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The End and the Death: Volume II
- The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra, Book 8, Part 2
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
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Summary
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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- J. R. Cann
- 06-11-23
Overly long, but a lot of great stuff
When all is said and done I really think this last novel is going to be viewed as being a bit bloated. The first quarter or so of this book really doesn’t advance much further from the first volume - Dorn is still trapped, Sanguinius is closing in on Horus etc, this stuff is reiterated just one too many times in my opinion. I get that the book is trying to build up an enormous amount of tension and emphasise the scale of what’s happening but it did cross the line a little bit for me.
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.
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- Kelv1n
- 06-11-23
9 hours in .. and OMG
I'm listening to the script for a loonytoon's episode,.. so far it consists 97% of characters leaving through one door, then immediately re-entering the same room via another door...
Every character has a scenario like this,.. minimal development of the major arcs...
did I mention, I'm 9 hours in? by this point, it is loonyroons mixed with Groundhog day - This explains how BlackLibrary suddenly managed to find enough text for a 3rd book!
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- george
- 05-12-23
It was tell don’t show for like 20 hours a slog
I wrote an essay when I was 12 where I said the ghost of Xmas past is an important ghost. That is this book to a tee constantly telling you in endless detail how nuts everything is without just showing you. A complete slog
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- Richard Greenwood
- 15-11-23
90% filler 10% substance
GW's cash cow continues, they could've and should've ended it here but no, there's going to be another book. The performance was brilliant as always and I liked the book, i'm just annoyed it hasn't ended.
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- Skegg
- 14-11-23
Shameless padding. Pointless interludes. But good
This could have been a novella. Shameless monetising of a series to the detriment of it's quality. Bits are good, don't get me wrong, but 70% was waffle, I assume that part 3 with share the waffle to story ratio. I feel that this is a cynical attempt to tease a single long novel out to three parts to sell more books and this has let down the penultimate book of an epic saga. If you enjoyed the rest of the series, you know you will get this one, and you will enjoy it, but I expect you will feel cheated by GW like me somehow......
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- S. Fenwick
- 12-11-23
Horrifically verbose and unfocused
Like vol 1, TEATD vol 2 feels in dire need of a braver editor - one willing to hack away at Abnett's compulsion to A) require the reader to use a dictionary and B) spend a huge amount of words on characters doing very little for most of the book. Either that or the author was asked to pad it out as much as possible for commercial reasons. I
When the bits everyone is reading the book for arrive, the action is split into an annoying number of non-consecutive chapters. These quirks are aggravated by the audiobook format – listening it to the first time, you can't simply skip to the good bits and the constant twitching of perspective makes it hard and irritating to follow. The emotional payoffs keep feeling out of reach and it feels like the literary equivalent of coitus interruptus – massively unsatisfying for everyone involved.
Despite listening to much of the Horus Heresy novels so many times I can quote them from memory - I have very little intention of coming back to this mess any time soon. I consider Know No Fear and Betrayer to the high watermark of the HH/SoT series and TEATD is incredibly less enjoyable to listen to. I guess to some extent, there are factors beyond the author"s control – this has to wrap up a lot of plot threads, there is limited room for maneuver, and the general plot is by its nature very negative.
Part 2 suffers from a massive wasted opportunity – there is a confrontation that could have easily riffed off some of the best bits of Betrayer but somehow both characters don't appear to recognise each other/acknowledge their shared past.
In addition, much of the physicality of a besieged force holding out to the bitter end is completely absent . Ammunition shortages, Astartes committing cannibalism out of need and to remember their fallen, together with widespread use of combat drugs with crippling long-term effects taken in the knowledge that there probably won't be a tomorrow would have really helped.
My advice is to not bother with the audiobooks and borrow all three volumes from a library, because this isn't a book you'll want to reread, much less relisten to.
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- Inderraj
- 12-11-23
phenomenal addition to the series
every single chapter is a 10/10. had me on the edge of my seat from the beginning
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- Matt Holmes
- 11-11-23
I truly empathise with Rogal Dorn
Except the voices outside my wall are whispering “TO BE CONCLUDED IN THE END AND THE DEATH VOLUME 3”
Some good plot development on certain characters but this story has less meat on it than a Servitor.
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- sean Wilkinson
- 07-11-23
Abnet and Keeble are the dream team!
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!
There are lots of plots to follow, so probably gonna have to gladly give it a second listen. sad that the series is coming to an end but it's ending with a bang at least.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-11-23
superb knitting of a complicated tapestry
not a simple case of a linear story. there's so many threads being woven to complete the final picture. really short chapters jumping all over the place but not jarring at all in my opinion. a great 2nd book of the trilogy. absolute torture now having to wait for the finale.
great job by Dan 👏👏👏
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- Anonymous User
- 09-11-23
boring and repeating
I'm amazed how such important moment in this universe could be made so boring and bland
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- Anonymous User
- 04-11-23
the best Book in the Horus Heresy
Im still listening now but all avenues have been covered in this book. all story lones/ side caracters are addressed. I have never felt the urge to want to leap into the warhammer universe if only to stand by the Emperors side. while i may be killed within the 1st second of that fiet, the raw emptions of the custodes, and everyone in the Sol system has me weaping with sadness of what is lost.
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- Douglas Tuttle
- 17-11-23
Just a preview for the next book.
The book wastes too much time covering very little. In the end you're just waiting for the next book to finish the story. This book provides very little and finishes nothing.
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- Jordan
- 17-11-23
Really boring and really long
This book is awful. Why is it so long? It’s so shockingly self indulgent. For every necessary word there are 50 fluff words. It could’ve been a fantastic 7-10 hour book. Instead it’s an awful 20 hour slog. Great performance from Keeble does all the heavy lifting in an otherwise shockingly bad entry in the series. Probably the worst boom we’ve had from Dan Abnett who usually delivers bangers. Don’t know what went wrong here.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-11-23
Filler.
Utterly disappointed and the only saving grace was Keeble's performance. It's supposed to be the climatic end and 90% of the book is characters casually sitting around, going into deep monologues. The author is utterly tone deaf.
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- N. Slowey
- 13-11-23
This trilogy should have been 2 books.
This book is about 50% filler. It’s a ton of nothing happening in vague and obtuse ways. Really disappointing.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-11-23
unlimited padding
they outdone themselves when it comes to paddling on this book. this is a 3-4 hours book with 14-15 hours of padding. not something you would expect on the second to last book of the horus heresy...
they also skip scene even 3-5 minutes or so making it harder to immerse yourself on what is going on.
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- Timothy van den Berg
- 08-12-23
How underwhelming the 12 hours thing was.
À filler and underwhelming episode from a. Writer who's written the best Warhammer 40k novels. Disappointed, but excited for volume 3!
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- J & E Tichy
- 20-11-23
I Thought This Was The End
NO SPOILERS - Not a critique of the book but I had no idea there was going to be a volume three. So, just be aware and not wondering how D.A. was going to wrap everything up with a half hour left like I did.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-11-23
Spectacular and a treat
Without spoilers, seeing character arcs completed and emotional beats hit after over a decade of this series is incredible. Fun high concept sci-fi. Some very grim dark moments. Any review claiming filler fluff doesn't know enough lore. This is a home run. A MUST listen. narration is excellent.
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