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Verminslayer

Gotrek Gurnisson: Warhammer Age of Sigmar

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Verminslayer

By: David Guymer
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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A Gotrek Gurnisson Audiobook

Greywater Fastness – an industrial canker in the heart of Ghyran. Foundries and metalworks pump soot and fire endlessly into the skies of the Realm of Life. Dusty streets hide peril at every turn, and attacks by the Dreadwood Sylvaneth hamper the city’s relentless encroachment.

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Gotrek takes on some of his earliest enemies again – the scheming skaven! It may be a different time, and a different world, but the legendary Slayer hasn't lost his knack for dealing with vermin.

THE STORY

Gotrek Gurnisson barges into Greywater Fastness seeking answers as to why his Fyreslayer rune is mysteriously waning. But finding them in the stronghold's clogged and blackened arteries may prove far more difficult than first thought, and with skaven warlocks building something deep underground – something that will cement their place in skavendom forever – Gotrek begins to wonder if he might instead find that which has eluded him these past ages – his doom.

©2025 Games Workshop Limited (P)2025 Games Workshop Limited Epic Fantasy Tear-jerking

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Gosh, where to begin so disappointing, I was really looking forward to the book, and it was poor on so many levels, how anyone can give this a 5 for story is mind blowing. The only thing that saved this book is the narrator. All the hard work fleshing Gotrek out in previous books was just thrown in the bin due to an argument with an elf!!! I felt the was a book the contained glimpses of Gotrek but did not feel like a Gotrek book... The female character story felt lacking in depth.

Was this even a Gotrek book??

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A really enjoyable listen interms of story and the narration is superb. it is true there is not a huge amount of gotrex at the start but that is similar to past novels such as skavenslayer which had he greater focus on the side kick Felix and the protagonists. This book feels like the start of another campaign with it covering some of the back ground of newer characters. So I really look to the next one.

start of a new campaign...

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compared to the other Gotrek books this one probably has the weakest Gotrek content but the story focus was more on other characters however I still think the story was good just possiy shouldn't have been a Gotrek book and instead should have been a story with Gotrek as a cameo.

A good story

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I enjoyed the book but just feel the focus was very heavy on the new character Hellswarn and made Gotrek feel like a small side part which would of been fine if it wasn't a Gotrek book but overall I did like the new protagonist but a little confused what happened to the last one it's covered in about one line and not mentioned again.. still worthwhile

good story great Narrator but just feels like gotrek is a side character

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Was a little dubious of this one since blightslayer was a tough read. but the story is amazing, the new companion is great and it just feels right having Gotrek fighting skaven again. I think I like the skaven antagonist better than Thanquol.
The voice acting is phenomenal and really adds to the story. can't wait for the next one.

Best Gotrek book in a while

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I’m a big fan of Gotreks entrance to Age of Sigmar and greatly enjoyed the books so far. This however made me lose interest and start wondering away in my thought on other things while listening. I can’t really say why but maybe the storytelling focuses a lot on describing places and people which takes a lot of time instead of happenings which are few between the dull moments.

The performance thou is flawless, as always by mr Keeble.

I hope the next book will be more like the earlier ones.

Not nearly as good a story as the ones before.

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Overall was a good story seemed a bit more remicient of the gotrek and Felix books, miss maleneth but the new character is better than amara.

Hopefully this goes somewhere, was enjoying the witchhunter previously hunting goteek. It feels like something is slowly coming together look forward to the next installment.

Good addition liked the new sidekick

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We listen/read these books because of Gotrek, but this book has the smallest amount of Gotrek so far. It didn’t matter so much in the older books if we had sections without any Gotrek because Felix was such a well developed character, but in these more recent books we just seem to be getting less and less of the whole reason these books have the fans they have.

The ending to Verminslayer was utterly disappointing unfortunately, and it didn’t even really progress the story in this Age of Sigmar setting.

Jonathan Keeble does a fantastic job as always, and the actual detail in the book is enticing. The story was generally good, though as previously noted the ending wasn’t good - it feels like for some reason the previous book’s plot has been canned and we’re going in a new direction, and this book is just here to service that change.

Needs more Gotrek

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its a story about a free Guild mercenary named Elsworn..... and sometimes gotrek is in it. verminslayer should be titled "Elsworn and the loose cannons, the rats, the city and sometimes (if it's important enough) gotrek

featuring gotrek

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The female lead is by far the main interest of the author over the actual title character here, there's barely any depth given to Gotrek's normally detailed combat whilst everything around Elsworn given much more attention whilst Gotrek just stomps in to annoy her - at least with Felix and Malaneth, they had a reason to follow Gotrek that would ensure they'd be close to him at all times, but Elsworn just has her wounded pride from Gotrek stealing her kill to tie her to him as he pops in and out of the plot when it's convenient until she's glued to him in the final act.

The whole reason Gotrek is even in Greywater Fastness is only a passing mention halfway through the story rather than being a primary plot point that he's actively trying to resolve from the start, it just feels like he's just been tacked onto someone else's tale to sell the book; the tale's saving grace are the Skaven Warlock-Engineer twins, mostly because Skaven always provide a good chuckle with their hijinks.

Johnathan Keeble is still my favourite narrator, but some of the cuts between paragraphs sounded like lines were done in a different studio or with different equipment after the fact, which is a little awkward.

It's a fine story, but definitely not one I'd call "a Gotrek Gurnisson novel" by comparison to Blightslayer before it, you wouldn't be missing much if you skipped this one.

Average AoS story, just not a Gotrek story

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