Wolfblade (Warhammer 40,000 Novels)

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Customer Reviews:

William King, Continues his greatness! [Posted on 2007-04-04]
This book is fantastic. I've read all the William King - Space Wolf books and this one continues the same feel, touch, smell and sight of the 40k Universe & Space Wolf Series. Ragnar's Introduction into the Wolf Blade allows for the introduction of some great colourful characters and a change of 'setting' from the previous Space Wolf Universe but still does a convincing job of throwing our hero (Ragnar) into an unfamiliar and dangerous world.

I enjoyed how William King took Creative license and referred to things in some fairly obscure '40k fluff' and interposed it into this booking making it convincing and full of 40k sci-fi life!

Like all William King books, some knowledge of the 40k world is useful, but not mandatory and the book is written in a way you don't need to know too much of what happened in the previous books.

Couldn't stop myself, read it in one sitting [Posted on 2007-04-24]
If you're familiar with William King and his other Space Wolf novels, then you should be reading this one. King at his best-setting, plot, action, humor-great storytelling!

If you're not familiar with William King or the Space Wolf novels, you will probably not be disappointed by checking out the Space Wolf Omnibus which has all the 3 novels before this one.
And if you like Fantasy, you cannot miss King's Gotrek and Felix novels.

Ragnar continues to impress [Posted on 2007-05-28]
William King has done a superb job with the Ragnar series. The characters in the books are well thought out and each show their own personality. King really works hard to bring sense to the Space Wolves and the Adeptus Astartes. Other authors would just show space marines as mindless killing machines, but some authors like King really show the inner working of the Marines and that like all of us even though they have been indoctrinated into the life of a warrior they each have a complex inner dialogue and feeling.

This book branches out from those in the omnibus as it leads Ragnar away from his bretheren in the first 3 books, and picks up his life after losing the Spear of Russ. The book takes place on Terra and the treacherous things that take place in the center of the Imperium. It is filled with new Space Wolf characters who have a decidedly different attitude than those populating the first set, but the reader will not be dissapointed.

Not best space wolf novel [Posted on 2007-06-20]
This is a book I found easy to put down,though at times the action is riveting. If u never read another space wolf book, you will find this book shortcoming in many aspects. The plot is limited in both temporal and spatial scales. Characters are extremely shallow and undeveloped, with suspension of belief in the storyline as a result. Environments also suffer, though the limited scope of the storyline would encourage painting of detailed pictures...
Positive signs? a glimpse on how earth-like planets could end up if building pressure is carried on to extremes. But even this very good opportunity is really wasted by totally unrealistic concepts, as buildings still standing after what is hinted like hundreds of meters of other buildings placed on top of them! lol...
Positive points are glimpses of an imperial assasin, navigator life, including a secret that is hinted at 200 pages before it is revealed, some battle scenes...
Only recommended if u must read all 40k novels! Pulp scifi at its most hastily thrown together type...

Fun story [Posted on 2007-11-05]
Wolfblade is the fourth in the Space Wolf series and the last one written by William King. Ragnar deals with the consequences of his actions from Grey Hunter, the previous book.

I enjoyed the story over all and felt it was one of the better books in the series. No real big plot twists or surprises, but a good action story. The interplay between characters is really the best part of the book. Haegr being my favorite new character. Although I miss Sven. King writing finally feels like he is comfortable in the 40k universe, something that didn't come across in earlier books. Hopefully he will come back to the series at some future point.

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