Warhammer Adventures Book Series Continues Into 2021
December 17, 2020 by brennon
Two new books are on the way from Games Workshop for younger readers in 2021. If you're interested in the Warhammer Adventures series then you'll be pleased to know that there is another book for Warhammer 40,000 and for Warhammer: Age Of Sigmar on the horizon.
Plague Of The Nurglings // Games Workshop
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All of the books in the Warhammer Adventures series are there to get younger hobbyists and lovers of Fantasy and Sci-Fi interested in these worlds and carry over themes of friendship and comradery in the many battles the characters fight, regardless of the genre. The first of these books is Plague Of The Nurglings...
"Plague of the Nurglings by Cavan Scott continues the Warhammer 40,000: Warped Galaxies series. This latest entry sends Zelia Lor and her companions to the forge world of Aparitus, where they continue their search for the mysterious Emperor’s Seat – and Zelia’s explorer mother. Under the protection of Inquisitor Jeremias, they deal with the cyborg servants of the Adeptus Mechanicus – and are thrown into another battle for their lives as a sinister plague infects man and machine alike, and unleashes a horde of daemonic nurglings across the planet."
In the second of the new books, we're looking to the Mortal Realms and a different cast of characters in Fortress Of Ghosts...
Fortress Of Ghosts // Games Workshop
Here is what to expect from this entry into the series...
"Imprisoned in the Palace of Mirrors in dark Shyish, the Realm of Death, Kiri and her fellow adventurers must brave the Shatterglass Labyrinth to escape. The only way to survive is for Kiri, Alish, Elio, and Thanis to trust one another – but a recent betrayal makes that hard. Can they put aside their hurt and fear, or will the Nighthaunts claim their souls for Nagash?"
I've not had a peek inside the pages of these books, but I think if I were a young'un right now, I would be all over the look of these. The cover art looks neat and inviting and it seems like it might have been a fun way to dive into the world of Warhammer before trying my hand at something bigger from Black Library.
These books mark the fifth in each series which has expanded greatly over the last few years...
Warhammer Adventures Sci-Fi Books // Games Workshop
Warhammer Adventures Fantasy Books // Games Workshop
It would be interesting to hear from parents who have read these books to their kids or got their kids interested in the hobby through these tales. As I say, these probably wouldn't be for me considering I'm now in my mid-thirties but I bet a lot of kids are getting a kick out of these.
What do you think?
"I think if I were a young'un right now, I would be all over the look of these..."
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So Warhammer Adventure books have been successful enough to continue to next year with that many new books.
Well, they’ve been going for a while now and must be successful if they keep printing them/asking for more. So, seems like it’s on the up-and-up
Great to see! My son adores reading these, and I enjoy reading them too!
Neat to hear!
Yeah, people were quite critical of the books, but my seven year old enjoyed them and he is the target audience.
My 8 year old girl has read all the sigmar books and has been asking for the new one she can’t get in to the 40k one’s.
Nice are they the books Tennant an Piper are doing the talking versions of?
Eh… sorry, but I still can’t get behind these, though I do appreciate the intention. MY first introduction to Warhammer was reading the Last Chancers compendium back when I was in seventh grade, and I appreciated the over-the-top violence, action scenes, and dark themes compared to very light fare like Star Wars or Doctor Who; but if these books do get kids into the hobby without dumbing down lots of the darker aspects, I wish them well. (I still have a hard time imagining a kid getting into 40K with one of these lighter books and really loving it, only… Read more »
This is my conundrum. My son was probably at he upper end of the target audience when he read the first book (bought by me). He enjoyed it, saved up for some Necrons, and has now painted them and had more for birthdays and Christmas. From that perspective, the books worked and the hobby has another recruit that was only half interested when he saw me doing hobby-time. The conundrum is moving on – the books are light, but the wider lore can be very dark. I am not sue the series will continue to interest him as he heads… Read more »
40k lore has already been “dumbed down” to make Imperium look like the good guys, so no need to worry about that. Gone is any nuance, now we’re told outright “Imperium is doing bad things to humans cause it’s necessary” as opposed to earlier “Imperium is doing bad things to humans, IS it necessary?” seen in pre-2010 books and lore.
i take it you never watch any of the action films as that sounds like most of them now a days @kronosthetraveler
I got a sampler booklet of those thrown in with some GW order, and I can say they’re written exactly as well/poorly as other kid’s tie-in novels, that is to say, way better than Horus Heresy series is. More believable characters too.
Lets get Warren to do a review. I’m sure the expletives will be hilarious