Conquest of Armageddon (Black Templars, #2) by Jonathan Green

Conquest of Armageddon (Black Templars, #2) Reviews

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  Michael T Bradley

  Hey, finally a novel by Jonathan Green I finished! I think this is the first, at least. So this is the story of at least one part of the second war for Armageddon. We follow three groups: 1) a bunch of Imps, 2) an Inquisitorial agent and his sidekick, a (gasp) Kroot, and 3) a group of Black Templars, who are searching for the gene-seed from some fallen members of theirs from the war 50 years ago on Armageddon. Throw in some orks (and cyborks!) and murderous greenery, and you've got yourself a novel!
  
  Fairly quickly groups one and two join together to tromp through the green, and even the BT find some (grudging) friends in the form of a squad of Relictors. Overall there was still too much telling, not showing in this book, as usual (example: at one point during the finale, there's a sentence like, 'This is how the sky looked. It was as if the sky was raining blood.' Much better would be to describe the sky, then have a character say, "Looks like it's raining blood." Simple fixes like this would have made the whole experience so much better), and the main story itself wasn't interesting enough to sustain a novel. Overall I felt this novel was WAY too similar to Death World, which had killer shrubbery & orks with a secret lair & Imps (no Space Marines, though), and was a helluva lot better. Still, the best of Green's stuff I've come across yet, so there's that.
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  Eric Gallagher

  A case of making a short story long.
  Basically marines fight Orks. There is a chaos artifact. Orks fight Chaos and marines fight both. Subplot, Ork hunters break into a base to get an experimental bio weapon. Then the story ends.
  This is only the second 40k book I've read, so it may be standard structure to the story, but the first one I read had much more character development, and more of a conclusion than this. This felt more like the tabletop game, paint-by-numbers marines Vs Orks Vs Chaos and some humans were there too. It is what is is, still enjoyed reading it.
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  Martin

  Story was a bit better than the previous one. I enjoyed the twists at the end. I think the book could've been better with more characterization to go along with the bolter porn.
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  Mike

  Bolster porn. Not as good as the previous novel. Is it just me or did it end so abruptly?
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  David Hellstrom

  Steel Legion, Black Templars, and Orks. What could be better?