| Title | : | Soul Hunter (Night Lords #1) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1844168115 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781844168118 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2010 |
A summons from Warmaster Abaddon sends these rebels on a dangerous journey that leads inexorably to a conflict with the Emperor's chosen warriors, the Blood Angels.
Soul Hunter (Night Lords #1) Reviews
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Highly entertaining foray into the 40K universe! I enjoy these books because of the great tech, the military strategy, the great battles and the action that fills the story, and this book did not disappoint. In terms of the 40k books I’ve read before, this one is at the top in terms of storyline and feeling. Not a great in-depth character study going on here, but that didn’t stop me from enjoying several of the character’s perspectives and getting behind them. Definitely going to start on book 2 shortly!
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Phenomenal!
Sometimes in certain movies, for me at least, things come together almost to perfection. The final confrontation between Deckard and Roy Batty at the end of Blade Runner, with the rain and the lighting and the sweeping camera angles; the first thirty minutes of Saving Private Ryan, when the camera closes in on Tom Hank's face with bombs going off and dudes picking pieces of themselves up off the beach; the scene from the original Starship Troopers when the drop ships have to release themselves early because of the surprise attack from the bugs and the music is blaring and everyone is freaking out and the captain keeps yelling, "remember your training!" These scenes stand out to me and are among my favorites.
This is a book made up of nothing but scenes like that. Quotable lines, amazingly vivid and intense action, and breathtaking intensity are on full display. Aaron Dembski-Bowden is an amazing writer. His ability to maintain tension along with writing some of the most frenetic but easy to follow action pieces is beyond admirable. It is enviable.
I'm on a massive Warhammer 40K kick right now and while I love the Eisenhorn trilogy because it was my introduction to this universe, this is the best Warhammer book I've read so far. I may even be able to say it is one of the best books I have ever read, period! Everything in here is in my wheelhouse. There is no fluff in these pages, no fodder, no filler. Just straight action, drama, intrigue, and mystery, interspersed with cheer out loud moments and some bad-ass dialogue that was never cheesy or forced.
If you have ever contemplated reading a book set in this universe, you can't find a better place to start. Five, no doubt about 'em, stars! -
Details:
Soul Hunter by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Black Library Publishing
411 Pages
*This is an advance copy review.
Review:
I generally don’t care for Chaos Space Marine novels. I think it’s because I have a difficult time seeing how I’ll be able to relate to the characters. How can I root for the bad guys? Dark Creed proved me wrong on that, and since Soul Hunter came in my monthly care package from BL, I was willing to give it a shot. This is the first Aaron Dembski-Bowden book for me as well, so I was anxious to get a taste of what he brings to the table. I wasn’t let down.
Let me say that the author does an excellent job in sucking you in to the whole vibe of, well…darkness. The Night Lords are like the Batman Chapter of Traitor Marines. Darkness and fear. That’s their shtick. They really have it down pat. From the very prologue I was hooked.
The author has a real wit to his dialogue. He wraps the characters in interesting quips that are entirely defining. I could go on and on about each character, but seriously, each one definitely has a specific “voice” which is awesome; very akin to Dan Abnett in that respect. The author is also quite a tease. We don’t even know the protagonist’s name for 43 pages.
The story is good. The plot is a bit slow: I think I spent the whole novel half-holding my breath. It is very cool to see some real meat on the Night Lords and get an insight in to how the former great legions (well…all the traitor legions) have decayed. The portrayal of the relationship with the Black Legion and the Warmaster is revealing.
It appears that “Chaos Space Marine” is a very broad term. Even “Traitor Marine” is a huge generalization. These guys are all unique, which makes for an interesting story. I’m very impressed that the author does a good job at making the reader feel so…betrayed. It makes it possible for the reader to sympathize, and it really worked.
There is definitely the feeling that this book is just a prelude to something much bigger. I am assuming that this is the beginning of a series (at this point I have only this novel to go by) Still…the story plays out nicely.
It has what I consider the appropriate amount of “Grim Dark Future” of the 41st millennium. I can’t say that of a lot of Warhammer 40k fiction. Even the top dogs of the Black Library bullpen often can’t really get that perfect balance. I mean, I believe the purpose of the grim, dark future-type stories is that in the midst of a really shitty universe, where mankind is either on the edge of extinction, or under the lash of one tyrannical regime or another, it is possible to see glimmers of hope, or in this case…at least revenge. Man is powerless, small, one among untold billions…meaningless. Even demigods die an ignoble death. Yet there is something cool about one person, astartes, slave, and navigator doing something unique.
