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Battle for the Abyss

The Horus Heresy, Book 8

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Battle for the Abyss

By: Ben Counter
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
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Now that news of Horus' treachery is in the open, a time of testing has come. Some Legions have already declared their allegiance to the Warmaster while the loyalty of others lies firmly with the Emperor. As Horus deploys his forces, loyalist Astartes learn that a massive Wordbearers fleet is heading to Ultramar, home of the Ultramarines.

Unless they can intercept the fleet and destroy the mighty battleship that has been sent to reinforce it, the Ultramarines may suffer a blow from which they will never recover.

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Love it. Great book. Would recommend if you like the ultramarines. Great narrator too. I recommend.

Great story from the horus heresy

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As always so far with this series the performance is to a high standard. Unfortunatley the story here was abit lacking. This is the 1st story to focus on the Ultramarines and as such I was looking forward to it very much. I was dissapointed because this story focuses allot in space and although that has potential to be very interesting I just found it to be very generic combat. I suppose to explain further I mean that there is no explanation as to the details and the particulars of the various elements involved with space battles i.e. i have no idea as to whether a battle barge is 500m long or 2 miles long so then you dont have the foundations needed to really visualise the scene that the writer tries to describe. Other elements of the story however were good like the conflict between the Wolf and the 1000 son. Although another thing I am noticing is that the traitor legions are all bad and the loyal legions are all good, other than the first books about the lunar wolves there is not really any internal conflicts which seems possible but just less enjoyable. I think that if ther were for instance some 1000 sons and Ultramrine traitors vs 1000 sons and Ultramarine Loyalists then the drama would be so much more.

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This book is narrated excellently with defined voices so you know who is speaking and when, characters in the loyalist side are great, some reviews will say “oh why do the loyalists get to do this!?” Well they are the main characters it would be a boring book if the ones the story is about were useless.

Overall a more low key story in the series but still a great story and worth the read.

Do not believe the one stars!

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loved this, very much like a movie.

voice performance was decent, overall the plot was a great contained story

awesome

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A good solid book that has the first real introductions to several chapters of astarties but ultimately offers little to the series as a whole. if you do skip this book you won't be missing anything but a good book.

solid story but offers little to the series

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