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Cthonia's Reckoning

The Horus Heresy

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Cthonia's Reckoning

By: John French, Michael F. Haspil, Gary Kloster, Nicholas Wolf, Noah van Nguyen, Gav Thorpe, Chris Forrester
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
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A Horus Heresy Anthology

In the final years of the Horus Heresy, all eyes were on the Siege of Terra. But out in the vast darkness of space, war raged over a thousand other worlds—including the home world of the Sons of Horus, Cthonia.

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Witness the bitter, spiteful struggle between the Imperial Fists and the Sons of Horus over the Warmaster's home planet of Cthonia, in seven stories from a variety of authors.

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After seven long years of conflict, the Horus Heresy nears its end. But now, as the Warmaster Horus marches on Terra to rip his father from the Throne, the seat of the arch-traitor’s power lies empty. Cthonia, a world once dominated by brutal murder-gangs, is occupied by the Emperor’s praetorians—the indomitable Imperial Fists. For the Sons of Horus, this outrage demands a reckoning. From the towering heights of Traitor’s Gate, stronghold of the VII Legion, to the unending warrens in the planet’s crust, the two sides slaughter one another without remorse. It is a war of spite, and only the most ruthless will rise to claim Cthonia.

CONTENTS

  • Sons of Cthonia by John French
  • To the Last by Michael F Haspil
  • The Gangs Beneath by Gary Kloster
  • The Flesh Harvest by Nicholas Wolf
  • Traitor's Faith by Noah Van Nguyen
  • For Hate's Sake by Gav Thorpe
  • Postulant by Chris Forrester

Read by Gary Armstrong.

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went into this not expecting much, but ended up loving it. High recommended to all Warhammer fans

a surprising good book

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Overall i found the stories kind of dull, its just a bunch of different characters that we dont get enough time with to become invested in. not enough variety either in the setting or themes

kind of dull

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He makes all the characters sound like characters sound like 1950s English schoolchildren.

“We will need to harvest the dead for meat” delivered with the same gravity as “Don’t be late for school, Alfie, otherwise the headmaster will be very cross!”

Find it hard to get past when he’s describing a bloody charnel house with the same tone he would describe a family picnic.

It’s like he’s reading Enid Blyton or something.

It was the same with the dark angels novels he read.

Gareth Armstrong isn’t very grimdark

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To the Last. Flesh Harvest and Postulant are by far the best stories in this anthology and I have to say that disappointed me as I was very hopeful for tales of cthonia and yet so little was given

The good, the goodish and the good?

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Overall not bad but I didn't really get much of a sense of what was actually going on over the entire conflict and the outcome of the battle. To The Last was an exceptional void battle though and I'd buy the book just for that.

Interesting shorts but didn't add much overall

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