The End and the Death: Volume I (Volume 8) [Hardcover] Abnett, Dan [Hardcover] Abnett, Dan

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Unfortunately, the Oll Persson subplot is decaying in quality, mainly due to John Grammaticus' pestiferous presence. The Emperor, a shining beacon of hope to many, an unscrupulous tyrant to others, must die. The lives of uncountable numbers have been extinguished and even primarchs, once thought immortal, have been laid low. The Emperor's dream lies in tatters, but there remains a sliver of hope. Discussion thread for the first instalment of the two-part finale of the Siege of Terra series. The Garro novella will be released in January. It's the beginning of the ultimate conclusion to the Horus Heresy, and hope still remains for the Loyalists! The Emperor plans a gambit that could snatch victory from the jaws of defeat – but at what cost? So all we had to do was make it all work, make it coherent, make it fit together, fill in those gaps, and do justice to the well-known sections. You can’t let readers down by changing things, or by not giving them what they quite rightly expect to see. But readers also want to be surprised and to learn things they didn’t know. That’s a lot of hours spent planning, debating, arguing, inventing… I suppose what I’m saying is that we all knew it was a major project that would take years to complete, and we were all determined to stay the course and get it done. On the other hand, it seems genuinely unreal to finally be reaching the end.

As with all the other entries in this series Jonathan Keeble has been consistent, flexible and clever with his delivery. It is finally here. The first volume of the endgame of the Siege of Terra and the Horus Heresy as a whole, a story spanning sixty books written by over a dozen writers. It is fitting that Dan Abnett, the author who penned the first book, Horus Rising, which released in 2006, is the one to finish it. To deliver a satisfying conclusion to such an incredibly expansive and epic story would be a monumental task for any writer and I cannot imagine the pressure and amount of work that went into it. What I can say is that Abnett has risen to this challenge like the Emperor himself rising from the Golden Throne one last time.I think if you cant read a novella in say 5 days then theres something wrong with you or your life is busy as hell. It took me about 10 days to read EoE and I have a busy life. Generally I read books faster when I love them and quite honestly I would say ADB is so good it would be a tradgedy if people werent talking about him 100 years from now. I am glad I was not the only one to feel that way. I was genuinely looking forward to the end but damn that first book is a pure slog. Abnett sometimes has an issue of rushed endings. It is as though he gets so excited during the writing process and expands on plots and sub plots and character asides, that he only belatedly realises he has a word count brief to hit. There are a few books of his that would have benefitted from another 10,000 words to achieve a fully satisfying ending. Dan does a amazing job of bringing together a vast cast of characters from across the series and giving them all their due. This book is telling the story we know of the end of the heresy but constantly provides fresh revelations, deep cuts to 40K lore, brand new ideas and meaningful characterization. This was just for Malcador's scenes and makes sense as that is the way he would think, with his vast knowledge and being so erudite. It wasn't like this throughout the rest of the book.

The walls have fallen, the gates are breached, and the defenders are slain. It is the end and the death. After seven brutal years of civil war, the Warmaster stands on the verge of victory. Horus Lupercal, once beloved son, has come to murder his father. The Emperor, a shining beacon of hope to many, an unscrupulous tyrant to others, must die. The lives of uncountable numbers have been extinguished and even primarchs, once thought immortal, have been laid low. The Emperor's dream lies in tatters, but there remains a sliver of hope. The arch-traitor Horus Lupercal's forces have bombarded Terra and the Imperial Palace lies in ruins. With the Emperor's dream in tatters, he seeks only to rob Chaos of its ultimate victory... And the boys of Caliban, the Dark Angels going all weak at the knee's because of a little Typhus magic? They went at it like little girls,.until they were rescued by one enigmatic anti hero...no spoilers. Thank the emperor he was there eh? Difficult to accept their almost total capitulation and nah, I don't buy it. Never in all the ages of Terra has a lions son, or even a custodes felt so weak or fought so poor.Massive fan of the break up chapters which glance over snippets of the horror of the galactic civil wars culmination (several chapters titled “Fragments”). Dan: If you’d told me at the start it was going to take 17 years and 60-plus novels, I’d have laughed in your face and doubted I would still be there at the end. But now we’ve reached the final moments, that seems entirely reasonable and barely enough. I’m really proud of the work we’ve done. And the Horus Heresy has occupied part of my headspace for all that time, so I’m going to miss it when it’s over. If you can imagine thinking, “I always knew we’d do it” and “I can’t believe we’ve done it” at the same time, you’ll be close to my current mental state. Another bloated entry in the Siege of Terra series, featuring ADHD storytelling, glacial pacing and a meandering plot. The first half of the book is genuinely amazing, a mood piece, seeing 60+ books of main characters all reduced to essentially Dark souls NPC's in a world that has well and truly fallen apart.

