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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
Good read The 6th novel in the horus heresy series detracts away from the style of the previous 5 novels, and takes us back to the beginning of the dark angels legion. As a result, around half of the novel reads like a warhammer fantasy story, with the 40k setting kicking in later. for this reason I think, many people didn't like it. Like the later book Battle for the Abyss, I was put off by the reviews and actually moved straight to legion, even though I brought Eisenstein and Fulgrim along with this, but I am glad... more info
Not that great I'm enjoying the Horus Heresy series but this is the weakest so far and does lend itself to the suspicion that books are being published to cash in on the fact that the Heresy is so vast in scope the series could easily stretch to 100 novels or more. Most of this novel is set on Caliban before the Emperor arrives and thus lays the psychological groundwork for what we know the future will bring. The idea of the planet's warrior code and the descriptions of the world are well written but the big failing... more info
horus heresy or not??? following on from the great book which was Fulgrim (5star book) i was looking forward to this one, (spoiler alert). Fans of warhammer 40,000 crave to know more about the background of the dark angels and all there secrets etc, and you wont be disappointed with the inclusion of primarch lion el'johnson , planet caliban (the rock) etc but we are talking about a book set in the horus heresy, and sadly this is why i rate this book 2 stars, its not aweful because you get snippets of backstory and how secretive... more info
I tend to agree with much of the sentiment of the other reviews Quite honestly I don't know what the point of this book is. It's set before all of the other novels in the heresy series and has no relevance to the other books at all. It has only the vaguest reference to the Dark Angels chapter that it claims to reveal all the hidden truths about. Primarch Lion El' Jonson is treated more as a subsidary character who remains on the periphery of the story all the way until the end. It seems to be the story of some guy who nobody's ever heard of or cares about becoming an... more info
