Ronnie Komstedt

Ennui through exposure

Revisado: 06-06-25

when you raise the stakes every chapter of the book, sooner or later you leave the reader apathetic.

Curse also feels much less cohesive than the rest of the series so far. It spands some 5-6 years and sometimes makes wild jumps with only the vaguest handwavey "and then we solved that problem....moving on"

the first 3 books felt like Franx had a clear plan for where the story was going, and how to get there.
Curse feels like Franx have lost the plot, and is desperately trying to find the way back.

i will give the next book a chance, but only becourse i really like the first 3.

would recommend everyone who plans to pick this up, pick up the 3.5 book Northmen up first.
its not quite up to snuff with the first 3, but its decent and becomes very pertinent the last few chapters of this one

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lazy

Revisado: 05-11-25

in the other books the Northmen are clearly inspired by Vikings. Fair, being inspired by mythology has been a thing since the time of said mythology.
Taking the Norse Pantheon and religion and dumping it comepletly unchanged into Talona is just Lazy....

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very funny

Revisado: 01-03-25

a very funny look into a very interesting world, would love to get more of the characters

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predictible but fun

Revisado: 01-08-23

A very fun but very predictible story
not really connected to much else in the overarching storyline to my knowledge, but very good for what it is

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least of a great series

Revisado: 01-02-23

the greater good was a decent book, but unlike most of the earlier books in the series i never laughed out loud doing the reading
the story is also far more predictible, all of its twists being pretty obvious
lastly the book is called for the greater good, and yet the Tau are barely in it which I tought was a damn shame

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60 short stories, 10-20 of any real value

Revisado: 07-12-22

H.P. Lovecraft wrote hundredes and hundredes of short stories, and yet most people has only ever heard about let alone read a handfull of them...
there is a reason for that... 9 out of 10 a near unreadable/unlisenble, being either pure word salad, or worse, just plain boring....
Buuuut the few good works, are pretty damn good

so yeah this is a collection of lesser known works, and I would say 1/5th is pretty good and the rest is garbage
the comedy poem both suprised me and mad me giggle though

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Good, but that audio though....

Revisado: 07-10-22

the audio mixing is really shit this time around for some reason, sound levels keep changing, and a ton of words have been cut in...badly...good book, though

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loved it but

Revisado: 05-14-22

i think this would have been the perfect place to end the series, but then again why kill the golden goose

we will see if the series can keep up its steam

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Decent but utterly inconsequential

Revisado: 10-06-21

This book is little more then an excuse to sell Ephrael Stern as a model, and allow her use with Sisters of Battle armies
Now i like the return of one of the cool characters from the late 1990's, but if you dont know about Daemonifuge, you will learn next to nothing in this book

All that said, its a decent little action novel, an did enjoy my time with it

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A good time

Revisado: 09-22-21

In 16 years i have never heard servitors called cyborgs, sounds like bloody mainstreaming... But other then that this longbeard has nothing else to grumble about 😉
Pretty decent crime/40k novel otherwise, i enjoyed it a lot

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