Magestorm

Warhammer Fantasy

by Jonathan Green

Las hordas oscuras del Caos, bajo el mando del señor Archaon, arrasan el Viejo Mundo y los hombres justos del Imperio deben unirse para defender su territorio. A la cabeza se encuentra el hechicero de fuego Gerhart Brennend, cuyo misterioso pasado está marcado por la tragedia. Cuando la tormenta del Caos se cierne sobre Wolfenburgo, se avecina una encarnizada batalla donde la sangre será derramada como nunca antes. ¡Wolfenburgo no debe caer!

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 1, 2004

About the author

Jonathan Green is a writer of speculative fiction, with more than seventy books to his name. Well known for his contributions to the Fighting Fantasy range of adventure gamebooks, he has also written fiction for such diverse properties as Doctor Who, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, Sonic the Hedgehog, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Moshi Monsters, LEGO, Judge Dredd and Robin of Sherwood.

He is the creator of the Pax Britannia series for Abaddon Books and has written eight novels, and numerous short stories, set within this steampunk universe, featuring the debonair dandy adventurer Ulysses Quicksilver. He is also the author of an increasing number of non-fiction titles, including the award-winning YOU ARE THE HERO – A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks.

He has recently taken to editing and compiling short story anthologies, including the critically-acclaimed GAME OVER and SHARKPUNK, published by Snowbooks, and the forthcoming Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu.

To find out more about his current projects visit www.JonathanGreenAuthor.com and follow him on Twitter @jonathangreen.

Reviews

[Peter Rybarczyk · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's a short book, that's a big plus. I've been able to finish it before it the story bored me too much. Next plus and the main reason for 2 stars are pretty good environment and spell descriptions, nice think if you are Game Master.
And that's all, there are too many characters, and most of them are irrelevant. The plot is messy, the ending comes quickly and leaves the reader with the feeling "and... that's it? why other plots have been described there...".
In summary, if you are looking for a book to read on train/plane etc. it's an option, not the best one but pretty ok.

[Lanfear · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mejor de lo que esperaba, tengo que repetir y repetir que no me gusta nada Warhammer Fantasy, me parece muy aburrido en comparación con 40k, pero a pesar de eso, este libro si que me ha gustado. Creo que se centra en un buen personaje, con sus posibilidades en el combate. Creo que es un buen libro de fantasía que aunque tiene fallos esperados, no deja de ser divertido en lo que propone.

[TJ · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't think this book deserves one star, the lowest possible rating, but it wasn't a very good book. It earns one star simply for its environment descriptions, as I felt immersed while reading. The rest of the book was pretty boring. The pacing is weird. The story arcs converge at weird points. The ending was too sudden.

[Paulo "paper books only" · Rating 3 out of 5]

I always been a avid reader of Black Library titles. I have this book for some years but as others in my collection they are here for me to read but I have so many books that is hard to me to decide...
I had read two books by Jonathan Green. First was Necromancer and then I read Crusade for Armageddon. Both were good but somewhat dissapointing... Then he left and went to work with Abaddon. But I think he is back with a short-story in Legends of Space Marines. Maybe he is returning... I read in some forums and some reviews that people didn't like his work. Well... It wasn't all that bad. Necromancer was not a action oriented book. It was a good book set in a city and we deal with the way of the necromancers. It was had a good atmosphere. One of the best I have ever read.

This book is set in the year of 2521 with the siege of Wolfenburg by Surtha Lenk. Our hero is a pyromancer (a Fire Wizard) and he has a quest... To twarth the plans of Chaos. The beginning he is dueling another wizard that had fallen to Chaos influence. We met some witch hunters that due to their fanatic attitude see things the wrong way and capture him. Another important character is a Battle Priest that as he travels to the lands he smite the evil doers and at the same time get an "entourage". Both parties converge on Wolfenburg as the Chaos Hordes start to siege...
It was a good novel with several points of views but the most important was the main character. I think he was not that well portrayed and the mystery of being the way he is revealed in the last couple of pages but that didn't helped. I really didn't care about any of them... There are even some plots who have no purpose (the witch hunters vs magician). The battle scenes were the best part including the siege. As I had read about the Storm of Chaos I knew how it would end.

There are better novels out there. I am currently reading another book with Mages. Christ Wraight's Masters of Magic. So far so good. Better than this one but I am only at page 100 so anything can happen...