Guardians of the Forest

by Graham McNeill

A human knight is plunged into a strange, mystic realm when he joins forces with wood elves who are fighting to defend their forest homeland from marauding beastmen. As the forces of magic run wild,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844162354
• ISBN13: 9781844162352
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Games Workshop(uk)
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.4" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Guardians of the Forest will please Fantasy Readers!!

This novel - for the most part - was very good. Full of magical places and beings that makes it a fun-filled and never dull read. The dark chaos monsters, although cool and exciting to read, came off reading kinda half-cocked. It seemed as if the writer was going to make more characterization out of them - but didn't. Although filled with lots of cool imagery, along with some excellent characters - both human and elf - a lot of the scenes came off seeming kinda glossed over. As if the writer had a deadline to meet. This is still a very worthy read, despite the various problems I spotted. Liked to have seen this as a series or trilogy, so as not to feel so rushed in certain areas of storyline and characterization. This author obviously has a good grasp on fantasy elements. And does a decent job at writing battle scenes. But some of the battle scenes were not too clear, nor well balanced for my tastes. The different clans of elves were a treat. Unfortunately, the human main character seems to pale by comparison. That's a shame. I liked Leofric. But he came across as letting himself be pushed around for such a great human warrior. Didn't like that. And also, if the human was so outclassed as a fighter as compared to the elves...then why at the final battle scene can he all the sudden outfight most elves...? Still worth the read.