All in all I enjoyed reading this. The plot was a little thin (what did you expect!?) and most of the names of characters and places could have done with a bit more originality, as most were just the german word for the person or place.But having said that, the pace was good and it reminded me of all the times I played Blood Bowl (the board game).

I think my surprise in enjoying Shadespire impacted my judgment and made me believe gaming tie-in novels may be better than I thought. Fan of the game, but this book was way too YA for me, and the humor way too pratfall-y. Probably a fun read for young gamers tho.

Easy, light reading.

The world of warhammer is one of the most ingenious and interesting out there. It got history and a different feeling from other shared worlds like forgotten realms or dragonlance. This world is grim/dark to the core. But not this one.This is Blood Bowl. It's set in the warhammer world but in a paralel world (kind of) where divergences are set in a game of American Football but with brutality that would put to the shame some world wars.Here there are no rules, you've got a pig bladder and must p...

This book is utter trash in the best way possible. It's high fantasy meets American football and all the chaos that ensues. But more importantly, it's actually a really well written and fun high fantasy romp that doesn't take itself too seriously at any point. The characters are genuinely interesting and fun, with clear motivations and a relative amount of character growth given the subject matter. It also has a great over arching plot and some really nice pacing. Many would avoid a book like th...

So, the first Blood Bowl book. I've played the miniatures game but have never before read these books.What we have here is a nice book. Not great but nice. It could have been great but has some problems. The story or plot is actually decent but the style in which it progresses is somehow lacking. Some of the twists seem like they happen just to get the story in a new direction even if it goes against the nature of the characters acting in the scene. Still this does not spoil the whole story it's...

Blood Bowl, how football should be. Forbeck did a good job writing a book about a sport that only exists in the form of a board game, and I have to give him full credit there. He did a good job managing not to bog the entire thing down in a long explanation of rules and such, which meant that this book had a good flow to it and a nice energy. 'Blood Bowl' overall was a good, fun read. The action is steady, the plot moves easily from one point to another, and the underlying intrigue is interestin...

I was positively surprised by the quality of the book in almost every way. I bought the book as a part of a bundle so I got it really cheap and it was definitely worth the price.On paper the book is about the tabletop game Blood Bowl but in reality it is half thriller and half growth story of the protagonist trying to find himself. There are only small sections of games in the book and most of them are there to tell something about the characters not the game.All in all the book felt like a Terr...

Matt Forbeck has done something here that I wouldn't have thought possible; he's written an entertaining novel based on a boardgame.Now, it should be said that Blood Bowl is not your standard boardgame. I still don't think you could write an entertaining novel based on, say, Ludo. For those who aren't familiar with it, Blood Bowl is basically American Football as played in a fantasy universe populated by Tolkienesque creatures. If that doesn't sound awesome to you, don't play the game and don't

Sólo te interesará si eres conocedor del universo que rodea al Blood Bowl. Yo lo soy, pero no me ha parecido más que una novelilla de aventuras con ese trasfondo.

quite disappointing,i was expecting far more violence

FantasyJoin Dunk Hoffnung on his attempt to bring honor back to his family's name by playing the deadly fantasy version of football. This novel had action, mystery, comedy, and heaps of death. The plot constantly moved and all the action beats were where they were needed. This is a pure pleasure read that was hard to put down. Even if you don't care for football, and just want a fun fantasy read then this in a great choice.

I absolutely cannot believe I liked this book as much as I did. In general, I'm not a huge fan of the WH fantasy stuff, and I'm not a big sports fan, so I figured ... no way this is going to be something that really speaks to me. But I was pleasantly surprised to find that, in fact, this book is just damned entertaining from beginning to end. It's fast-paced, the characters jump out at you (even if they aren't incredibly likable), and it has the feeling of a screwball comedy. The only thing I re...

Aaaaaah Blood Bowl! The glorious, brutal sport about American Football x bloody murder!For those of you who don't know about Blood Bowl's history: Blood Bowl was originaly a board/miniatures game in the Warhammer universe. Later in it's life it spawned this book series and 2 video game adaptations (with a third one coming later in 2022).This book series follows Dunk Hoffnung: A human man who's family got disgraced and he is set out to get his family name back to glory! How exactly is he hoping o...

The most entertaining novelisation of a board game I have ever read.

It would have been nice for the book to have more blood bowl in it.

Only read this if you play or have played the game.

Book number three of 2005: Blood Bowl by Matt Forbeck.Matt is a friend of mine; in fact, I hate him for having already written this book at just about the same time I had the idea to pitch a Blood Bowl novel to Games Workshop myself. Feh.Anyway, it's a fun read. Matt does a great job of capturing the feel of Blood Bowl, which is a board game where you play a game very similar to football, using miniatures of trolls, dwarves, evlves and goblins as players. The novel is set in the Warhammer World

This is a really good book. Surprisingly so, considering it is based on a rather silly board game. Forbeck managed to encapsulate the spirit of the game perfectly, even though there are some rookie mistakes in there, like confusing Bob Bifford and Jim Johnson and messing up Dunk's jersey number throughout the narrative. Still, it's really good. A fun read.Also: If you speak German you get a whole different level of puns aside from the football and sports merchandise ones. The names of most of th...