The book starts with a setting of the scene of war – which is essentially a series of short stories of those fighting. Wow… how do you fit all that in? There are so many Primarchs still left on Terra or interacting with Terra, and there must have been a strong temptation to tell these stories, but Dembski-Bowden doesn’t – or rather he does, but through the eyes of others. Without his brothers, Sanguinius – the Angel of the Ninth Legion – waits on the final battlements, hoping to rally a desperate band of defenders and refugees for one last stand. Rogal Dorn is encircled, fighting his own war at Bhab Bastion. For the Emperor’s beleaguered forces, the end has come. Angron, Herald of Horus, has achieved immortality through annihilation – now he leads the armies of the damned in a wrathful tide, destroying all before them as the warp begins its poisonous corruption of Terra. The Warmaster’s horde advances through the fire and ash of Terra’s dying breaths, forcing the loyalists back to the Delphic Battlement, the very walls of the Sanctum Imperialis. It has everything you’ll know from the previous books with swords and arrows flying, death all around and Gotrek and Felix at the centre of the storm and all the events.ĭespite the death of the World that Was, Gotrek novels set in the Old-World are still great reads, and I would still recommend reading them if you haven’t before. The story flies along, with a character returning from previous books and Felix must prove that he a worthy wielder of his sword. Nathan Long’s stories have development for Felix (because the only real development for Gotrek is to die!), and it’s good to see. This is not surprising as Gotrek developed by William King was already a full character with Felix being more of a sidekick. Will Gotrek & Felix be able to prevent the Shaman and save the Empire from this latest, grave threat?Īt book 11, the Gotrek and Felix books are really morphing into the Felix and Gotrek books. Magic which turns those near to it into Beasts as well. The horde are moving a Herdstone to the centre of the Empire in order to unleash it’s magic. Overall a good book, but you really need to have read the Shattered Legion novels from Horus Heresy first.ĭwarf Trollslayer Gotrek and his human companion Felix Jaeger, Warhammer’s most famous pair of heroes, head off to a new adventure in the latest novel of this best-selling fantasy series against a horde of beastmen who threaten the safety of the Empire. They fly, fight, kill and die whilst struggling to save the secrets of Gene-manipulation… and there’s some more history about the Emperor thrown in for good measure. The writing is of course good as we’ve come to expect from Graham McNeill but the characters are already developed, and I would have liked to have a little more description of them, even if it would have been superfluous for those who’ve read all the Horus Heresy novels. There is only a minimal link to the Siege of Terra proper – they are on Luna – and Black Library could easily have released it alongside. This story has what you need in a Horus Heresy novella, but it should probably have been released under that series and not the Siege of Terra series. This then left the writers of the Siege of Terra books in a quandary – the need to close this particular story-arc, but not confuse people who are just reading the Siege of Terra – like me!Īnd they have succeeded – sort of. The characters have all been introduced in some depth in the Horus Heresy series and – as I note above – have already have adventures, battles and close-calls within that series. This is a strange – but I imagine essential – addition to the Siege of Terra, and I can understand why it is a novella and not part of the main story arc. Ancient technology is under threat from the Sons of Horus and they are being called to help. The Shattered Legions – a group of loyalists separated from their own legions, find themselves hiding in the solar system following a void battle, when they receive a call for help from the surface of Luna. Here, their bonds of loyalty, duty, and their devotion to one another will be tested as ancient horrors of the earliest days of gene-manipulation are unleashed, and a long-buried secret is revealed.Ī secret that will have far-reaching consequences for the future course of the galaxy, no matter who eventually claims Terra. The Shattered Legions crew of the Sisypheum, broken and at the end of their endurance, find themselves divided – torn between following their resurrected captain on a suicidal mission or obeying orders to return to Terra and rejoin their Legion brothers.įollowing a series of garbled messages intercepted by the Kryptos, the divided warriors descend to the shattered surface of Luna.
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