Kinslayer

Warhammer Chronicles

By: David Guymer

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins

Publisher's Summary

Gotrek and Felix: unsung heroes of the Empire, or nothing more than common thieves and murderers? The truth perhaps lies somewhere in between and depends entirely upon whom you ask.... 

Once companions on the greatest of adventures, Gotrek and Felix have long since gone their separate ways. Felix, married and settled, secretly craves the excitement of his youth. And when the opportunity arises, Felix embarks upon what might be his final journey. As the chaos of the End Times engulfs Kislev, Gotrek and Felix are reunited, battling the hordes of the Troll King alongside Ulrika, Snorri and Max. But when long-hidden secrets are revealed, these old friends will be torn apart, and not all of them will leave Kislev alive.... 

©2018 Games Workshop Limited (P)2018 Games Workshop Limited

Solid prequel for the new Gotrek series

While not the original, better series Kinslayer and the soon to be rereleased Slayer are fine companions to begin making more sense of the Realmslayer arc beginning in Age of Sigmar. This is the first part in the story of both how the Old World was consumed and how Gotrek is even alive many millenia later. Much more high fantasy than the usual Gotrek and Felix sword and sorcery these are pretty quickly paced and larger in scope than most of the series so much of the charm just isnt there. As an ending to the series they were a mixed bag, as a prequel to current times in Age of Sigmar theyre just about perfect because they may be rediculous but not as confusing as AoS can get.

Very much hoping there is the original series coming to audio as theyre some of the best examples of fantasy writing under the entire Warhammer brand and if theyre gonna give Gotreks background we at least need the Grey Seers as well seeing as hes somehow still around in "current" times.

I had no idea what was going on but I loved it.

i am a 40k and HH fan. Never really got into Warhammer Fantasy or Age of Sigmar. But I know these two guys from seeing their art and stories. So when I saw the Kinslayer and Slayer books I thoguht they were a kind of rebooting the characters for AOS. Turns out I was totally wrong and most of the characters are from previous stories and tons of references to older stories so I barely had any idea of what was going on the whole time...but it was still a fun listen. It is a great story and i am sure if you're a fan you'll love it. Jonathan Keeble is awesome. That guy could read the phonebook and I'd find it enthralling.

Yuck.

The beginning of the end for a great series that was clearly hastily wrapped up in favor of AoS stuff. I'm not one to not welcome change but this whole thing the "Twist" of the book, the bitterness of all of it is downright sad. The writing is good, and props to david for what was written and how it was done. Its just a limp hollow send off this way for a few characters. It doesn't make sense to me, and i wish it could have ended differently.

This book was amazing

We need more war hammer chronicle books I really wish they had all the gotrick and Felix books

Dont waste your money

Killed off some of my childhood heros so gw could make more money…… despicable…. More of gw executions of warhammer fantasy heros to make wake the age of blowhard

Another great Felix and Gotrek tale

Keeble's performance is great. Only parts I didn't care for were for some of the flashbacks. No spoilers, the ending is worth it.

awsome

awesome book. love gotrek and snorri. love dwarves in general cant wait for the others.

just an epic, pure epic.

SNORRI. SNORRI. one of the best side characters ever. just an amazing story. It really ties it all together, not the way you want but the way you know it has to be. the dark world of sigmar.

Spoilers

Don't read if you haven't listened to this story yet.
Oh man where to begin. You can tell that this is the beging of the end from a mile away. However the execution is masterfully done.

The ending of this book, made me stop everything I was doing and listen. I don't think a peice of fiction has made me tear up that much since I had to read Where the Red Fern Grows in elementary school. Snorri Nosebiter has been my favorite character since his first appearance in Daemon Slayer. His death doesn't feel like just another expendable character's death, it's like having your childhood dog, put down due to old age. I highly suggest that you find a place to sob while listening to that part.

great follow up

love the book it was epic on how it describes the place of the adventures of gotex and feilx and the horror of the end time coming to the empire

Confused writing

Jonathan Keeble provides an excellent performance as always, and tries hard to carry this story but sadly its not enough.

At one point, Felix is introspective and thinks to himself that he missed the camaraderie, I laughed then, as I still miss it. It doesn't exist in this book. Guymer has done a lot of prep work and research, he tries to tie in every facet of every character from the past series but missing the the trees for the forest he utterly failed to understand the mood and atmosphere of the Gotrek & Felix series. The humour is gone, the reluctant heroism is gone, the sense of adventure is gone. Characters are warped, instead of being gruff but amenable Gotrek here is just an asshole, instead of being reluctant but noble Felix is a self absorbed wretch. Kat is reduced to a plot device. Ulrika's true mission was to risk doom and damnation to tell someone to hurry up. Its absurd.

The only character that was done well was Snorri, but even then his storyline was confused with flashbacks coming out of nowhere, to show his state of mind, I know, but still confusing especially because there is no time to breath in this story. It rushes ahead from one battle to the next, constantly. Its exhausting.

The main thing that David Guymer failed to understand and subsequently confused himself into believing is that because the setting is grim dark then the story had to be as well. Again, no. I honestly don't understand how he could have clearly done so much research on these characters and completely missed the tone.

I don't recommend this book. Skavenslayer and Daemonslayer have just been released as audiobooks on Audible. They're far, far better. I recommend those instead.

Slow start but an emotional ending

The first third of this book was slow for me but once the story unfolds and the gang get back together, the book gets into it's stride. The ending, I did not expect that ending! As for the performance, Jonathan Keeble does Stirling work on all the parts played, he is Gotrek 👍

The saddest book of the series

A mandatory read for people who think the best books of the series are Demonslayer and/or Dragonslayer

Pure perfection

Loved it. From start to finnish. Hopefully there are many more books to Come

A trip into the world of Warhammer

I love how the world is brought to life by Keable's voice! the characters were great, and the story was gripping; horrifying, funny and poignant

The beginning of the end

long term fan, this is a great return to form, even if it's almost over

Disappointing

I loved the Gotrek and Felix novels as a teenager, and was excited to see some new ones appearing as audio books, but very disappointed with this one.
Firstly - the voice given to Snorri about made me turn off at the start! Not at all how I imagined it should be, a big, dumb dwarf and he sounds like a nasal snivelling cliche seedy guy from a sitcom. The story flicks about so much as well it's difficult to keep up, am I in the present, or is this now a flashback, or a dream? There's also one section that literally copy/pastes half a chapter from earlier and brazenly repeats it word for word! Suppose that's one way to hit your word count! But if you're going to reference something from earlier like that at least change the wording a bit, otherwise that's just down right lazy writing.
Also not a fan of Gotreks change in personality, yes he's always been gruff and that was his charm, he's actually been made into a bit of an a**hole here which was disappointing, I wasn't rooting for him like I used to do.
Will still try the sequel and hope it redeems itself a bit...

The End.

if this journal is found, if the day was won, then remember this - here a Slayer lies.

Weirdly chaotic

Not sure if only due to listening (as opposed to reading), or the writing style being slightly different, jumping back and forth in time, but it does not feel like the early novels. Being in Snorri's head is interesting, but makes for a difficult to follow story. Same with how the different threads are pulled together, unusually difficult to follow, even compared to complex epic fantasy works.

Good story with added 40k author drivel..

The story was great and was tying up all the things I wanted it to…. However it suffers from the problem most 40k books do the authors feel the need to go on and on about details to the point of tedium which in turn takes away the easy read and easy listen aspect of the originals…