![]() This is the best 40k novel I've read - by a not insignificant margin - and a fitting start to a planned-to-be-epic-in-scope series. Pitched as "the 40k equivalent of the Horus Heresy," this novel (and series) had a rather high mark to reach, but I think it succeeded. ![]() We are most definitely in the age of Guilliman now. It bodes well for the rest of the series that we’ll be spending time in the company of a range of people.Ĭomparisons between this series and the Heresy are inevitable, and allusions to it are made- the tighter focus that this has from it’s conception should give us a more focused and coherent set of stories. The book has a nicely diverse cast of characters, who presumably will recur as the series progresses- I’m pleased with the way the books splits it’s time between the Astartes and the mortal, the high-ups and those of more mundane status. This books doesn’t just concern itself with the mundane, we see some massively significant events in detail for the first time and get yet more insight into how they’ve changed the Imperium. Guy builds fantastically on the realities of life on Terra as outlined by Chris Wraight in his Custodes and Inquisition books, but this time looking up at the looming faceless and maddening bureaucracy of the Imperium rather than those trying to navigate it from within we don’t get the grand overview that Chris’ books give us, but we do get a visceral taste of life in the hives. I loved Dark Imperium, Guy did some sterling work in selling the progressed timeline and conveying the changes to the setting, so when I say that this is the book that Dark Imperium perhaps should have been, I’m not complaining.ĭawn of Fire: The Avenging Son would work really well as a stand-alone book or as a complete introduction to the Warhammer 40,000 universe, but in the context of the wider setting it really comes into it’s own. It’s hard not to review this without mentioning Dark Imperium. Even then it is but a prelude to the forthcoming bloodshed. The success of the Indomitus Crusade will be determined by this conflict, and the desperate mission of Battlegroup Saint Aster, led by Space Marine Lieutenant Messinius. From the Throneworld of Terra does the Avenging Son hurl his fleets, their mission the very salvation of mankind.Īs vessels in their thousands burn through the cold void, the attention of Fleetmistress VanLeskus turns to the Machorta Sound – a region under attack by a dreaded Slaughter Host of the Dark Gods. By the will of the reborn primarch, Roboute Guilliman, is the Indomitus Crusade launched – a military undertaking that eclipses all others in known history. To survive, humanity must retaliate and take back what they have lost. Experience the Indomitus Crusade and a battle that will be a tipping point for the future in an all-action tale by Guy Haley.Ī great darkness has befallen the galaxy, and the armies of Chaos are rampant. The brand-new Warhammer 40,000 saga begins here. Their success or failure may define the very future of the crusade – and the Imperium. As the Indomitus Crusade spreads out across the galaxy, one battlefleet must face a dread Slaughter Host of Chaos.
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