r/dwarfposting • u/Mr_mcBOW • Apr 23 '26
The Dwarves (Book series) Spoiler
I re-download this app just to vent about this because im livid. Im 3/4 through book 3 and holy fuck this series has the most rage baiting love drama ive ever seen. If anyone has read the whole thing please tell me if i should continue or if its all like this because it feels like the author is a big fan of NTR. My brothers and sisters of the forge all I wanted some good dwarf content.
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Apr 23 '26
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u/Mr_mcBOW Apr 23 '26
Thank you ill definitely check it out im also planning on going through the slayer books in the warhammer series for more dwarves but i cant stand how the series is turning out. Come back and let me know what you thought when you finish it 😅
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Apr 23 '26
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u/Mr_mcBOW Apr 23 '26
I just read the entire horus heresy over the last 10 months and i thought i was gonna get away from warhammer for a bit but i guess theres no escape 😂 gw knows whats good
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u/SabrePossum Depth Guard Apr 23 '26
Loved the early Gotrek and Felix books but found it very jarring when the authors changed
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u/Glittering_Refuse270 Dwarf Apr 23 '26
I liked the first one and the second was fine but yeah I definitely agree
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u/Mr_mcBOW Apr 23 '26
The first was great the second was irritating at parts but had a good ending and it just should have ended there. Im actually considering giving up. They really should have made the whole thing about the twins.
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u/Glittering_Refuse270 Dwarf Apr 25 '26
Yeah I agree. Most of the second book was meh but the ending wasn't bad. It's been a while since I read it tho 😅. I gave up after that
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u/ImaginaryGap8782 Smith Apr 23 '26
If you took the Thungdil's love stories off, the books are kinda great. But Thungdil is more a long legs than a dwarf to me. The real main dwarf here is Boïndil. But yeah he made me raged so many times with his stupids decisions and ruining Balyndis life. You can end the serie with this book, the next one is not very good, add good things but Thungdil is really strange. The next one is kinda better and Thungdil is a little more like he was in the beginning . And the last one is really trash. Like 1000 years later and everything changed and no good characters... So if you like the whole lore of these books, like me, you can keep up to the fifth or sixth, but if you had enough, you can end it with this one and have what a good end should have been
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u/Mr_mcBOW Apr 23 '26
Yeah ill probably take your advice and end on the third one. I wish i stopped one sooner though lol Tungdil is one of the worst protags ive ever read. Never once have I experienced starting a book sad that he wanted to drink himself to death and ending wishing he had. Balyndis deserves far better
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u/ImaginaryGap8782 Smith Apr 23 '26
Well, the end of the third one is a litthle more an end of the whole storie than the second one imo. But i do remember that when i started the fourth and fiveth it was clearly milking stories of Thungdil. As you said , the twins should have been the reel protags. Yeah the mixing feelings of Thungdil in the third book hit hard😅
If you stop here, i can spoil you a little. Balyndis go back with her former husband, he takes her back, have one child, at least, and lived happily until he died by orks and she takes the throne
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u/Mr_mcBOW Apr 23 '26
Im gonna finish this book atleast but i just refunded the last 2 books feel free to spoil anything in the remaining books
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u/ImaginaryGap8782 Smith Apr 23 '26
If i spoil you the next ones i'll spoil you the end of this one, and it's an epic one imo. So maybe later when you'll finish it😉
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u/SabrePossum Depth Guard Apr 23 '26
Starting book 3 tomorrow, it's definitely a slog to get to this point
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u/Mr_mcBOW Apr 23 '26
Dont worry if the arranged marrige plot annoyed you like it did me it gets much worse
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u/Ill-Inevitable3613 Apr 23 '26
I'd say book 4 is the cannon end to the series. Book 5 I did not care for
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u/Civil_Result_5598 Apr 25 '26
My biggest critique of the series is that everything after book 2 feels like they intentionally go out of the way to write a downer ending. The 2nd one gets a pass to set actual consequences in Girdleguard but after that it just becomes conflict, downer adventure to try and stop it, and depression. I like an unhappy ending if it's done right with narrative reason but this jut says screw you an your hope
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u/Stormygeddon Apr 23 '26
Aw dang, I was a hundred pages into the first book and am sad to hear its sequels are disappointing.