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JoeGuardsman · 05-15-2007

Battle cries were fine, you kind of need them unless you are the Sisters of Silence.

If anyone has read James Swallow's "master piece" Deus then you know he has no clue about the Warhammer Universe. His numbers and concepts of power were very much aschew with the table top game and any previous novelization. He kills the entire number of the Blood Angles Chapter thinking that there was 1,000 brothers in in a company, and a dude kills a dreadnaught with a chain sword while surrounded by blood letters. I digress that is for another book review post and an ugly one at that.

The book starts off far behind where the first one left off, which made me upset as I has over-paid at 1,900 yen for the book. After paying that much money I was hoping for as much forward progress as I could get. The opening involves a pathetic little character and some terrible writing furthering my depression but in the end it all pays off.

Swallow gets a decent grasp of his characters as the tension builds in the middle of the book and you grow to love all of them, even a tiny little human house keeper. The charaters begin to jump out and the decisions and emotional conflict between the imperial truth and the cult of the emperor couldn't have been done much better.

That is as much as I'll write as I don't want to spoil or bore you.

05-15-2007	#3 (permalink)
JoeGuardsman Corporal Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Back in NYC Posts: 435 Rep Power: 2 Thanks: 3 Thanked 22 Times in 21 Posts	Battle cries were fine, you kind of need them unless you are the Sisters of Silence. If anyone has read James Swallow's "master piece" Deus then you know he has no clue about the Warhammer Universe. His numbers and concepts of power were very much aschew with the table top game and any previous novelization. He kills the entire number of the Blood Angles Chapter thinking that there was 1,000 brothers in in a company, and a dude kills a dreadnaught with a chain sword while surrounded by blood letters. I digress that is for another book review post and an ugly one at that. The book starts off far behind where the first one left off, which made me upset as I has over-paid at 1,900 yen for the book. After paying that much money I was hoping for as much forward progress as I could get. The opening involves a pathetic little character and some terrible writing furthering my depression but in the end it all pays off. Swallow gets a decent grasp of his characters as the tension builds in the middle of the book and you grow to love all of them, even a tiny little human house keeper. The charaters begin to jump out and the decisions and emotional conflict between the imperial truth and the cult of the emperor couldn't have been done much better. That is as much as I'll write as I don't want to spoil or bore you. __________________ "Only the insane have strength enough to prosper, only those that prosper may truly judge what is sane."