A perfectly fine novel that could have used some significant editing and the surgical removal of several of the sub plots that primarily serve to ensure everyone’s favourite characters are mentioned at least once. There’s definitely a really strong Warhammer novel in there somewhere, and if the viewpoint characters had been restricted to Loken, Corswain, Sindermann, Malcador, Horus, Sanguinius and Oll we might have found it. Instead the tour round minor characters detracted severely from the pace of the novel. “Oh, here we go, Fafnir Ran is killing things again” was not the enduring takeaway I expected after Johnathan Keble (who puts in the usual hard yards as the audiobook narrator) spoke his last. These scenes would be better left to a short story compilation than trying to squeeze them into a mainline novel. I honestly did not expect the most artistically impressive book I read this year to be a 40k one, yet here we are. Now, Dan Abnett has been kind of the father of the language of the Imperium for decades at this point, going all the way to the Eisenhorn novels where he introduced a lot of the strange-but-familiar terms that have come to define the Imperial side of the setting since then. I look forward to more of the same in Part 2. Perhaps we could get a closer look at the Warmaster’s morning routine and finally answer the question of whether he preferred his eggs scrambled or sunny side up. Scintillating. What incredible writing. What an incredible narration. Abnett and Keeble have always delivered and that doesnt change hear. So….this is it then: the end of the journey. Well, not completely yet of course, but with this book the story really does begin to near it’s conclusion. I’ve mentioned this before, I feel sad it’s all about to end, but at the same time I’m also reaching the point where I’m feeling that it really is time to end this.

I have to say I loved this book! And I’m so happy Dan decided this story needed more space to conclude satisfactorily, Continue or begin having hallucinations (seeing or speaking to people who aren't present or who have died)

Now he's a meat puppet there's no investment in any conflict between him and other characters anymore because he's not a character anymore, he's more of a rabid dog than Angron is that really just needs to be put down. It was at its most prominent in Malcador''s scenes, but was absolutely in other parts of the book. The word I quoted smaragdine occurs with a minor character called Acastia, she then goes on to face a colubrine shape which has tentacles tipped with bone harpagons. The Empire remains, but in a diminished and stagnant state. The Emperor and loyal primarchs are forced to fight fires (for example, the abominable intelligence, or Chaos incursions) The genre. It is a dark space opera, high fantasy, with links to history and other literature - for example, Paradise Lost, the Odyssey, etc. (the original fantasy series’s). It had to be published in sections simply because we simply mechanically can’t print books that big!I’ve read the first 62 books of the Horus Heresy series, knowing nothing about the wider WarHammer universe or lore. I don’t know whether the Emperor dies or triumphs, the fate of the legions, or humanity’s place in the future. I’m waiting impatiently for the final two books to be released, so that I can start reading 40k and find out what happens. While I've given this book 5 stars for the massive enjoyment I've drawn from it and I was truly blown away even though I already loved most of the series up to this point, it's not perfect. If there's one thing I have to single out, then that its connection to its direct predecessor, Echoes of Eternity, feels... off, somehow. I won't go into too much detail to avoid spoilers, but it feels like this was written off an outline of the ending of Echoes, without all the details in place. It's not totally jarring, but there were several moments that made me go "Wait, this doesn't fit". The other thing is that even now, three books later, the regrettably bad Mortis raises its head yet again, forcing Abnett to drag along some of its elements and going so far as to almost flat out retcon some others.