Reviews and Comments

Well-written space adventure. Serves as a transition from the opening trilogy and the ongoing storyline of the series. Really a story about despair and finding your way out of it. For Garro it’s through faith. Good to see Qruze take a bigger role. I hope we get to see more of him throughout the series.

A good finale to the opening trilogy. As with the previous novel, my biggest critique is the quickness and totality of Horus’ turn to chaos. Good battle scenes, though I wish there was a bit more to the novel than that.

A great continuation of the series, though not as strong as the first. Horus’ fall to chaos was a little too sudden and contrived. I mean, we all know Horus falls to Chaos, it shouldn’t be played as a “will he-won’t he?” Anyway, I liked this book as much the second time ‘round. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

Dan Abnett’s the best in the game, what can I say?

This is my second read through the book. The first one was in 2006 when it came out. There was a lot I remembered and a lot I forgot. It was good to re-read to get another measure of Horus. A great character, who meant well and was conspired against by his own “brother” to begin his downfall.

A great story with interesting characters, plots, backgrounds, and pacing. You really can’t beat Dan Abnett for 40K—or in this case, 30k—fiction.

Brutal Warhammer fiction at its finest. A ton of war that was a little hard to follow at times, but interesting stuff about sieges.

Decent book that talks about how anyone can be creative. I was worried this would be a “self-help book,” but I actually enjoyed it. I didn’t learn a ton, though. Possibly because the stuff talked about in the book is pretty standard today, as opposed to forty years ago.

Real cool book. Lots to think about. I thought it would be scarier, based on what people told me about it. It’s really more of a love story. I really liked it, and how much it plays with the structure of a novel. Very “meta!”

The gold standard of vampire and horror books. What can I say? It’s a great adventure that focuses more on the friendship of the hunters than on Dracula himself.

Good read. Stephen A. is an entertaining and smart guy. I can’t help but feel that this is the most ‘ordinary’ biography I’ve ever read.

Great adventure story. Good characters even if they don’t really develop throughout the story. Too bad there won’t be any more books in this series seeing as it ends on kind of a cliffhanger.

A great selection of horror stories in the Warhammer universes. Grim and unrelenting.

Some of the writing here is a little goofy. There are some grim battle scenes, but the characters prance and jape their way through them. A lot more exposition than necessary. The story also jumps around too much, and I honestly don’t know why any of the Mirt sections were in there.

It was alright. Neat story that went on a little long, and the characters were okay.

Great fight scenes. Good plot. Some scenes felt like chaff. The characters grew on me real quick.