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Slaves to Darkness (The Horus Heresy)

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I Horus Rising • II False Gods • III Galaxy in Flames • IV The Flight of the Eisenstein • V Fulgrim • VI Descent of Angels • VII Legion • VIII Battle for the Abyss • IX Mechanicum • X Tales of Heresy • XI Fallen Angels • XII A Thousand Sons • XIII Nemesis • XIV The First Heretic • XV Prospero Burns • XVI Age of Darkness • XVII The Outcast Dead • XVIII Deliverance Lost • XIX Know No Fear • XX The Primarchs • XXI Fear to Tread • XXII Shadows of Treachery • XXIII Angel Exterminatus • XXIV Betrayer • XXV Mark of Calth • XXVI Vulkan Lives • XXVII The Unremembered Empire • XXVIII Scars • XXIX Vengeful Spirit • XXX The Damnation of Pythos • XXXI Legacies of Betrayal • XXXII Deathfire • XXXIII War Without End • XXXIV Pharos • XXXV Eye of Terra • XXXVI The Path of Heaven • XXXVII The Silent War • XXXVIII Angels of Caliban • XXXIX Praetorian of Dorn • XL Corax • XLI The Master of Mankind • XLII Garro • XLIII Shattered Legions • XLIV The Crimson King • XLV Tallarn • XLVI Ruinstorm • XLVII Old Earth • XLVIII The Burden of Loyalty • XLIX Wolfsbane • L Born of Flame • LI Slaves to Darkness • LII Heralds of the Siege • LIII Titandeath • LIV The Buried Dagger Argonis strode forwards. The Iron Circle twitched towards him but stilled as Perturabo turned to look at him. French succeeds in making the most unagreeable Primark in do a hero that you pull for throughout the story. for veterans of Warhammer 40K, that is a massive achievement. I The Solar War • II The Lost and the Damned • III The First Wall • Sons of the Selenar • IV Saturnine • Fury of Magnus • V Mortis • VI Warhawk • VII Echoes of Eternity • Garro: Knight of Grey • VIII The End and the Death ( Volume I • Volume II • Volume III)

We meet some new characters as well, including the magnificent Zardu Layak, who's been previously mentioned in Forge World books and even has his own model. The introduction of this space marine was absolutely fascinating to me, but I would definitely prefer to learn even more about him and to see his story unravel in more detail. The fact that this book tells many stories of rather different personalities could not give enough space for Layak to fully blossom. Basically, the plot is constantly interrupted by flights of descriptive fancy re. the warp and the webway. It matters very little to this author that these things have been done to death throughout the series. Critical plot points are interrupted time and again for pointless asides which do not drive the story, and critical moments such as the re-marshalling on Ullanor are skipped over with only vague details about events that occurred. There's always been a lot of characters in these novels but good writers focus on two or three and their experiences - French tries and fails to cover multiple at once, with only one or two plot lines being actually meaningful. Some of them are just rambling nonsense that add nothing to the story and interrupt events.What were highlights for me in this novel? Well, I loved the Orcus part a lot, the scenes in the webway, the meeting with Fulgrim and all the stuff there. But surely also the scenes at Deluge, the one with Kharn for example, the one with Angron and Perturabo off course too. Loved the scene with Horus in the warp, or dream or whatever or wherever it was, him fighting and fighting , on and on, not wishing to submit. The Ullanor scenes were also very nice, some real emotion there, sometimes gave me the chills. These scenes combined the past (both within the series but also as an reading experience for us readers) with the now and upcoming future (siege of terra and Horus ultimate fate). The conversations between Horus and Mal, about making choices, about lies, about being nobody's slave, good stuff, bringing a bit the old HH feeling with it (Horus rising, the first part of False gods .... seems like another era almost). It's been a while, but I'm finally here. Up to date with the Horus Heresy, aside from a few minor things I skipped and plan to catch up on in the nearest future. This book started out nicely, intriguing and exceptionally atmospheric, yet I did not get everything I wanted from it. I feel like I will have to read it again to fully appreciate the experience. My initial excitement was based on the fact that I always preferred reading about the traitor legions, their stories being more deep and complicated, often having better character development. I did not get enough of it here. I can't see this novel being enjoyable as a stand alone, which is a major issue for me personally. I believe each book in the series has to be readable and understandable to a person who has't read every other thing published before it and I see this one relying heavily on the previous HH pieces. Lorgar ha estado plenenado esta guerra durante decadas.. La mera vision de las naves es una prueba de eso. Recordalo, todos vosotros cada vez que sintáis la tentacion de confiar en una de esas serpierntes en rojo" So, we come to the obvious question: which of the three storylines was the best? Layak, Maloghurst or Argonis. Difficult to say, very difficult. The Layak one was a strong one for sure, but the others were great too.

The reason I highlight these two, in particular, is that the book needed a solid basis for the others to work from and build the rest of the narrative around. Without that, the story would have been utterly overburdened in trying to divide its focus between so many different primarchs, their subordinates, and other characters besides. While the likes of Lorgar and Malgohurst also serve as a means to drive the narrative forward - and it's always nice to see the Twisted take a front row seat again - it needed a bolder and more brazenly examine the inherent problem the traitors suffer: Chaos is chaos. From its wonderfully penned opening to its dramatic conclusion French shows off his masterful use of the written word by showing not only the divisions between the Primarch's but also those Horus holds closest to him in his own legion. His adapt use of colourful descriptions as he shows the audience the true inner struggle that the Horus of old fights daily as well as his self delusions that he can somehow retain his own psyche and ultimately master the forces that move him, gave this reader something of a forlorn hope that the Warmaster may indeed see the error of his ways, even while knowing all the while he will not.

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Jonathan Keeble reading of the book was excellent, is his work always is. I don't think that there has been an audio production featuring John Keeble that has not been excellent. the range of acted voices which he can provide is impressive. To me this book feels like a clean up operation, 50 books in and still not all pieces were in place for the big finale, the siege of Terra and it feels as if they did not want to just make them show up at the first book of that series so they had to write their final gathering before the big push. But at the same time they also wanted to write a story of Lorgar who was tempted to grab power from Horus, they also wanted to talk about lingering doubts within Horus, they felt a need to give Leaman Russ's spear assault a bit more meaning, they wanted to write how the first Iron warrior obliterator came to be, they wanted to make a symbolic reconnection to Horus big triumph at Ullanor and present this twisted dark mirror and they wanted Angron and Perturabo to have a fight and they .... See what I am trying to say here? It was like they had this pot full of ideas that never had gotten their moment and decided to pour them all in one book. It is just to much.

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