for the dwarves to focus on while the
alchemists and the other grey seer do their own thing. The grey seer
is going after a powerful magical item, the paw of something or other
and the alchemists are building a Doomsphere, meant to destroy the
dwarven stronghold totally and completely. The fact that it might
destroy the skaven city as well is just incidental.
Thanquol schemes
how to make use of both of these agendas. He ends up releasing a
chaos demon of almost uncontrollable power, by accident, and the
doomsphere destroys itself due to the dwarves machinations.
The book ends with
Thanquol still alive and figuring out how to survive this latest
debacle.
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My
Thoughts:
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This was a decent end to this trilogy. Since this was a spinoff of
the Gotrex & Felix series I wonder if Thanquol ends up being
killed off in that series? As a skaven, he certainly deserves it!
I've been considering why I enjoyed this Warhammer trilogy as much as
I did while I haven't really enjoyed the others I've read. Part of it
is the humor. Werner does a fantastic job of showing how cowardly,
two-faced and constantly backstabbing the Skaven are and it is just
really hard to get depressed when reading about their antics. It's
like watching a clown car at the circus. The humor was ironic in
nature, with Werner showcasing the worst of the skaven nature through
Thanquol but it was so ridiculous that I couldn't help but laugh.
Much like the clown car I mentioned or seeing clowns beat the crap
out of each other. Objectively, it is unpleasant, but in the right
situation, it is great humor. It mitigated the depressing side of the
Warhammer universe. In comparison, Werner wrote some of this book
from the dwarves perspective and my goodness, now THAT was
depressing. A Book of Grudges, Berserkers who live only to die in
battle, a declining population due to birth rates and attrition? Ugh,
ugh and ugh.
I was about to give up on the whole Warhammer universe after my run
in with Tyrion
& Teclis. Thankfully, this turned things around so at
least I'll try another Warhammer trilogy. Bookwraiths
has reviewed another Warhammer trilogy by Werner and if my
next choice (the Legend of Sigmar trilogy) doesn't pan out, I might
try that. But if I hit 2 stinkers of a series in a row, or they are
just too depressing for me, I'll probably be done with Warhammer.
★★★☆½
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