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Normally I can bang through an AoS novel in a day-or-two but this one I savored, chapter by chapter: it was exquisite. David Annandale previously mastered the art of the courtly vampire novel with his Neferata series; now he tackles the monstrosity of the vampire with the Avengorii and the results are delicious; singing with intrigue and grotesquerie. The Colonnade is a fascinating, fully developed City Of Sigmar that serves as setting but also as metaphor & allegory beyond what a gaming tie-in
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Annandale's best Black Library book to date in my view, and a perfect subject matter that ideally suits his horror tendencies. Tells a clever, deeply satisfying story built around a couple of brilliant characters, while exploring the brutal reality of life in Ghur in a way I haven't seen before, and couldn't have imagine before reading this. The combination of Annandale's style, the setting of Ghur, the nature of the Avengorii and the world building around the Collonade and its people all comes
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Mar 23, 2022
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