Vampire Wars: The Von Carstein Trilogy (Warhammer Chronicles)

I think this is the only 1 star review I have ever given anything. Minor spoilers ahead:The first book, Inheritance, was good. Well written and engaging. Except for Middenheim falling to siege (the first time). I don't recall any mention of the Faushlag Rock at all. And then I get to the second book, Dominion.We're introduced to the most undwarflike dwarf ever. Who has more knowledge of the human Gods of Morr (saying the dead need money for passage) and Sigmar than his own Gods. Who is apparently only "Grimna." Every sentence about the dwarf was just wrong, and made it hard to read anything about him. It's like the author has absolutely no knowledge of warhammer dwarf lore.The characters also frequently forget things that they themselves had established only 20 pages before (i.e. a missing body that they knew about, and then went back to the grave and were surprised the body was missing)And then Middenheim falls to siege a second time. Again, no mention of the Fauschlag Rock. In fact the book only mentions the city has "towering walls" and that archers rained down arrows from said walls. And the defenders "sallied forth onto the plain" when in every other mention of Middenheim I can think of specifically states the Fauschlag Rock rises abruptly from the forest. No mention of the viaducts either. It's as if the city is just some random city. I haven't even finished the 2nd book yet but this is by far the worst omnibus I have read simply because of inconsistent lore and basic lack knowledge about the WHF universe on the author's part.

I was rather disappointed. The end of Nagash saw the scattering of the vampires after the fall of Lahmia. Besides a few cryptic references there was no mention of the the histories of the different bloodlines. There were to many characters that really didn't add to the plot of the story. Characters would be introduced only to die pointlessly after a few chapters. Leaving me with a sense that the author was just adding bloody filler to extend the meandering plot. Disappointing letdown from the first two in the series

I'm tired of the Vampire as lover's reading. They read essentially the same. This gets back to true vampire, an alpha predator of human beings! The blood, cold blooded, and the like reads like an old time vampire novel.

I got into this through playing the Vampire Counts on Total War Warhammer. It’s definitely a good read and classic grim darkness that is a hallmark of Warhammer. Anyone who is a fan of old school vampire tropes would like this as well since the Von Carsteins are or were portrayed as the classic vampire.

I absolutely loved this book! I recommend to all hard core vampire lovers!!

Vampires vs the Empire. Three books in one bloody collection that covers the years of Von Carsteins reign of terror.

I was really disappointed.The first 2/3 of the book was amazing.But in the end, it failed to deliver. One thing ruined the entire book for me.I don't want to spoil it. But it made the entire series stupid, within it's own universe

As good as I had hoped for and perfect for fantasy readers and players!

vampires of the old world are really very unpleasent creatures, which is great. If they weren't the vampire wars might instead have been the vampire dinner parties, now that would be a terrible book to read.This on the oher hand is a very good book to read.Without giving much away, vampires want dominion over the old world [Setting for these books] and the way to achieve this is in good old vampire fashion, sucking blood, raising the dead, shape changing, torture and teariring their victims apart to gorge on their flesh. not habits for polite society, so they have to be thwarted.Enter the heroes, some briefly, vampires are quite efficient. diverse and interesting all fighting for the same thing but not always combined. If had read these books seperately i would have said the first one was a bit slow to get going but as an omnibus it creates a sound base for the others, witch clip along quite well.So if you like vampires, fantasy, gore, heroes and some decent plots you won't be dissapointed.

This is value for money.Its a grim dark tale even more so than your usual warhammer booksIts hard not to recommend this when it is well written and a huge 3 book story.I loved it

I’ve read a lot of warhammer 40k books, so I decided to give the “old world” books a try. After a promising start, I found myself losing interest, and gave up about 3/4 in. Found it to be very average

Love the themes within this book, very atmospheric. A little cheesy at times but suitable for all ages

Item did not appear after much anticipation. These books are normally high price so I should have known better. Thank fully Amazon sorted me with a refund for my son. Disappointing and waste of time but hey!