That’s what it’s all about.
Aaron Dembski-Bowden captures this.
Actually, the author would be in my mind a kind of hybrid of writing styles: Like the dark love-child of Graham McNeill and Dan Abnett. Abnett I think writes great action and characterizations, dialog. McNeill can pull off more “thinker” novels and also is strong in characterization etc. Kind of a perfect storm in writing styles really.
My only complaints are as follows:
1. A bit of slowness. Not bad. I just think some folks may notice it. I dig it, but I’m not your typical reader. It’s got a lot of action, don’t get me wrong…it just has some very contemplative bits that not everyone will fully appreciate.
2. It feels like a prelude. Not really a complaint. When I got the book I started reading it with no foreknowledge. Is it a prequel? It may be. I don’t judge books by the series; I judge the book by the book. By the end you feel like “it’s about to go off.” Maybe it’s the finally finding out that it’s a series at the end instead of at the beginning. Anyhow, totally minor quibble that really means nothing.
3. The writer is clever; maybe too clever for me. I think there were parts where something happened that I simply missed it. Like an inside joke where you’re not in the know. Still, it didn’t really detract from the story. I’m just not as versed on the Night Lords. I think that someone who is not versed in 40k lore may miss out on some of the fun.
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That’s it. Seriously, those are some minor quibbles. For my first Aaron Dembski-Bowden novel, I was pleased with the story, the vibe, and the overall entertainment value. Totally good read.
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I just.... Wow, Im completly sucked into the story at this point and I seriously cant wait to read the rest of these books! this is how you write some seriously amazing bad guys!!
I'm a little late to the Night Lords Party but what an amazing party it is! Ave Dominus Nox! -
A fun dark read. I absolutely loved it! =)
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Well, after taking way too long to get to these, I’ve finally finished Soul Hunter! The first novel in the Night Lords trilogy, also one of the most highly praised novels to come from Black Library ever, and man was it good!
The whole novel was absolutely fantastic, ADB’s phenomenal world building and characters really shine through in this one with First Claw at the front and center, with loads of wonderfully done side characters and cameos (from Septimus, Talos’ artificer to the big man Warmaster Abaddon himself!), they were all done with an insane amount of skill to make their characters really bleed from each page! The action was extremely well written, and the terror really oozed off of every page when our boys in blue went hunting.
I think one of my favourite parts of the novel was how much it showed away from the glorious front line and the (False) Emperor’s Angels of Death. We really get to have a pretty detailed and lengthy glimpse into the life of a Chaos Warband, and there’s not a lot of glamour! From killing and raiding for survival, to making a tactical withdraw out of the system to ensure you live to fight another day. From the bridge full of enslaved officers to the black market down in the near pitch-black of the depths of the Covenant of Blood, the novel was immensely enlightening, and thoroughly enjoyable. -
Soul Hunter is one of the better Warhammer 40k books and Aaron Dembski-Bowden is quickly becoming my favourite Warhammer writer.
This book takes a look at the Warhammer world from the eyes of the opposing faction. Night Lords, headed by Talos are a strange bunch that hate each other, while respecting each other as warriors and brothers. The story sets the board for the next two books and it is a breakneck ride through space, time, and what is means to be the bad guy but still hold fast to your principles and beliefs.
Really solid book. Poetic in places and violent, too.
If space battles, intra-group rivalries, and large setpieces, flawed heroes are your thing, pick this one up. Good entry point into the Warhammer world too. If this is going to be your first Warhammer book, you are going to be a fan. -
Some of the best writing in 40k. The dreadnought battle was amazing.
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Of all the Marine books out there, there is very little literature wise in the way of the Night Lords except for short stories and the like. We had Lord of the Night and then along came Soul Hunter.
For any fans of the Night Lords these are a must read, not only does it immerse you into the action early on but you get an affinity with First Claw and their own private thoughts and battles. You get the impression that they might not like each other all that much but when it comes to working together they work pretty well as a team even if one of them is slipping into the madness that is the Blood God.
You also get an insight into life for the humans who live in the vessels underworld and how they live day to day as slaves for their Night Lord masters. I was surprised to see that for humans they are treated quite well by their masters and not, perhaps as one would expect for a traitor Legion to be using them as sacrifice or cannon fodder.
