The Black Plague

The Black Plague #1-3

by C.L. Werner

The Empire conceived by Sigmar has stood for more than a thousand years, but now it rests on the edge of destruction – the reign of the greedy and incompetent Emperor Boris Goldgather has shaken down the great and prosperous edifice of his erstwhile realm. Without warning, a terrible and deadly plague strikes, followed by a tide of monsters from the skaven. In the face of this horrifying threat the beleaguered armies of the Empire muster to defend their cities' walls, and the skaven find more than they had expected as an army of the dead rises in Sylvania. As war sweeps across Sigmar’s realm, a hero rises in the north and begins to embrace his destiny as the future leader of a united Empire – if he can survive the trials to come.

Read it because
If you want a tale of epic heroes triumphing against impossible odds (and who doesn't want that?), you can't get much better than an Empire divided, brought low by plague and greed, and besieged by the numberless hordes of the skaven. Impossible odds indeed... Just as well there's a hero up to the task in these three novels detailing one of the Empire's darkest periods.

Genres: Fantasy

942 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 2, 2015

Reviews

[Ben Stoddard · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had a hard time keeping track of the myriad of characters in this story, mainly because they didn't really stick out from each other and one Count ___ov was about the same as the next. But it read like Historical Fiction so I suppose there was a theme there.

I enjoyed the story, and was glad at the representation of the bad guys in a way that kept them alien, but where you found yourself rooting for Puskab at various times throughout the story. However, this book is very much so a start of a trilogy and it reads like one, where most of the story is setup for the subsequent books. So don't expect a healthy resolution to anything that is established in this first book.

Overall, it was a fun read.