Blood on the Reik: Death's Messenger: Blood on the Reik

by Sandy Mitchell

Rudi is a dreamer living in a small village near the Imperial city of Marienburg. Along with his best friend Hanna, they embark on a perilous quest to rescue Rudi's father, after a fanatical Witch... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844160939
• ISBN13: 9781844160938
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Games Workshop(uk)
• Length: 409 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

from a Warhammer fan

Being a Warhammer fan I really enjoyed this book. I peticularly liked how the author keeps the reader in the dark about the Warhammer universe, just as if you were some superstitious country folk. As the story goes on you discover more and more about truths in the Empire; this was the most enjoyable part of the book for me.

Great genre novel

Death's Messenger was a real page turner - quite a quick and enjoyable read. A coming of age story set against the fantastic world of the Warhammer miniatures game (which is in and of itself a lot of fun), the novel does a great job of taking a young hero-in-training and bringing he and his friends across the captivating campaign world of the game. Well worth the read.

Excellent!

Rudi Walder lives with his adoptive father in a village named Kohlstadt. He grew up learning how to track, scout, hunt, and some weaponry. He also dreams of seeing the world and making a difference in it. His life changes when Luther Gerhard, a witch hunter, enters the village. Beastmen have been in the area and a Chaos cult has been spreading. Rudi and another villager, Hanna Reifenstal (herbalist), flee Kohlstadt. Gerhard has a bounty out on the couple, accusing them as heretics. Rudi and Hanna travel as siblings, trying to stay away from all those who would turn them over for the bounty. Currently, their only plan is to reach a city named Marienburg. As they travel, they will come to realize that they each have special abilities. ***** This is part of the Warhammer, Fantasy Roleplay, saga. This looks to be the first of a series by author Sandy Mitchell. If the rest of her novels are as awesome as this first installment, then she can add me to her list of fans. The authors has successfully captured the Warhammer flavor. This novel will grab your attention quickly and lead you on a fabulous adventure. Excellent! ***** Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

Good novel. Half a novel though.

As the other reviewer has already mentioned, This is a good novel. Not quite up to the Cain novels but good nonetheless. This novel was more of a character development novel. Lots of stuff happens to the protagonists but we don't really see too much change in the main characters, at least in their mindset. Something else worth mentioning is that this isn't one of the gory style warhammer fantasy novels with action packed into every page. The reader will be able to tell from the style of the writing and action that is really is intended to promote the warhammer fantasy roleplaying that features so prominently on the front and back covers of the novel. We don't have any munchkins in the entire book. Just regular citizens of the empire going about their everyday lives, some of them dying/mutating/changing as the story progresses. The last thing worth mentioning is that this novel is a bit short for the story. At over 400 pages, you'd figure that we could get some kind of solid conclusion to the story, even if there would later be sequels or a trilogy. The novel however leaves off with a MAJOR cliffhanger and ends with the feeling that the second half of the novel is missing. I can only hope that the Black Library and Sandy Mitchell won't be taking too long to write and release the sequel.

Not as good as Ciaphas Cain

Sandy Mitchell is one of my favorite Warhammer authors, right up there with Dan Abnett, but this book was a little bit of a let down. The characters seemed to be just a little flat, almost as if Mitchell decided to cram as many people into this story as he could. As a result, he did not go into as much depth with the main characters as I would have liked. Also, the book seems to break off in the middle of the story, like Mitchell was told that he could not write a longer book. Although the plot had moments of suspense, it seemed like nothing really got resolved. Dont get me wrong, this is a good read, but the book could have been so much better.