Beastgrave

Beastgrave is a tie-in novel released alongside he expansion for Warhammer Underworlds of the same name, and it is a very nothing book. One might expect that the novel would focus on the Beastmen and Sylvaneth Kurnothi teams from the Underworlds expansion, but it doesnt, we just follow two different groups if Beastmen and Sylvaneth hunting Beastgrave, and these two groups certainly exist. There is nothing I can say that is interesting about the groups, the Beastmen act like Beastmen with a poorly speaking somewhat dumb leader and a intelligent shaaman, while the Sylvaneth certainly care about nature. This is all the character the groups get and it gets repeated over and over. Every chapter is either the Beastmen saying “must eat Beastgrave, be strong and be leader” followed by the Sylvaneth 50 meters back saying “we must stop the rootcutter or the forest would be destroyed, no matter the cost” and its just that for the whole book. Once they get to Beastgrave other Underworlds warbands start showing up, and one of our two groups just slaughters them, its no biggie I guess. On the whole, I did not like this book, none of the characters were interesting, they were just the faction stereotypes, the overarching plot was generic, and we didn’t even get to see the Kurnothi from the Beastgrave expansion which is honestly half the reason I got the book. The only real redeeming quality I can honestly find is that its so short that it wont waste too much of your time if you try to read it.