Was this even a Gotrek book??

Gosh, where to begin so disappointing, I was really looking forward to the book, and it was poor on so many levels, how anyone can give this a 5 for story is mind blowing. The only thing that saved this book is the narrator. All the hard work fleshing Gotrek out in previous books was just thrown in the bin due to an argument with an elf!!! I felt the was a book the contained glimpses of Gotrek but did not feel like a Gotrek book... The female character story felt lacking in depth.

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start of a new campaign...

A really enjoyable listen interms of story and the narration is superb. it is true there is not a huge amount of gotrex at the start but that is similar to past novels such as skavenslayer which had he greater focus on the side kick Felix and the protagonists. This book feels like the start of another campaign with it covering some of the back ground of newer characters. So I really look to the next one.

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This isn't a gotrek book

Unfortunetly this doesn't continue from plague slayer, it basically ignors the setup and its as if all of gotreks development has been forgotten or reset. It's very plane and a little boring for Warhammer. The story revolvs around a new character who was very boring when compared to every other main character gotrek has met. Gotrek is in roughly 1/4 of the story and the skaven a little less. I cant recomend this story because it dosnt hold up when compared to any other AOS or Fantasy story. what a shame. HOWEVER the narrator is fantastic as always, too bad he didn't get a lot of gotrek or skaven dialogue...

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Good addition liked the new sidekick

Overall was a good story seemed a bit more remicient of the gotrek and Felix books, miss maleneth but the new character is better than amara.

Hopefully this goes somewhere, was enjoying the witchhunter previously hunting goteek. It feels like something is slowly coming together look forward to the next installment.

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Needs more Gotrek

We listen/read these books because of Gotrek, but this book has the smallest amount of Gotrek so far. It didn’t matter so much in the older books if we had sections without any Gotrek because Felix was such a well developed character, but in these more recent books we just seem to be getting less and less of the whole reason these books have the fans they have.

The ending to Verminslayer was utterly disappointing unfortunately, and it didn’t even really progress the story in this Age of Sigmar setting.

Jonathan Keeble does a fantastic job as always, and the actual detail in the book is enticing. The story was generally good, though as previously noted the ending wasn’t good - it feels like for some reason the previous book’s plot has been canned and we’re going in a new direction, and this book is just here to service that change.

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featuring gotrek

its a story about a free Guild mercenary named Elsworn..... and sometimes gotrek is in it. verminslayer should be titled "Elsworn and the loose cannons, the rats, the city and sometimes (if it's important enough) gotrek

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Enjoyed it a bunch!

Fun and campy story with some good pulp action.

Also really liked the new companion character's often frantic energy and how it bounced off with Gotrek brickwall of a demeanor, really hoping she sticks on for a long one!
And as always, Jonathan Keeble continues to be definitive voice for these stories. Absolutely stellar work.

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A step backwards. Barely a Gotrek book...

Just as a standard AoS story you'll have fun. The main lass is interesting and the villains are great fun. If it was presented as just another novel to go with 4th Ed. I'd give it 4 stars.

However, this is sold as a Gotrek book and that's where it fails miserably. It feels like right up until the last chapter that the story had been written without him and then he was shoehorned in after the fact. Honestly listening to it there were multiple times I forgot Gotrek was even in the book at all. There's also the issue of his character... all the growth he's had over the last few books and even the path and tease set at the end of Blightslayer (The previous novel) gets handeaved away in a couple paragraphs.

A good 4th Ed. story but by far the weakest of the AoS era Gotrek books. Honestly if you're looking for a Gotrek story specifically then skip this one entirely, Given the way this shrugged off what's come before I can't even suggest reading it to be caught up for the next book because it probably won't matter.

The novel equivalent of anime filler.

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I was dissapointed

So this is a story about some lady and it features Gotrek, and even then where is gotrek, and why is his story so vague, where was he the entire time?, i assume he had a really cool on top of a train fight scene off camera and how did he get there before her, i hope they release a book to go with this but told from Gotreks point of view,
and i dont get where the story is going anymore its just him being places and things happen around him now, atleast at the start he wanted his axe and his manling, and again i dont get whats happening, Gotrek feels as done as i do listening,

i really do hope this improves, as the origional series will always have a place in my heart, and i can accept no manling, but quit teasing it and throwing in some 1 book charcters instead, also no Thankwell? hes like the only other og character left in the new world.

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Narration great as always from Keable, writing is lacking

All of Gotreks back story is meaningless,
just another sidekick taking all the time
that can't compare to felix
The quality of the writing is just not present
Not a dreadful story overall, but it's just another poor imitation of previous books

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