Aaron Dembski-Bowden has taken the Night Lords and brought them into line with the books on the Ultramarines, Blood Angels and others, they may be damned but they have burst into the 40K world and announced their intention....they have come for you! if the rest of the trilogy is as good as this then the Night Lords are here to stay....Dominous Nox -
What a book.
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The best 40k book I have ever read. If you're a fan of the universe you should read this book.
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AJ (Shadowhawk) is our newest book reviewer on staff here, and he starts off on TFF with a wonderful review of Soul Hunter by Aaron Dembski-Bowden. I hope you’ll all welcome AJ and make him feel at home. -CP
“One of the most intriguing and unusual novels from Black Library, Soul Hunter will challenge your perceptions about life as a Traitor Astartes.“ ~The Founding Fields
I have read precious little of the published work of Aaron Dembski-Bowden, limited to his Horus Heresy novel The First Heretic and his short stories in the first two Space Marine anthologies and the Horus Heresy: Age of Darkness anthology. Up until I picked up Soul Hunter and its sequel Blood Reaver at Games Day UK 2011, I was fairly impressed with his work. There is something about the quality of his work, the style, the characters, the setting, the unexplored concepts that is highly evocative and suitably tight in its execution.
Truth be told, I was never interested in the Night Lords novels until very recently and my friends kept asking me to give them a chance. Of course, after reading his Horus Heresy work, I was really looking forward to seeing how he tackled a proper full-length 40k story. Short stories only get you so far.
So it was with a fair bit of excitement that I picked up this novel and started reading through it. My first reaction after getting through the first few chapters was one of surprise and not a little disappointment.
I think that is a case of buying too much into the hype surrounding the novels. Everybody praises Soul Hunter as one of the best BL novels, the reviews are stellar, the author himself is lauded all across fandom, and even has a cult following that would like nothing less than to have him be the mover and shaker in the Horus Heresy stories yet to be told.
And that really threatened to ruin the book for me and I nearly put it down because of how simple, straightforward and slow it seemed.
But I am glad I stuck through with it. I knew a little about what to expect in terms of the plot since I find spoilers so irresistible.
But you know what? I enjoyed the novel. I certainly have mixed feelings about it but it is one of the books which I will happily read again and again for the sheer entertainment value.
The Night Lords are a legion that has never really had any major screen time until Aaron came around. They featured in Graham’s prequel short story Chains of Command for his Ultramarines novels, and they featured in Lee Lightner’s first Space Wolf novel, Sons of Fenris. In the former, the Night Lords undertake a tank assault while in the latter they use misdirection and traps in a city battle. Two different cameo portrayals and two very unsatisfying outlooks on the legion. If there is more, I have yet to get around to reading any of it.
For me, Soul Hunter challenged my perceptions of the legion. I’d always seen them as vicious, murderous, Raptor-loving Chaos Marines. Those last two words are important: Chaos Marines. The Night Lords are anything but. They are also not Raptor-lovers like most people believe them to be. While the other eight legions gave themselves over to the Chaos Gods, the Eighth Legion remained separate from that inevitable corrupting influence, succeeding for the most part.
They are also not the well-off, living the high life type of Traitor Marines I thought all Chaos warbands are. They are something totally different and Aaron does a great job of portraying that aspect of it. He hammers it at you again and again until you accept it and then a bit more. I don’t say that with any disrespect however and I laud his efforts at making it so crystal clear again and again.
It is needed.
The once proud legion is now split off into warbands, scavenging off their dead enemies, allies and brothers alike. They are losing direction because their Primarch’s guiding influence has been lost to them. Bereft of purpose, they have been reduced to brokering deals with others more powerful than themselves for what amounts to scrap. Some among the splintered legion do not even care about staying true to the Night Haunter’s visions. They are all out for themselves.
All except for the First Claw of Tenth Company: Talos, Cyrion, Xarl, Uzas and Mercutian the newbie. There is a very clear vibe throughout the novel that First Claw is just tired of the state of the legion, and their company in particular. Numbers are at an all-time low, their Captain is a maniac, too much infighting in the company and so on.
Things need to change, sooner the better.
But that is not all the novel is about. We get a very human perspective into the shadows and darkness legion in the form of Talos’ servants, his artificer Septimus and the company’s new navigator Octavia, as well Septimus’ interactions with the other human crew of the company’s strike cruiser Covenant of Blood. So we don’t see the legion just from the Space Marines’ points of view, but from that of the regular humans as well.
