The End and the Death

512 pages

English language

Published by Black Library.

ISBN:: 978-1-80407-488-6

(1 review)

The Great Angel, Sanguinius, lies slain at his brother’s hand. Terra burns as reality itself unravels and the greatest bastion of civilisation teeters on the brink of annihilation.

Desperate defenders gather, banding against the rabid traitor hordes. The Hollow Mountain, host to the pilgrims of Euphrati Keeler, is one of the last redoubts, held by the Dark Angels while the unclean host of Typhus lays siege. Malcador the Sigillite sits ablaze on the Golden Throne, trying to buy his master more time. But time is running out…

Guilliman races across the stars to reinforce the Throneworld. Will he return to ashes, where a Warmaster of Chaos has ascended to godhood, or will the Emperor have triumphed? And at what cost? It all comes down to one final, climactic confrontation: the Emperor versus Horus. The father against the son.

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PatentedGraph53 reviewed The End and the Death by Dan Abnett (The Siege of Terra, #10)

Siege of Terra: The End and the Death: Volume 3: Review

2 stars

The End and the Death: Volume 3 is the End and the Death of me. Its the final part of the final novel of the final subline of the Horus Heresy and I really wish that it was better for a series I’ve been reading for the last 5 years. When it comes down to the negatives of the book, they’re pretty much all the same as my complaints for Volume 2. There are too many plot lines that don’t feel like they matter, the Dark King doesn’t really matter whatsoever, and its just too long. The fight between Horus and the Emperor was featured in a short story all the way back in 1988 in Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned, and I just wish that the duel in this book was better. In the original William King short story Horus gets a nice little speech to …

The End and the Death: Volume 3 is the End and the Death of me. Its the final part of the final novel of the final subline of the Horus Heresy and I really wish that it was better for a series I’ve been reading for the last 5 years. When it comes down to the negatives of the book, they’re pretty much all the same as my complaints for Volume 2. There are too many plot lines that don’t feel like they matter, the Dark King doesn’t really matter whatsoever, and its just too long. The fight between Horus and the Emperor was featured in a short story all the way back in 1988 in Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned, and I just wish that the duel in this book was better. In the original William King short story Horus gets a nice little speech to the Emperor, which is basically just homaged in the novel, and the fight lass several chapters. It feels like the book is confusing an epic conclusion for a long one. Of course there is also the little recurring feature of warhammer novels of the chad loyalist vs the soy traitor conversation, where a traitor talks about their conviction just for a loyalist to respond with essentially ‘nuh uh’ or ‘i know you are but what am i’. Here it is between Horus and Loken, and I dislike it just as much as usual.

For the positives, I like Abaddon i guess. It was shorter than volume 2, it made it drag on less so thats good. Really the fact that Abnett is good at writing is the only thing making the book remotely enjoyable. In the end (and the death) this 3 parter has left me very sadly disappointed that this is 50 books lead up to. For the 3 parts together id probably give the book 4/10? Maybe that will change if I ever reread them, but thats all it gets for now.