Horus Heresy: Tales of Heresy (The Horus Heresy) Review
Most great sagas evolve around a really small cadre of characters and geographical places. It's almost inevitable.
Frequently those works lose some coherency, almost like if there is nothing outside the events evolving around the main characters. With this 10 th installment of the horus heresy, Black Library and Games Workshop managed to create depth and consistency in a remarkable way.
I will not comment a lot about the seven short stories (each could lead to a main book), although they are all interesting and well written. Obviously the quality varies, but the writters were well chosen. Here at Amazon are great reviews where you can find abstracts on those stories.
Contrary to some opinions I believe that all the stories have a lot about the Horus Heresy. How it changed the face of Terra, the purpose of the Adeptus Custodes (and their motivations, finally they will see action), how the saviors of humanity (the space wolves story) can do to a non compliant world, the fact that the terrible war could probably be avoided but someone prevented it (spoiler: probably the emperor...see the sisters of silence story), the insights and purposes of the emperor in the story "the last church" that shows that the Emperor plan is much larger than simply abolishing religion...he knows that people will substitute their faiths; also interesting the almost worship and shows of extreme loyalty to the Primarchs reflected in the Angron story...etc.
All stories show events that lead to the rebellion of Horus, explain reactions and why entire legions followed their Primarchs and worlds rebelled, shows us fears and reactions during the crusade, before the heresy and during the Horus Rebellion.
Horus Heresy: Tales of Heresy (The Horus Heresy) Feature
- ISBN13: 9781844166824
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews
It's about time!!!! - G. Razo - Vault City, CA
I really enjoyed this book. I have read all the Horus Heresy novels up to this one. I skipped Mechanicum based on the reviews posted here on Amazon, but I intend to read that one as well. That being said, you will really enjoy this book of short stories. Each one has a small twist to it where you will find yourself turning those pages quite quickly! The only one I had a hard time trying to figure out was the last story of the book regarding the World Eaters. I read it anyway just for the sake of completion. Again, if you suffered through Descent of Angels and Mechanicum then you will find sweet relief reading this book!
Jun 27, 2010 23:29:04
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