It makes for a very nice and unusual narrative that I must say I find unique in the current offerings of Space Marine centric novels for precisely that reason. This approach is very common in the Horus Heresy series as well.
Although unlike the Heresy novels, where I am getting slightly bored by the constant human perspectives in nearly every book, it is refreshing in the mainstream 40k novels. It makes for a very gloomy, dichotomous and engaging reading which on a lot of reflection I find that I actually quite enjoyed. When I first finished reading the novel I didn’t like it, but having thought about it, my feelings were unfounded.
What makes Soul Hunter a great novel is that it challenges you at every turn. It forces you to accept that not all the traitor legions and warbands are coloured with the same heavy brush-stroke of ‘They are evil Chaos-worshippers’. It forces you to accept that sometimes even the elite Space Marines sometimes do not get to fight on their own terms with a proper execution of their trademark doctrines. It forces you to accept that not all Space Marines, whether good or bad (notice I don’t say good or evil), actually act all the time like Space Marines. Cyrion is perhaps the best example of this and he is my favourite character in the entire novel for his witty quips and comments.
In that same vein, Aaron’s dialogue is also very good and as someone who struggles quite a bit with it for my fanfics, it is also educational to a degree. All the characters, whether it is Talos the Prophet, Uzas who is slowly falling to Khorne, Cyrion the smart-ass, Captain Vandred the Possessed or Octavia the newly inducted-against-her-will servant, they all have their unique voices. They act like how they should, and they talk like they should. They are each different from each other, with different mindsets, different ideologies, different perspectives, and Aaron gets it all across very clearly.
The theme of shadows and darkness is also quite prevalent throughout the entire novel, and it makes you feel like you are walking into a house of horrors, except one where your own friends are more dangerous than your surroundings. I felt spooked at times for sure.
The only main criticism that I can really apply to the novel in all honesty is the slow pace of it, even during the action scenes. There is an attitude in the novel that things will play out in their own time and that there is no reason to rush the ending. I am not a fan of that. I can see that it is necessary for the narrative but I still don’t enjoy it. I like my adrenaline-pumping scenes too much, which is why I found the last third of the novel with its boarding actions to be the highlight of the novel. I wish it had been expanded upon a bit more.
C’est la vie.
If you want a change of pace from the other Black Library books, if you want to experiment with your reading, or if you are a fan of the Night Lords, I recommend this book. It is definitely one of the must-reads of Black Library fiction and it showcases more than The First Heretic just why Aaron is as good as he is. Not to mention that the trilogy has just started with this one and these guys are going to back in no time at all when I review Blood Reaver next.
Score-wise, I will have to give the novel a 9.5/10. Originally, after having just finished it, that score would have been quite a bit lower. But like I said, this book forced me to really think about why I didn’t like it and it ended up that I actually did like it. It is a very thoughtful novel, more so than most other Space Marine novels and it works very well in it’s favour. The epilogue is also grand, setting the stage for the eventual showdown. -
This is my third time reading this book, which is saying something. Dembski-Bowden is one of the most consistently good Warhammer 40k writers, and vary rarely do I come across something of his I don't like or enjoy.
This is mostly due in part to his grasp of engaging characters. Soul Hunter is no exception. He brings the Night Lords to life, breathing a menagerie of complex goals, ideas, wants and dislikes into each character. They become more than simple astares killers or a traitor legion, but rather, the reader gets to understand WHY they do what they do and why Night Haunter chose the path he did.
Aaron also does a fantastic job with side characters as well, which just adds to the entire novel, drawing the reader in. From the Void Born to even the rapists sent to take out the thunderhawk gunship by the Black Legion, each has a certain care given to them that brings them alive on the page, and adds to the sorrow of their loss, or the joy at their death.
My only issue with the novel is how much importance is laid upon the Soul Hunter. We see him being confided in by the primarch, we see how revered he is by his brothers due to his gift, and we see just how special he is. It takes away from him as a character though, as he's not some rank and file warrior, or even a skilled sergeant. No, he's something far, far more important, which almost cheapens him to me. (but, that could just be me. It's almost too Mary Sue for me, and anyone who reads my reviews know I highly dislike characters who are 'blessed') Still, it doesn't play too much of a role within the story, I just found it took away from it.
