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Approaching the end of the Siege, Echoes of Eternity covers the battle at the eternity gate, one of the last lines of defense for the loyalists. Like Warhawk, this novel very much focuses on one loyalist legion, that being the Blood Angels, and you can tell that ADB really wanted to write them. If I recall correctly he had wanted to use the Blood Angels, specifically Nasir Amit and his Flesh Tearers as the antagonists of the novel Betrayer, and now he gets to write about them he develops them well. I was surprised when during a flashback from Amit’s perspective I actually felt disgusted at the kind of person he is, a feeling I don’t recall feeling with other marines throughout the series. Of course we also follow ADB’s other recurring characters like Zephon and Land, and they are both still enjoyable to read with the rhythm between them. One this I quite liked about the novel is how we never really see Sanguinius’ perspective of the current battle, its alway the people around him that we see. This is much like how he treated the Emperor in Master of Mankind, as some giant entity we cannot truely understand. Additionally, seeing Lotara Sarin on the Conqueror is great, this is probably the last time we’ll see her for a while and the position she is left on is rather fitting I’d say. Once again, this second half of Siege novels is a big improvement on the beginning of it, and Im excited to see how it all Ends and Deaths or some other play on words.