Zero

Decent idea, poor execution

Revisado: 04-20-25

As the title of the review says, decent idea, poor execution, some scene switches make no sense, this book (and the previous) desperately need an editor.

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A bit slow to start but it moves along quickly

Revisado: 11-20-24

Overall a good story, jumps forward to the action so you don’t spend a lot of time in the boring in between moments

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Excellent writing, great narration

Revisado: 07-29-23

I really enjoyed the omnipresent Cypher telling the story, I think a lot of people will be annoyed by the fact we don’t get many hard/fast “answers” or “facts” about Cypher’s purpose, but I’m satisfied with the ending, and reading between the lines I think French drops some major hints about Cypher’s purpose in going to Terra

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One of the best in the new Warhammer

Revisado: 05-05-23

Mike Brooks is quickly becoming one of my favorite Warhammer authors, and although I haven’t been a fan of some other Dark Angel centric books this was honestly great, probably one of the best books out of the new Warhammer. It’s notable it isn’t the typical “bait and switch” we often see from the Black Library, where a supposedly primarch centered book is almost entirely told from the viewpoint of space marines characters who often aren’t even in the presence of the Primarch. This is evenly split between the Lion and one new Dark Angel character, who is quite interesting himself.

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All characters are bad at communicating

Revisado: 04-16-23

Much as I enjoy these books, I dislike when the only way the plot can continue is if characters just refuse to talk to each other and say the obvious thing for zero reason, and that is this entire book. Characters consistently could resolve the situation with a sentence, get right up to the point of saying it, then just don’t.

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Truly half a story

Revisado: 03-11-23

It’s an ok story, honestly one of Dan Abnett’s weaker efforts. There are plenty of random and seemingly meaningless asides with Keeler, random Space Marines, and others that go nowhere and don’t appear to have any impact whatsoever on the overall story. The Ol Person story is especially annoying because they are so completely and totally inept and without plan, they’re just stumbling from place to place hoping they can talk their way in to an audience with the Emperor without giving any reason for it. The story with Pho and the biological weapon against space marines / Primarchs seems like another pointless side story. Nothing is resolved here, and much of it has the feeling of filler.

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A satisfying end

Revisado: 12-19-22

The series has had its ups and downs, but this is a satisfying, if open, end to the story.

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Meh, mediocre and not worth the price

Revisado: 11-04-22

Butcher isn’t too bad of a narrator, he does tend to over enunciate at times.

The story itself just isn’t that great, a third of it is dresden just trying in the most incompetent way to intimidate people, the dialogue and basic premise of the story aren’t that compelling, you can almost hear Butcher tipping his fedora and saying “M Lady” to the random former hooker turned tutor. This story might have been ok for $6, but for $20-$30? Absolutely not

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The good, the bad, the terrible

Revisado: 10-18-22

As many others have pointed out, the first part of the story is great as usual, the second half was exceptionally terrible. Not necessarily the technical writing, just the basic premise was painfully lazy on Craig Alanson’s part.

*SPOILER*

Bishop and Adams continue the “will they won’t they get into a relationship” thing. Out of nowhere Skippy discovers human civilians are being held by Krystang as test subjects for a bio weapon to be used against Paradise. If that plot sounds familiar, it should, CA completely recycled a plot from a few books back. This is just dumb because Skippy has had access to numerous relay stations and at one point the actual Krystang homeworld, it is not in any way plausible that he’s JUST NOW finding this out. BUT WAIT, there’s more. Not only are these all civilians (not “keepers”), they’re mostly starving, abused CHILDREN, not only that, Adams finds a girl that JUST SO HAPPENS to look JUST LIKE her *cue eye roll* and then demands Bishop put saving all of humanity on hold to save those kids.

Meanwhile Bishop catches Adams casually kissing another person, THEN, when they go to pick up more ‘operators’ from Paradise to save the kidnapped kids it JUST SO HAPPENS on of those dozen people is Adams EX who she was super serious about. *cue another eye roll*.

After saving the kids Skippy finally gives his big reveal about his origins, and CA does it in the laziest way possible. No actual dialogue, Bishop just reads it off like a laundry list.

The second half completely ruined this book for me. CA went from being a great author to someone who needs to stick to writing Mary Sue fanfics.

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Simply Awesome

Revisado: 06-07-22

Honestly one of the best WH books I’ve read in awhile, and easily better than most of the post-rift Primaris books. It’s not a long book but the pacing is good and it doesn’t get bogged down. It also covers some major events and advances the overall story. Unlike many WH books it’s not a bait and switch where most of the POV isn’t even the main character. The only other character is a magos that’s pretty interesting. I think the interplay between traitor marines is particularly well done also. The narration by Andrew Wincott is fantastic for traitor marines, he’s easily a new favorite. Definitely don’t pass this one up!

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