In the end, I still enjoy this book, even on the third reading. The writing is well done, the way events pan out are handled well, and in the end you get exactly what you want out of the story. Anyone who likes the Night Lords but wanted something more than base killers should read this book. It does a fantastic job of showing chaos space marines as more than simple heretics, but rather people who made a choice. Well worth the read. -
Mein erster Warhammer-Hörbuch! Die ungekürzte Fassung beträgt 14h 33 Minuten und ich dachte, dass ich sehr lange an diesem Buch zu hören habe werde. Schlussendlich hatte ich es innerhalb einer Woche durch. Für mich Rekordzeit.
Woran das liegt? An der perfekten Kombination. Wenn ein gutes Buch auf einen guten Sprecher trifft, verdoppelt sich das Vergnügen einfach. Und deshalb wollte ich gar nicht mehr damit aufhören, dieses Hörbuch zu hören.
Dembski-Bowden hat eine packende Warhammer-Geschichte geschrieben, die sich sehr auf die Figuren konzentriert. Natürlich kommt aber auch das Kämpfen und Schlachten nicht zu kurz. Immerhin geht es um Warhammer.
Felix Würgler schafft es, die Geschichte richtig zum Leben zu erwecken. Jede Figur hat ihre eigene Stimme und Würgler schafft es auch, ihre Gedanken, Gefühle und Emotionen passend darzustellen. Ein packendes und eindringliches Erlebnis.
Auf diese geniale Kombination war ich nicht gefasst und deshalb von Anfang bis Ende oftmals einfach verblüfft. Verblüfft, weil ich mitten im Geschehen war. Verblüfft, weil ich sogar in todmüdem Zustand weitergehört habe. Verblüfft, weil ich fast schon süchtig war.
Und ja, ich hatte danach ein Hörbuch-Hangover... -
Una novela que se nota pensada y planeada, con todos los detalles del trasfondo bien aprovechados y un epílogo que te deja con muchas ganas de mas, planteando el escenario de lo que será un enfrentamiento ulterior.
En fin, que se trata de otra propuesta de disfrute gozoso, presta a molar todo lo molable y perfecta para cualquier lector afín.
Para más detalles, la reseña completa aquí ;)
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If you like wh40k novels this one is absolutely worth reading. Nicely written and from very interesting point of view which is not that well shown in any other sources.
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Great insight into the new war master and the frail alliance they have with the night haunters.
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El mejor libro del universo oscuro de Warhammer 40K que he podido leer
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Cracking 40k yarn with all the expected operatic space-murder, but a surprising amount of nuance and pathos too. Ol' mate ADB is apparently a very popular author of these tales and after reading this - my first of his - I can totally see why.
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I have made a point of not reviewing any books, but it seems I have finally encountered the one book that angered me enough to warrant it. Sigh.
First, a note: I did not go into this book knowing much about Warhammer 40k. I picked it up due to the recommendation of a friend, who had explained to me some basic concepts about the Night Lords and the wider 40k universe before I started. Therefore, I understand that my experience reading this book is unlikely to be shared by most of its readers. Therefore, I will reviewing this book solely off the strength of its characters, plot, and writing, and not based on how I feel about the worldbuilding. I will try to keep this review as spoiler-free as possible, but some of the novel's events will be alluded to, and overt spoilers will be hidden. And to my friend, I forgive you for your evident bad taste.
Soul Hunter is split into two parts, each comprising about 50% of the book. When I say that I did not feel a single emotion throughout the first half of the book, I genuinely mean it. Part I follows a very simple, repeated formula, over and over again. The Night Lords are sent somewhere, they fight some other assholes we've never heard before, they win, they leave. After a while, anything can get truly boring. We don't even learn the main character's name until around 50 pages in, which while being a choice some other reviewers have praised, left me genuinely confused as to who the main character was for an embarrassingly long time. Not only does that hamper a reader's emotional investment when you're supposed to be building it, once I finally figured out who it was supposed to be, a little under halfway through, I couldn't help but wonder what the author was thinking.
Look, I was not going into this with the idea that this was gonna be some deep, introspective character study that says a lot about humanity. I love some good over-the-top edgy violence as much as the next SF/F fan. However, the concept of "horrendously evil factions fighting each other non-stop for millennia" that makes the games so fun to play, unfortunately does not work nearly as well for a novel, where theoretically you're supposed to empathize with the protagonist to a certain extent. Or perhaps (and both may be true) the author simply was not good enough to pull it off.
