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utterly stupid ending

Revisado: 12-31-22

it's tricky sometimes to make these sorts of stories work in a greater narrative universe, but a good start is to not make an OP Mary Sue villain who is literally a better necromancer than Nagash, and the protagonists such poor tacticians they destroy a major narrative city through not informing the defenders of an ensuing invasion and decide go just Scooby-Doo it themselves.

...unless the author was supposed to be writing Broken Realms Briomedes.

the writing style was also super repetitive, and predictable. if you took a sip of beer every time "slime," "vomit," "dead" or "blood" was said, you'd still die of alcohol poisoning.
the first parts were not great, but the final act(s) are si wretchedly stupid I want my time back.

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Sadly not one of the good ones

Revisado: 11-28-21

This story makes the character of Alister Caine worse than just reading his book profiles and the snippets from game books. It gets details flatout wrong on lore (Caine is referred to as "now a warcaster, promoted to lieutenant and leading some blabla", when a significant trait of his character is that he is one of the very few Cygnaran warcasters to have his rank of captain revoked; tremendous leniency is afforded tye rare warcasters, and Caine is a character forced to murder and assasinate people (enemy and "ally") often enough that he earns a spot on that dishonor roll, in spite of his qualified immunity as a warcaster. He is an anomaly, a trouble-maker, and a disgraced character, fallen from grace.
That's one of the most fundamental character details and the author got it wrong.
He was also trained under series anti-villain Magnus (foreshadowing his clouded outlook and history), but the author apprentices him under someone else for some reason. While skipping the entire process.

More damningly, the story is just boring and mediocre to hear. New people may not know that info or care, but there isn't much to recommend to a setting neophyte. Caine is portrayed as largely a dope who is easily manipulated by anybody willing to mention his father, which throws Caine off enough emotionally to become clay in their hands.

This is a character who lives a double-life as a duelist-provocateur/gunslinger assassin/wizard/troop commander/vagabond, fighting interesting foes in interesting warzones, and he somehow ends up an easily manipulated slack-jawed bland guy.
Additionally, there are a lot of arbitrary time skips and an attempt to start us off with an "in medias res" assassination of some random dude, making the whole thing kind of leading up to a pointless "and then Caine shot the guy".

I wish I had nicer stuff to say here. There are fortunately much better books in this series to read. Please read Blood of Kings instead. it didn't set out to be about Caine, but it's still a better Caine book than this one is.

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Short and sweet

Revisado: 10-15-21

Too short, but still good. only complaint is the narrator not mentioning his second death after alluding to it.

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A great story!

Revisado: 09-29-21

I loved this book. It was fun to have most of the timeline of Warmachine laid out and expanded upon.

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A silly fun niche book for warmachine fans

Revisado: 08-05-21

Nothing truly outstanding, and probably a little impenetrable for people not invested in the setting, but thoroughly enjoyable for those who already are. a short prequel to the Nemo vs. Aurora story

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Really fun story, great performances

Revisado: 05-06-21

I really liked this one. IK Ghostbusters/supernatural horror. it requires perhaps a little investment in the setting to appreciate, since many concepts and backgrounds are assumed familiar, and it is essentially a prelude to the release of the Grymkin faction in the game.

It is also a story that stands enjoyable enough through likable characters and tense atmosphere. It brought the events to life in a way that made some arguably questionable events in the larger story feel more grounded and grave.

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Excellent performances

Revisado: 04-05-21

A fun but silly story very well acted. Some of the plot was a bit repetitive, but that may be expected from a game module

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Mostly decent

Revisado: 01-05-21

Some of the stories were kind of awful, bit most were fairly decent, and a few were pretty good

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Really enjoyable!

Revisado: 10-29-20

Two of these stories were actually one larger story, but a great introduction to the world setting. The other two were short genre-fiction, mystery and war-fantasy respectively. One was grounded and showed us the daily life, and the other was a bit more over-the-top and gave us an idea of how fantastic the setting can be; Tanyel Two-shot seems a lot more powerful than the other (official) protagonists, and battles a 5000-strong army, magical mutants and deadly sorcerors with wits, guerrilla tactics, and copious amounts of gunpowder - which for a Powder Mage is both spell medium and basically arcane cocaine. Alongside him is his irregulars and a band of wild knights in enchanted armor, and a bunch of last-minute militia. Classical high-fantasy tropes, but maintains realism amd plenty of character despite that.
Worth a read for the setting alone, but i bet the chatacters will grow on you as well! Pretty close to Iron Kingdoms thematically, if warjacks were never invented.

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Excellent Tzeentch-y fun

Revisado: 10-15-20

This book probably will not mean a ton to the average reader, but for fans of the Thousand Sons it was a delight.
My only real complaint was the silly voices used for the most afflicted if Chaos characters - but even then the delivery of the performer was quite good. The "how" was skillful; the "what" was a bit of a "why?!" 2 stars for direction, + 2 stars for performance skill.

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