Slam bang world ending war! Glimpses intoHorus and the Emperor. Solid story.

With the last several books, we’ve seen a growing trend among big installments. While showing no signs of halting the ongoing exploration of the Imperium’s last days as a semi-benevolent empire and the war which destroyed all, it’s hard not to notice there’s been some streamlining. Rather than the episodic or semi-individual stories we had previously, many novels now directly link into countless short tales and other books. We saw this with Betrayer, Scars and Unremembered Empire, and even Vulka...

Too many story lines, all of which may have been good on there own as 300+ page novels. But in this book they come off as half baked and poorly developed. Which is a shame. Just focusing on the Knights and Horus/mournval would have made for a much tighter and focused readAlso because I am not willing to splash out on everything the BL does, all there over priced audiobooks and mini-novellas I wasn't aware that Loken was back from the dead. I was disappointed when Garro was spun off into this med...

Wait, Loken's alive?The main character from the opening of this series who was apparently dead and buried and gone gone gone, just suddenly randomly pops up in this one and he's alive?Because there was an obscure audio-play that brought him back?Whut?See, this is the problem, it is unreasonable to expect the readers to listen to every single audio play, every single tiny little short story GW release as ridiculously over-priced padding. Most of the readers I would wager are just reading the main...

I cannot believe how bad this book was. I mean I've read all the horus heresy and this should is easily the worst out yet, I was extremely dissapointed.

I absolutely loved this book, it blew me away. I read the last 250 pages in one go, I was so into it. I can't say much without spoilers but.. I thought this book contained like the final battle on Terra? All the Horus Heresy reading charts seem to flow to this particular book. Now that I think about it, I never actually heard anywhere that this was the book of the final battle, I just assumed. Well we all know what happens when you assume. This book was marvelously epic in it's own right anyway....

This was easily one of the best HH books written. Great dialogue, character arcs that are meaningful. And finally portrayal of characters as not painfully edgy. A very solid view of Horus and his Legion... Without all the edgy bad guy. (badass villain with motives ftw!)A great read, I'd suggest it to all HH fans. It does go between 4 POV so if you don't like that swap this may not be the book for you.

What an amazing read. The story of the Imperium, the culminating heresy and the plans for the future of Terra all come to a head in this novel. We get glimpses into many of the Primarch's whereabouts and motives, especially the traitor ones and get a really concise view of why Horace still feels what he's doing is right. And to my great pleasure, we get a look into one of the knight houses and how much they mean to any army's victory.Amazing read.

holy cats this book took forever to finish. Full disclosure, the book was fine, but i just wasn't feelin' the Horus Heresy as much as i thought i was when i started it.Graham McNeill can be a little "hit or miss" for me. Sometimes his books are great and really scratch an itch, and other times i just can't get into it. This book was very much in the 2nd category. Overall it was fine, and some important stuff happened. But my biggest complaint was when it came time for all the action. The actual

The much anticipated Sons of Horus -story has its ups and downs. Regardless my personal opinion I recommend reading this one.I don't like bolter p*rn, and this book has it plenty; which takes us to my word of conclusion: Disappointment. Or well, at least a 50/50 disappointment. The best parts of the story are really REALLY good, but the book would've done better with ~200 pages less that, more or less, includes the whole battle.The best selling quality 40K books are that prevail in plot and dial...

Damnital! See what I did there. Graham McNeill is basically the only author in the BL who seems to either care or just get the assignments that push the story forward. How long has it been since Counter crushed me with the death of Loken? Too long. Loken is back and leading a squad of Malcador and Garro's Knights to infiltrate Horus' flagship, Vengeful Spirit. Aside from Loken so many great characters from the books and audio dramas are back. Oh and by the way, sarcastic voice, Horus has found t...

Overall I was really disappointed by this book.It had some good points through the story, but it just felt like it was a 'lets jam our latest products in here' by GW.It is a shame as this is the first book I have been disappointed to read by McNeill.I would rate this as the the 3rd worse in the series after 'Battle for the Abyss' and 'Descent of Angels'.

Horus goes and fights shit.That's pretty much it, there's some kind of mystic power thing, but it feels not really that relevant, McNeill aays in the afterword that he petty much wanted to just focus on Horus (which works) and return to the Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus characters in the first few books. Both of these things are nice, and the fighting itself is pretty nicely described, with Horus showing off all th qualities he's got: Brute force, guile and deceit and supernatural powers, to win. Bu...

Graham McNeill has two kinds of books. First one is in my opinion not bad, just "meh" (yes I am looking at you Ultramarines and Sigmar, or Outcast Dead for the that matter.) Second kind could be described as "Holy Shit DID YOU SEE THAT! Wow that was unexptected, wait what?! Oh my it is going to.. etcetera etcetera" Vengeful Spirit is the second kind.Yes, it has another Perpetual sideplot and boring one for that matter. And Imperator class titans are becoming punching bags on par with Avatars of

With several story lines active - sometimes with jarring lack of transition, I could not lock on to any of them as interesting. I loved seeing Loken's return to the series (outside of the Garro spinoff), but his plotline felt lifeless and inconsequential. We are introduced to yet another eternal with no explanation or back story. Horus himself remains an inconsistently painted character... is he the ruthless evil from one book, or is he the tragic hero from another? Or is he the pathetic fool fr...

Epic. This was a real page turner for me. Death Guard, Sons of Horus, Fulgrim, Ultramarines, Dorn, Knights Errant, Russ, Blood Angels and an Eternal! Too much, too much...

So I tried to read this book two years ago, the translated version. It was weird, short, blurry ending. Then I figured out the book was not fully translated so I just read a part of it, oh well. Now I decided to get back to it and give it another shot, in English. NOW SPOILERS. Not a fan, not at all. Even though McNeill's writing is fairly good, the events in this book are upsetting to say the least, and not in a good way. It's not a tragedy that rips your heart out of your chest, no, it's just

The battle of Molech. The transmogrification of Horus. The return of Gavriel & Iacton to the Vengeful Spirit.Some HH books are these "ohby the way" kind of stories. We all know the tale, it was 10,000 years ago. So much so that it is now really just vague legend. So we miss all the small chess moves that made up the greater story. But too many stories are... rather pointless. There were twinned, failed assassination attempts back in book... 5 or so. Oh, okay. But they failed, other than one of t...

(3 stars)

I was reading this for (view spoiler)[ Loken (hide spoiler)] and for a while I was annoyed at most of the parts of the story that did not involve him. Fortunately I read the story really slow: because of that I could savor the parts with the character I liked and stop reading when the other characters started to annoy me. As a result, I actually came around to enjoying the nuances in even the most vile, repulsive, reprehensible, and despicable characters.It never ceases to amaze me that, even a...