Talos is a horrible person to the point of revulsion, okay? To my friend who described him as "complex," I am genuinely wondering if we read the same book. It's not that I can't enjoy stories with morally grey (or even black) protagonists. My favorite book, She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker Chan, has a protagonist who kills ten thousand people in a single act, burns people alive, and even kills a child, all to serve her own ambition. (Incredible book by the way, and I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to see a gritty story done RIGHT. But I digress.) The difference is that the narrative fully explores the consequences of her actions and does not attempt to gloss over it or make her out to be the hero of the story when she is obviously the villain. If only I could say the same about Soul Hunter!
Should I just come out and say it? The protagonist is a literal slave owner. Not once does he question that, either. I suppose the author tries to redeem him somewhat by having Talos risk life and limb at the end of part 1 to save a slave (a whole debacle I'll get more into later), but guess what? Just because you're putting you've saved a slave from a worse fate, doesn't change the fact that you own them and are terrible for it! That's far from the only way the narrative paints him to be "one of the good ones," either. Not only that, I was pretty revulsed to find that the Soul Hunters do not just kill enemy legions of trained soldiers, but their "servitors" too. Many of whom are entirely defenseless. And no, just because they are "mindless" and you're "putting them out of their misery" changes the fact that they are killing INNOCENT PEOPLE. Naturally, the main character never questions this and gladly follows along. Slavery was a theme found in abundance, and never handled well. Unfortunately, it made me utterly uncaring when anything threatened Talos.
I didn't find every character impossible to empathize with, though. When I should have been connecting to Talos, I found interest in two characters enslaved under him, Septimus and Eurydice. Unlike basically everyone else, they were mostly human. Not overpowered or extraordinarily blood-thirsty or powerful. They were mostly ordinary people who were trying to cope with an extraordinarily horrible reality as best they could. If done right, I think they would have made excellent protagonists. Unfortunately, they were done very, very wrong.
And this leads me to the one gripe I'll voice in regards to worldbuilding. I have been informed by my 40K-fanatic friend that this is not an element that is inherent to the game, so I'm choosing to place the blame on the author's evident lack of imagination. In a world where guns have been around as weapons for literal tens of thousands of years, where most characters have enhanced their physical forms, either through gene editing or mechanical alterations or both, why would sexism be present even in the slightest? Sexism is a fact of life, and therefore I don't mind its portrayal, even in fantastic settings, but it has to both make sense and be handled well. Obviously, neither happened.
Which is part of the reason why I think Eurydice got the shit character treatment she did. Sorry, but I'm going to have to get into some spoiler-y specifics. The sexism of this world was implied by the overwhelming majority of the characters being male, but was never outright stated until
The only positive I can find about this book is the fact that there was no However, the merit of books is determined on what they do do, rather than what they don’t. Therefore, I am giving Soul Hunter a very generous two stars, with the extra star solely given due to the fact that I understand that I am not the target audience. But even if you are, I doubt you’d like this book very much. -
Greatness from start to finish. I consider myself a newbie when it comes to 40k, and I have to say this is the most information and easy to follow story I've read yet. Everything is clearly defined, with some history thrown in here and there to really flesh things out and give you a better understand of where these characters came from and what they've been through.
Talos and his stolen weapons; the scavenging of fallen soldiers' armor; spirits in armor and weapons; seeing what the Ruinous powers can transform someone into; Abaddon and the Black Legion; soldier-entombed Dreadnoughts; Navigators; Space Marine artificers; Terminator armored soldiers; prison worlds; Titans; Primarch flashbacks; and more, all completely awesome stuff thrown together in an amazingly entertaining read.
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A masterpiece. Mr. Dembski-Bowden has perfected the anti-hero and the Night Lords legion. Talos, Uzas, Cyrion and the others are such a wonderful band of misfits in a true space opera. I cannot wait to see where they are taken next. This omnibus has been nothing but inspiration for my own Night Lords force I am assembling for my Horus Heresy hobby. It is absolutely marvelous. I will have to say that there were many surprises - Septimus is the man.
I also would take a moment to express how incredible it was when Talos told Abaddon where to go. "I am my father's son." I absolutely love these Night Lords. They bow to no one, and will forever be in midnight clad as brothers in life as in death. -
great book
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Outstrips even Lord of the Night.
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Premium tale of the best Chaos space marines
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This shit good
