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One of the best 40k books I have read

Revisado: 05-07-23

Chris Wraight is an excellent author, one of my favorites among those at Black Library. This book is in my opinion his personal best (and that's saying something, he's really really good). The characters and plot drag you in slowly, with two alternating storylines, one taking place prior to the current. This disjointed approach leads to several big payoffs as motivations are revealed out of "the past" in time for the reader to understand "the present." The characters are made to feel very human; despite being daemon corrupted piles of rot and disease, Wraight makes them feel understandable, if not exactly relatable. The Death Guard have an interesting juxtaposed nature in more ways than one, and he has captured it perfectly and woven it into an important story revealing big details of the initial events of the Dark Imperium storylines. Highly recommend for anyone that enjoys a good book, 40k or not.

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One of the best in the series

Revisado: 09-14-22

A lot of threads, slowly drawn together. Aaron Dembski-Bowden is an incredibly gifted author, his elegant plotlines are always full of depth and demand 2nd, 3rd, and 4th readings (and more), to capture it all and find the foreshadowing hidden in plain sight throughout.

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Among the best of 40k novels

Revisado: 07-28-21

This book is not just an excellent portrayal of a slice of time in Warhammer: 40k, it's a great read even for those relatively unfamiliar with the universe. Bowden does a a great job capturing a lot of human stories, combined with a well balanced plot full of highs and lows for every character. Keeble is the perfect narrator, especially for a writer in the style of Bowden, and does amazing job making every character more or less recognizable by by voice alone. The stereotypical brooding space marine is turned on its head; every one is very human, with guardsmen (it's impossible to not love Andre), citizens, generals, tanks, fighters, titans, even a bit of space action making this a very complete picture of the defense of a single city, the limited scope making the Armageddon war much more relatable.

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Excellent writing, bad narration

Revisado: 02-18-21

This is one of the best, and arguably most important, books in the Heresy series. The authorship is masterly, Dembski-Bowden does an excellent job combining the sci-fi and fantasy elements of the 40k universe, and really establishes the Word Bearers place in the storyline. His style is somewhat classical, sometimes feels like it was written in the 18th or 19th century. However, Gareth Armstrong is one of the worst narrators on Audible. He has such a nice rich voice, great for plain narration parts (and you would think also for the deep-voiced Space Marines and Primarchs). Unfortunately, he is not very adept at character voicing, most characters sound the same, especially women (of which there are several in this story). Bad guys rarely sound like anything other than goblins, regardless of who or what they are. He also utilizes an unusual "yodeling" voice for certain characters that is simply ridiculous. Again, he is excellent when simply reading scene descriptions (and, to be fair, the occasional character) but overall hurts an otherwise amazing book. I would love to hear him narrate a non-fiction book with no dialog. When a book has such a mix of characters, I think a narrator along the lines of a Simon Prebble, capable of maintaining a large range of unique voices, would be far more appropriate.

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Probably the best Salamanders book

Revisado: 04-28-20

Nick Kyme does an excellent job addressing the origins of the m40 Salamanders, and their particular culture/quirks in this book, as well as a few other legions. Concerning a small number of characters, all with their own interweaving storylines (both loyalist and traitor), but primarily a handful of high-ranking Salamanders, there are a few insights into the bigger picture of the Horus Heresy itself. Jonathan Keeble is among my favorite narrators on audible (check out The Winter King, by Bernard Cornwell), and he always makes the characters feel more alive.

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Truly Excellent

Revisado: 03-19-20

David Fitzgerald is a superb communicator of the subject. While not as thorough (or perhaps I mean deep-diving?) as Carrier's On the Historicity of Jesus, this trilogy of books is an excellent break-down of the construction of the Jesus character, and of Christianity itself. Fitzgerald takes this subject seriously, but he is a legitimately funny writer. I really enjoyed him reading his own audiobook.

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One of the best stand-aloners I've read in a while

Revisado: 11-22-19

Truly one of the best 40k books I've read. Great dual-purpose novel; part stand-alone space marine book, part lore fill-in. Definitely starting to see a pattern in all the current lore books, without spoiling anything...

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Awesome

Revisado: 01-15-19

One of the best of the series so far. Perturabo was a relative mystery to me, and he now seems like one of the more interesting Primarchs, especially among the Traitors. He is a complex character in an elegant plot, and the addition of regular (and excellent) action sequences make for some tense reading. Angel Exterminatus is longer than many (maybe most) of the H.H., and it flew by for me, not in small part to David Timson's great narration.

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An incredibly important book

Revisado: 07-16-18

The issues are highlighted in exquisite detail, and then final portion of the books presents a sampling of proposed solutions. Extremely intricate (but clear and methodical) breakdown of the massively complex, multi-pronged assault on science and education in the modern workd.

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Phenomenal

Revisado: 06-24-18

Aron Ra absolutely has taken a place on my shelf next to Daniel Dennet, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens. Creationism isn't the only negative force in the world today, but with the undoing of education as its primary goal, I feel that it is one of the most urgent. Every year another class passes out of high school, and another enters kindergarten.

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