"Best Felix and Gotrek Book?" Topic

How would you all rank the various books in the Felix and Gotrek series?

Personally I liked Skavenslayer the best. Funny and very entertaining, though still packed with carnage.

I put Demonslayer and Dragonslayer next. I like the addition of the companions.

Vampireslayer was next. The companions are there but one disapears (sort of).

Trollslayer is good. It is really a group of short stories and I might actually rank it second.

Giantslayer is down on this list because I miss the companions.

I must confess that I never read any of the books that William King did not write. (Thats part of the reason for this topic: to see if they are worth reading!)

I'm in your boat-- I've not read any non-King books about the Slaughter Boys. The rest I enjoyed fairly equally, I guess, although if I were to pick one as a favorite it would be Skavenslayer, too. They are my other army for Fantasy after the Dwarves… 8)=

Funny. I JUST finished listening to the "Slayer of the Storm God" audiobook, and Danny Web did a great job reading it.

Having never read any of the books, I might go off and take a look…

Hmmmm.
I liked Manslayer and Elfslayer. Primarily because I thought William King was getting repetitive and the story was slowing down. Nathan Long, imho, breathed some new life into the series by advancing the story some years, highlighting the racial differences between Gotrek and Felix, and revisiting some older characters.
Cracking good story, too.

Matt

Good to hear, Matt! I wasn't really even aware that somebody else had taken the series over, but it's good to know that they aren't mucking it up.

My favourites are probably Vampireslayer and Dragonslayer.

Of Nathan Long's efforts, I thought Orcslayer and Elfslayer were a little weak (although Elfslayer did feature the return of a long-lost antagonist!). Orcslayer in particular had a not-very-Warhammer-y bad guy, IMO.

Skavenslayer, though I liked the Witchhunter series. If you like those, you should check out The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski. Great dark fantasy.

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I'm not a fan of the series per se (I read one, and it was fine, but not my thing) but I am a fan of Bill King.

I spent a week holed up with him about ten years ago working on a project for F-F-Foundry that never made it to fruition. He's a terrific guy. He shared his philosophy of writing fiction with me; "Write 2000 words a day, whether you think it's good or not, no matter how long it takes. When you reads the finished manuscript you won't be able to tell the good days from the bad ones."

Four novels of my own later, I thank him for that advice.

Skavenslayer. I agree that the last 2 books by King were getting repetitive. I haven't seen the other ones, but I'll probably pick them up.

Another Bill King series that I really liked was Space Wolf. Too bad it won't be finished.

Why won't it be finished? Is he dead?

No, but as far as I know, he no longer works for GW.

I'm not sure which one was my favorite. Probably Skavenslayer. But I read most of them in the space of about two weeks, and so where one ends and the next begins is sort of running together for me off the top of my head.

Guess I need to go re-read them.

And thanks for the heads up on the series's continuation.

Anything titled Elfslayer can't be all bad.

I gotta go with JWOMACK94 on that one…

Skavenslayer and Manslayer

BTW, I named my two lab puppies, Gotrek & Felix.

What is Bill King writing now?

I read one his sci-fi Warhammer books but didn't like it that much.

Skavenslayer & Manslayer

Skaven SLayer, Daemon Slayer, Dragon Slayer, Vampire and Giant slayer are all very good. I would agree that Skaven Slayer is probably the best of the King series.