Reviews and Comments

Now that The End and the Death is finished i figured i should catch back up

Quite an enjoyable book. I’ve often found McNeill’s novels to be rather middling, but this one stands out from what I’ve read as quite good with some interesting characters. Would recommend.

Son of the Forest covers the awakening of Lionel Johnson just prior to the events of the Arks of Omen books and details who the Risen are. The novel does a good job of establishing the Lions character in M42 and his views on what has become of the Imperium over the last 10000 years. The Risen characters are also enjoyable characters to read, seeing how all of them came to become different from the stereotypes of both the Fallen, and the Dark Angels themselves. All of the action is well written too, although I found the final fight at the end of the novel to be a bit overdone. On the whole, the novel is still quite good, and is probably one of the novels I would recommend if someone asked what to read about the modern setting.

I'd like to start reading more Era Indomitus novels this year so this seems like a good start.

Yet again, another good novel as everyone knows to expect from Gaunt’s Ghosts and Abnett. This novel delves a lot more into the characters from Tanith which I really appreciate. Milo is probably one of my favorite characters so far, up there with Gaunt himself. So as expected, another great book, look forward to the next one.

I don’t know what i can say that isn’t already said about Gaunt’s Ghosts. Its a good novel that anyone can read without needing to be familiar with 40k. So yeah, good novel cant wait for the sequel.

Got given a bunch of old Warhammer novels, figured I should read that series everyone apparently loves.

The Infinite and The Divine is a really great novel. Following the semi-titular Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner, the novel follows the two over several millennia. We see how the act to each other, constantly screwing each other over while seeking the same goal, before coming together in the end.

Rath writes these two very well, they’re distinct in their personalities and are bother so fun to read. They aren’t just cracking jokes occasionally like you might see in other Warhammer fiction, but their actions convey the comedy.

A really good book overall, you don’t need to know much about Warhammer to understand it so it can be good for everyone.

Very interesting book that shows off how different Warhammer was decades ago. A lot of things that are very different today, like the Emperor apparently being worshiped before the end of the heresy by the Dark Angels. Theres also some very interesting writing choices, like the daemon Spittingbottom, or characters calling something the “lemonade of the soul”. Can’t say the book was really my style, but it was ok. If you want to see a very different take on the Warhammer universe though you might like it more.

Never heard of this book until I got it as a gift. Interested to see what its about.

A very interesting book that puts forward the idea that mass corporate media acts as propaganda for their owners and government. It gives plenty of evidence for this, though I think most people would already understand half way through the book, so it becomes a bit of a slog to get through later on. On the whole though, still a good book and something everyone should read to understand how the world functions.

A fun little light novel for people who like chainsaw man. Its enjoyable to see the characters being together, I especially like the last of the 4 stories. The book spoils the end of the Public Safety arc, so if you’ve pasted there and liked the characters I’d recommend this.

Intended to read this in time for Halloween, so I guess I technically made it in time.

A Thousand Sons is a novel about the Thousand Suns legion, and their time leading up to and during the Burning of Prospero. The novel is longer than many other Heresy no els but I’ll keep the review brief. The novel is fine, and unfortunately thats all I can really say. Magnus is a somewhat interesting character, and Ahriman is decent too, but I can’t say anything positive or negative about any of the other characters, they’re all just there and don’t feel important to the story. None of the other characters were particularly engaging and should have, in my opinion, been cut to focus on the almost titular faction. Regardless though, the novel wasn’t downright bad, just average, which is rather sad for such an interesting faction.