And then you get our first picture of the book and quite rightly its of this part. The battle that takes place is equally good and the sense of confusion and drama is very well written. This is when King is at his best, its a great set up and the atmosphere is really tense and creepy. This being a warhammer novel, guess what the dead show up. To be fair going by the start Felix nearly had in this novel he deserves it. I guess ladies must love the threat of the walking dead. So despite all this political intrigue and the fact they are camped next to the haunted hills Felix has time to go out for a walk with Kirsten and on only what i think is the second date they have sex. So they journey on and of course end up in some haunted hills and it is here that Manfred explains the Von Diehl curse and also it is revealed that the Barons right man, Dieter, is his bastard offspring with Frau Winter, who resents Manfred for being named heir over her own son. Turns out that no one will let them in as they are an armed force and too dangerous for any of the local rulers. They then arrive at a town and Felix is nominated to parley with the guards. I sense some intrigue as well as action in this one. Kirsten is apprenticed to Frau Winter the witch/healer who resents that the Doctor is not assisting her as he is busy with young Manfred. At first we deal with the aftermath of a wolf rider attack where we see some of the friction between the leading characters of the exiled people. The journey is very eventful, which is just as well otherwise it would make a terrible story. Of course the trappers they fought are the scouts for the force but Felix makes the acquaintance of the Barons heir, his nephew Manfred von Diehl who Felix knows of as a brilliant but blasphemous playwright. So our heroes sign up to the barons forces so Felix can spend time with Kirsten and Gotrek doesn't have to walk.
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I like the tie ins to other stories in the early warhammer novels, it gives the sense of a conjoined world and not just a series of isolated stories. In a nice touch it is reveled these exiled people are the people of Gottfried Von Diehl who would be the brother of Kurt from the short story laughter of the dark gods. The girl he saves is called Kirsten and Felix is enamored with her and persuades Gotrek to join her people on their journey to the border princes. Funnily enough Felix is not up for this and a brawl ensues and is saved by the appearance of the Trollslayer Gotrek. A lot of adult themes in early warhammer novels, i worry about the world the authors grew up in. I'll have this pretty boy." So the first page into Wolf Riders and we are dealing with what will forever be the greatest threat Felix faces, being sodomized by a mountain man. When i come off the mountains anything looks good. However one of them takes a shine to Felix instead, "Aye, Lars, right pretty he talks, and all that nice golden hair, like cornstalks. So we rejoin the story with Felix in some out of the way tavern where he is defending a girl from the attentions of three trappers with evil intentions. For the first time in this series of this dubious project we revisit some existing characters as this is the second installment from Gotrek and Felix and follows on from the events in Geheimnisnacht. In a shock decision from Editor David Pringle he has decided to lead with the Title Story! That's why he gets his name on it, by making tough out of the box decisions like that. And the last one i can find is the result of the previous two covers getting it together one night after one too many drinks and nine months later have a child which has features from both of them.
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