Although it was fun, the story seemed repetitive and a little disjointed

Let me start by saying this is a super fun listen. Richard Reed does an excellent job of differentiating the main characters (Gustav, Emelda, Radukar, Morrvhal). There are some ancillary characters who sound very similar, but they’re not SUPER important to the plot. I think the novel could’ve been a little shorter, there were some points in the middle where things felt a little repetitive, but overall it’s a very fun listen. I actually listened to the bulk of it while assembling the models for cursed city, which helped get me excited for the modeling portion of the game.

The ending has me VERY excited to get into the board game with some friends. It makes me want to buy the physical copy for the Morrvhal hero card as well.

Overall it’s simply a fun read, if you go in expecting some literary marvel, you’ll be disappointed, but if you go in expecting something that’s enjoyable, relatively short, and you’re looking for something to get you even more excited about Warhammer Quest: Cursed City, go ahead and give this a listen.

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Uhg

I am pretty charitable when it comes to warhammer novels, I have read or listened to a very sizable chunk of what BL has published.

To date, this is the ONLY book I couldn’t finish - it’s that bad. It seems like the characters are stuck in a time loop, they try the same things and end with the same results over and over. Alone, that wouldn’t sink it for me but the characters are sooo terribly thick-headed and terribly uninteresting that I found a limit I didn’t know I had. This board game this ties in with is quite good, the book is not.

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Worth it if you’re interested in the board game.

I recently started playing the Cursed City game and this book did a great job of explaining the history of Ulfenkarn, Radukar, and some of his various minions. It set the scene nicely for the board game. Reed did an absolutely cracking job of reading it as well. Some well done, clearly distinct and characterful voices.

That’s about all it’s good for though. If I were to have read it with no intention of playing the game, I would have found it somewhat bizarre, unexplained and woefully unfinished (because, of course, this is presumably only supposed to be the first half of the story, while the game is the other half).

Coupled with that, it suffers from the same problems many Black Libary books do, in that there’s more fighting than actual story and ends up being like listening to a late ‘90s death metal song: ‘gore, blood, flesh, stench, more gore, more blood’. Never heard the word ‘visage’ so many times in so few hours hour. Just another average writer trying to sound more eloquent than he might be, to the point a lot of the flowery language sounds forced and overdone.

As I say though, those are problems I find with many Black Library novels though so if you usually don’t mind their style, you’ll probably be fine with this one.

Otherwise, if you intend to play, or are already playing, the Cursed City board game, definitely give this one a go. Really helps to shed a lot of light onto where it’s set, what’s going on and why.

If you’re not going to play the game though, perhaps not so worth it.

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More than worth the listen and the credit\ cost!

I was thrilled and kept on wagering guessing the outcome and it's smaller reveal throughout. Loved the blnarration. The setting story characters all are superb. Top notch work. now to squire the actual board game. haha

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Middling

Long winded and repetitive story that gets better as it goes but doesn't seem to take full advantage of the source material. Fantastic performance by the narrator though

Great Worldbuilding

One of the greatest aspects of the Warhammer Universe is while the world and lore is vast, it's content is often delivered in small bite size chunks with it's own unique and impactful flavor.
This was a great sampling of the governing actions and impact of the undead and a few exceptional champions. Worth a read (listen) if you enjoy Warhammer lore, and a fun mystery.

4 stars because it felt a bit repetitive at periods throughout.

Bad story saved by good narrator

Meandering, repetitive, and with frankly annoying leads and at least one major plot that is basically forgotten. It wants to be a murder mystery but it only is one for about 30 minutes in the last two hours. Radukar is the best part of this book, and both he and the narrator save this from being a one-star review.

Great story

The book is basically a prologue to the game sets up what happens before the game. While playing the game is where you choose how everything ends I assume. So I may have to pick it up once it’s available again to see.

Weak Hunter

The Vampire hunter was to weak... I'm surprised he survived through his rookie years, let a lone take on older vampires.

Great story and narration.

I enjoyed this story from start to finish. It serves as a prelude to the Cursed City board game from Games Workshop. The narration and voice acting was well done and very fitting to the tone and scene. The writing was well done as well, descriptive of the setting and action and just gruesome enough when it had to be.