I started reading Wolfsmund because it got a lot of comparisons to Berserk, and I love Berserk. What I got was nothing like Berserk.
The only similarity between the two is that people die a lot.
Wolfsmund is presented in an episodic format; the only recurring characters are the checkpoint's warden (who I call Mr. Smiley, and is apparently designed to be as infuriating as possible) and a mysterious female innkeeper with a dark past. The chapters all have the same basic premise: Two characters try to cross the checkpoint and die.
That's it.
Every chapter (or series of chapters), you're introduced to two characters, one or both of whom are going to try to cross the checkpoint for whatever reason. They get there, Mr. Smiley toys with them a bit, then they die.
As the "story" drags on, the plans to cross the checkpoint become more in-depth, and the dei ex machina the author throws in to stop them more ludicrous. One chapter in particular revolves around two highly-skilled mountaineers attempting to go around the checkpoint by scaling the Alps. The ascent is incredibly dangerous and could be considered suicidal, but they make it.
Oh, but wait. There's a watchtower at the top of the mountain garrisoned by at least ten men-at-arms. The same mountain that was barely climbable, that is basically sheer cliffs on all sides. Somehow, they built a watchtower up there. Somehow, they keep it garrisoned and supplied. Somehow, said watchtower/garrison is on the exact route the mountaineers chose to take. Somehow, Mr. Smiley is there at that exact moment.
Okay, the watchtower and the garrison is already stretching it, but how the **** did Mr. Smiley get there? He's at the checkpoint all day, every day, because he personally interviews everyone who passes through it. Even if he knew about the attempt in advance, he would have had to follow the mountaineers up the mountain, yet he was there before them.
All that aside, let's say they did it somehow. Maybe they have some sort of elevator system. The question then is, why would they bother building a watchtower on top of a mountain that, as far as they know, is impossible to climb?
tl;dr Infuriating villain kills people in increasingly contrived and unbelievable ways. If you loved the way your favorite character on Game of Thrones died, relive that feeling over and over again with Wolfsmund.