Brian's Book Blog

In the Warhammer world, Brettonia is filled with chivalrous knights, defending damsels in distress, being honourable, riding horses everywhere, going on quests, oppressing peasants, and refusing to use ranged weapons.

Although the action when it happens in this book is good, and the forces they're up against are described in all their hellish detail, I couldn't get interested in the main characters at all.
In a nutshell, Brettonians are boorish douche bags.

The author spends a good chunk of the book explaining the downtrodenness (if that's actually a word) of the peasants and the attitudes of the nobles towards them. Bows are peasant weapons. Being poor, diseased, dirty etc are peasant problems. (If you could do a word count of this book, I expect "peasant" would be one of the top words in that list).

A good premise for a story, but could have used any of the other nationalities in the Warhammer world and would have been much better.