Was quite boring and struggled to get half way this book was abandoned

Originally reviewed at Bookwraiths.My rating is 3.5 stars.Warhammer fantasy is a setting built on rich lore; a world so similar yet so very different from our own. A place where magic and chaos swirl around everything. Titanic battles and earth-shattering wars are fought. Great heroes and vile villains arise. Triumphs are won. Mistakes are made. Good doesn’t always win. And, many times, it is difficult to tell who is actually good and who is evil. In other words, it is a magical world which feel...

Original Post:http://reading-lamp.blogspot.com/2012...Having thoroughly enjoyed C.L. Werner's The Red Duke, my anticipation for Dead Winter has been huge. A plague, ratmen, the mighty Empire brought to its knees... What is not to appreciate about that scenario? Being the latest entry to the Time of Legends series, I was sure to pick it up anyway - more Warhammer Fantasy is a good thing in my book.Now that I finished the book, I need to get in touch with a Plague Doktor. I think I might be contam...

Awesome, and very grimdark. A firm addition to the ToL series, and I cannot wait for book two already. Reccomended.

Not bad, typical Werner stuff. You really come to dislike the main human antagonists. The fall of the priest of Morr was a little quick and abrupt though, especially for the 180 degree route he took.

pretty good I thought there was too many characters a lot of them were inconsequential and it was hard to keep track of the plot however some of the characters like Frederick and some of the scaring were really cool Boris is also very evil and I read the second book first which is actually better than this one

Oh man what a book!it took me a little while to finish with Fallout 4 getting in the way, but man was it a good read! Mr. Werner crafted a twisted tale of death and political intrigue that I haven't seen done so well in a warhammer novel before, and it was a joy to read, be it the traitorous plot in Altdorf or the Murderous events in Skavenblight, it was a ton of from from start to finish!

I am a huge fan of the Skaven and this was a pretty good novel with them as adversaries. Admittedly they were mostly in the shadows and the humans didn’t even know they existed until the very end, but still, they were the ones pulling the strings.No one can write the skaven like C.L. Werner can! If you like Warhammer fantasy, then you will love this book.Check it out!

For all their vaunted prowess, for all their supposed woodcraft, the soldiers of Middenheim and Middenland had proven incapable of crushing the latest uprising of beastmen in the Drakwald. Perhaps old Ulric, god of wolves and war, had been caught napping.Recent worldwide soft launch of Warhammer: Odyssey MMORPG for Android and IOS devices, and my resulting addiction to it, reminded me I have something like hundreds of Warhammer books here waiting to be read, so, having been six years since readi...

An awesome piece of fantasy—exceptionally well written, managing to tell an interesting story without getting bogged down with over-the-top action scenes and extravagant descriptions of mythological phenomena. Dead Winter is an excerpt from Warhammer lore that focuses on the human aspect, remaining grounded in the situations and internal conflicts that its characters undergo; characters who are not super-powered gods, mind you, but mere mortals, subject to the same physical and psychological lim...

This is a vivid and exciting entry into the War hammer world.I never played the games in any form but I have enjoyed hearingabout them and reading the off cuts as a casual fan.This book certainly makes me want to read more about the universe.

Shadowhawk reviews the first novel in the new Black Plague trilogy, part of the ongoing Time of Legends series for Warhammer Fantasy Battles.“A sweeping saga of how the Empire is about to be plunged into one of its darkest moments, Dead Winter is not a novel to be missed.” ~The Founding FieldsBack when it was first announced, I wasn’t really all that interested in the Black Plague trilogy. Not much of a fan of Skaven, and the story itself didn’t strike me as being exciting or anything. I enjoyed...

The wonderful thing about the world of Warhammer Fantasy is that it is rich in characters and the potential for different fantasy stories. "Dead Winter" by CL Werner is part of a sub series called, "The Time of Legends", which deals with incidents from the history of the Warhammer universe. Among the unique features of this franchise are the giant ratmen called the skaven. CL Werner has made a name for himself writing about these creatures and he does a great job here as well.This is not one sto...

This was an engaging and intriguing Warhammer novel set in the time of the tyrannical Emperor Boris Goldgather. It combined political conspiracy with the dark atmosphere of an evil plague. There are several point of view characters and a lot of subplots braided together (think Tolstoy's *War and Peace*). This is not a compressed, narrow story, focusing on a single conflict. Instead, this is on an epic, multi-character scale. There is a political rebellion plot. There is a psychological study of

Two stars is my 'disappointing' rating, and I think that in this case a lot of the disappointment comes from how easily the book could've been better than it is. Certain aspects of the plot were undeniably intriguing, and kept me reading, but the story was consistently let down by weakly-defined characters, disconnected plot strands and simple errors which I would suggest can be blamed on poor proofreading. Perhaps adding to the sense of disappointment is that this is the first Black Library boo...

Werner was my introduction to the world of Warhammer novels, and he remains my favorite voice in the Warhammer realms with Kim Newman being a close second. This book is a fantastic example of why. Nothing that gets mentioned or detailed in this book is done so just for the sake of embellishment; every character description, scenery detail, and even the seemingly only flavor text is there to weave a tapestry of setup and payoffs, the kind that make you go ‘oh, so THATS why ***** was brought up ea...

Second time reading this. Good book and epic scale, which is my favorite part. The writing style feels like that of a TV series with many characters, not unlike game of thrones. My only critique is that when any action starts something happens in the narrative so that we sont get to witness the whole battle...very un-warhammer like! Other than that, its a very fun read.

As sinister a read as I think you're ever likely to pick up in the Warhammer settings, Werner has pitted human heroics, political and strength against skaven underworld vile warfare tactics, magic is almost equivalent to chemical warfare here and the tale told is about as dark as it gets, I have had the pleasure of reading other novels by Werner before this one and even though his general writing style normally seems to contain a certain amount of black humour, this is completely absent here, th...