The End and the Death: Volume II
The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra, Book 8, Part 2
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Dan Abnett
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Siege of Terra Book 8, Part 2
Volume II picks up right where the first left off, with cataclysmic events building up to an epic conclusion that will shake the very galaxy to its core.
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The final battle aboard the Warmaster’s flagship has begun in earnest, as Sanguinius defies his fate and the Dark Gods in an attempt to end his brother’s life, and the war along with it.
THE STORY
Terra is besieged. The outcome of the war lies on a knife edge. The Warmaster Horus’ bloody seven-year crusade has led to this – the cradle of humanity, where he is to kill his father, the Emperor.
With the war at this critical juncture, Sanguinius, primarch of the loyalist Blood Angels, braves the horrors of the Warmaster’s flagship, The Vengeful Spirit, with a single purpose in mind – to slay his brother Horus, decapitate the Heresy once and for all, and stop the forces of Chaos from taking Terra.
But at the whim of a Warmaster fallen so far from grace, the Dark Gods will not make Sanguinius’ task easy. As the war edges towards its explosive, bloody conclusion, events are about to unfold that could either save humanity or plunge it headlong into an eternity of darkness.
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If I were playing devil’s advocate I’d say that this “bloated” aspect of the text is intentional, as a sense of timelessness and events being dragged out is a big theme in the book.
But regardless once the story does pick up there’s a lot of great stuff. I won’t spoil too much but it went in a direction I really didn’t expect, but that I found really engaging. Things start to get very weird as time and space start to lose coherence as Horus reveals his full power.
The vision of the last battle Abnett is creating is a lot more nuanced than the old long established lore suggests. Which I think is a good thing. All that old lore is still here but it’s just given so much more scope. It really does feel like the old lore is just the barely remembered myth of the events in this book.
Only real disappointment I had in this book is the apparent abandonment of a major plot thread from volume 1. It’s made out to be the most important thing ever in volume 1 and for the majority of this volume, then near the end it is just seemingly resolved, and will no longer play a factor “in this era at least” to quote the text.
Again don’t want to spoil too much. But the big thing that was definitely going to happen according to volume 1, now just isn’t happening, which seems kind of lame honestly. Maybe volume 3 will deliver on something relating to that plot thread but it seems to be done with.
Overly long, but a lot of great stuff
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Very good but could, and should, have been better
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However, i am a custodes fan and i hate how the author did them dirty. They are loosing control and their wits waaay too often.
Sad custodes fan
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Wow
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Dan Abnett delivers yet again.
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