Synopsis: Wissenland is under attack from an undead horde. Some Necro has been released from a tomb and is on the march attacking all before him: the last time he existed, he was defeated by the Solland Runefang, which is apparently different to the Wissenland Runefang which the current count has. So a team go off to find the Solland Runefang, so the Count can use it to kill the Necro again.

Strange book – it’s the first C.L.Werner book I’ve read, and so I cannot comment if it’s his normal style.

For me it was a very average read, evidenced by the fact that I had been reading it for a few weeks, without the urge to finish it – or maybe I should just say I could put it down easily.

400+ pages and it takes a while to get going, lots of character introduction, several of which turn out to be of little consequence. It’s over a 100 pages before the ‘team’ get going on their quest.

We have lots of nobles, remnants of knight chapters, mercenaries, the usual ‘oddbods’ mix, a traitor in the camp, and I kept wondering who was going to be the book’s hero, and I was still wondering with just a few pages to go …

There are actually a couple of runefangs around, and there are a couple of twists. It switches back and forth a bit from the quest to what is going on with the Undead invasion, and I did find myself wondering about the time scales and geography on a few occasions as the Undead Horde marched around and the Wissenland Count nipped off for a parlay on the Averland border.

It may have been that the geography of forays into the Black Mountains and the towns attacked and the previously mentioned ‘parlay’ is all reasonable, I just felt that if I’d have looked it up on a GW map and it was ridiculous I might have not bothered to finish the book.

Most of the plot is guessable. The fight scenes are numerous and reasonable – some better than others – the orcs ones leading the way.

Final score: around 6/10.