Kineater

by Jordan Ellinger

Guarding a merchant caravan in the Ogre Kingdoms, Gotrek finds himself part of an ogre tribe's power struggle, while Felix strikes up a friendship with a beautiful fellow writer.

Genres: Fantasy, Short Stories

55 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 15, 2016

About the author

Jordan Ellinger is a recent first place winner in the Writers of the Future Contest and is a Clarion West graduate. His work can be seen in “AE – The Canadian Speculative Fiction Review”, and the anthologies “Time in a Bottle” and ”Sha’Daa: Last Call”. He has two graphic novels in various stages of development: The Seven with Luke Eidenschink and Causality with illustrator Joey Jordan. In his spare time, he helms Every Day Publishing, publisher of Every Day Fiction, Every Day Poets, Flash Fiction Chronicles, and Raygun Revival.

Reviews

[L · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cabbage the gobbo and the 'tasty-mens' kill Shrek. A masterpiece.

[Fiona · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really good homage to William King's series of Gotrek and Felix! And while the characters were excellently pictured, we also encounter new types of doom to face for our favorite trollslayer. And I have to add how much I appreciated the attention Felix and his prosaic work has received.

The plot was thrilling and well executed, and I so enjoyed all the details and references to the Warhammer lore and cultures, neatly adorning everything that happened. I might have to pick up more Warhammer fiction from Jordan Ellinger at some point!

If you are new to the franchise, this may not be the best point to start your journey into the Gotrek and Felix series, since it's placed well behind the third volume of the chronicles and using a good couple of references. With that in mind, you'll find a mix of the less obvious factions, like the Kislevites and Ogres, who are very well displayed during this tale but might be hard to put into context without prior knowledge of the universe.

[Adrian · Rating 1 out of 5]

The intention is good, the result is good, but I didnt like it. You can not sustain the whole story on a plot twist that you announce. specially pretending to be a surprise. Just make it part of the plan openly and then make it not work until the finger idea. That would be slightly better. Somehow I felt something was not right the whole time. But it's a good story in general.

[Joseph Lawlor]

Great

Good story involving ogres, would have like to hear more about them but other than that it was great. 10/10

[Sean · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great short story with ogres pacing and content excellent well worth a read

[Ethan Jarmush · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is something I wrote

[Justin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have seldom read a book, even a novella that I have like as much as I have liked this one. The idea of a dwarf becoming the Tyrant of an Ogre tribe.

[Bec Walraven · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this more than I expected to. For a short story about a dwarf and ogres, it was so much fun. Maybe I liked it because it was also about an author.