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Re: Architect of Fate edited by Christian Dunn Review [EJ Davies]

Abhinav Jain — Sat, 12 May 2012 05:09:04 -0000

Don't have the codex to hand but IIRC, Shon'tu is mentioned in the 5th ed SM Codex in the boxout with the galactic map. All the stories for Architect of Fate are taken from that boxout.

Re: The Unkindness of Ravens by George Mann – Limited Edition Review [Lord of the Night]

Jason Gross — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:59:58 -0000

How are the 19 illustrations by Karl Richardson?

Are those exclusively part of the Hellion Rain story? Or are some of the illustrations for Unkindness of Ravens?

Re: Miriam Black: Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig – Book Review [Bane of Kings]

BaneofKings — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:19:43 -0000

Oh, cool - thanks for the comment. I'll change it ASAP.

Re: Miriam Black: Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig – Book Review [Bane of Kings]

Chuck — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:32:24 -0000

Thanks for the very kind review!

(Sidenote: it's Wendig, not Wending, but believe me that you're one of maaaaany who have spelled it that way.)

-- c.

Re: The Emperor’s Gift by Aaron Dembski-Bowden – Advance Review [Lord of the Night]

ubergeek76 — Sun, 06 May 2012 18:04:33 -0000

Just finished the secound reading of my ebook, and I have to disagree. 10/10 is way too low. I would rate it 11/10, especially compared to the other "production line" book from BL. You have to give credit to a writer that does his background work so good that I actually understand the "Fenrisian" in this book, since its based on my native language. So this is quality, not quantity like some other wh40k books. Sov godt, helten.

Re: Honour Guard by Dan Abnett – Review [EJ Davies]

Abhinav Jain — Thu, 03 May 2012 04:05:25 -0000

Ban Daur was never captured. That'd be Corbec and a random Ghost.As for Gaunt failing, the important subtext is not that he failed, but he was forced to take the city earlier than planned, the hasty plans backfired and more of the city was destroyed than it should have. And not just any city, but the primary city on the Saint's own world! That's the main psychological motivation for him turning to alcohol and which I really liked in the novel. Coming off Necropolis, Honour Guard is not as strong a novel admittedly, but it is certainly better than most,especially Ghostmaker and some of the Lost arc novels.

Re: Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson – Book Review [Bane of Kings]

Abhinav Jain — Tue, 01 May 2012 03:59:13 -0000

Damn, that's high praise indeed! Guess I'll have to come around to these novels myself then!

Re: Assassin’s Creed: Renaissance by Oliver Bowden – Book Review [Bane of Kings]

Abhinav Jain — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:34:22 -0000

The WarCraft II novelizations are really, really terrible. Take what Big_cheddars said about Renaissance but add bad, bad writing to it. Not the worst novels I've read (that title goes to Keith DeCandido's StarCraft: Nova) but they are close enough. And I'd been looking forward to reading them too! I have the review of the first one on my blog. Never got around to finishing the second one because I just couldn't go any further with it. Sad stuff.

Edit: to add a Black Library context, they are worse than the first Dawn of War and about on par with Sons of Dorn.

Re: Prospero Burns by Dan Abnett – Review

Jim Andruchow — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:23:02 -0000

I agree with your review as I was let down by this book. However, I am 150 pages into Abnett's "Know No Fear" and it is AWESOME.

Re: Assassin’s Creed: Renaissance by Oliver Bowden – Book Review [Bane of Kings]

BaneofKings — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:15:36 -0000

Thanks for replying. Yeah, it's pretty much a general rule that video game novelizations aren't as good as the game themselves. Or at least, I'm yet to find anything that breaks that rule yet.

Re: Assassin’s Creed: Renaissance by Oliver Bowden – Book Review [Bane of Kings]

Big_cheddars — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:32:14 -0000

I completely agree; I brought the novel back in 2009 when it first came out with the game, and the first one hundred pages are excellent when characters are introduced and storylines formed, but after that.... The problem is for me is that the game is very fast-paced action for the most part, and the book equally fast-paced, Bowden couldn't actually describe all the action. There'd be far too much of it. So what he did is gloss over just about everything with a veneer of description, and sort of catalogue the events. The plot of the game is so vast that to write it all, in the level of detail that the game achieves (which could be done with a very good writer), you're lookin at thousands of pages, because you'd have to include all the script, the action, the background, the description, everything. So instead Bowden made the novel very, very fast, and went over everything quickly. It was alright, but the game already did it better to be honest.

Re: Architect of Fate edited by Christian Dunn – Advanced Review Part One [Lord of the Night]

Eliphasthemighty — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:30:15 -0000

Guys i really didn't understand what Sanctus have to do with this anthology? And i didnt understand the ending or where are Fateweaver in it? Could someone explain it to me

Re: The Night Lords Trilogy: Void Stalker by Aaron Dembski-Bowden – Advanced Review [Bane of Kings]

Ken — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:34:04 -0000

I really felt sorry for Uzas as well. He shouldn't have died the way he did.

Re: Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis Season 1 by Big Finish – Audio Drama Review [Shadowhawk]

Richard — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:05:23 -0000

And there's a Season 3 coming soon - full cast with Claudia Black and Michael Shanks. Two box sets. You can see details of the first one here: http://www.bigfinish.com/Starg...

Re: Dead Harvest by Chris F. Holm – Book Review [Shadowhawk]

Larrybkillian — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:25:33 -0000

I loved this book and can not wait for the test of the series to come out. Nice review.

Re: Legion of the Damned by Rob Sanders – Review [Lord of the Night]

Christian Friis Jensen — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:40:28 -0000

I definitely think Sanders has a real knack for characterising the followers of the Blood God, both due to this book and a very memorable passage in "Atlas Infernal" involving a Khornate cult-ship making a brief appearance. Granted, the Blood Pact is much more nuanced than mr. Sanders' berserker legions, since they fight intelligently. Despite the fact that Sanders' Khornites are relatively one-dimensional in terms of ambition, motivation and such, but he really brings the feel of utter madness, frenzy and lust for violence across. They are genuinely scary, and genuinely threatening because he really does pull out all the stops to hammer the point home that these people (and things) only live for killing and destroying, making them dehumanized and "un-relatable" in a way that really works.

Re: Dead Harvest by Chris F. Holm – Book Review [Shadowhawk]

Ed Fortune — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:06:15 -0000

I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to the next in the series.

Re: The Emperor’s Gift by Aaron Dembski-Bowden – Advance Review [Lord of the Night]

Ave Maleficum — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 12:41:41 -0000

IMO,Ben Counter sucks at every level,his Grey Knight novel was one of the worst novels I have ever seen.
Sorry to say this,but he has no talents.

Re: Alex Verus: Fated by Benedict Jacka – Book Review [Bane of Kings]

LordoftheNight — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:22:37 -0000

I'll be giving this a try eventually. To me originality means less than quality, after all is anything truly original anymore? Yes, but not a lot.

Re: Alex Verus: Fated by Benedict Jacka – Book Review [Bane of Kings]

wulfric — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:51:54 -0000

Sadly, I have to agree. Overly derivative but still an enjoyable read. I'm glad you picked up on the great supporting cast, which is the best bit of the book and certainly more interesting than Alex himself. 3/5 is about right...

Re: Review: Legion of the Damned by Rob Sanders [EJ Davies]

Abhinav Jain — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:00:23 -0000

I'm confused, is the review favourable or unfavourable? Also, you mentioned Kersh as being a company champion at one point, he's actually chapter champion as you previously mentioned. And the chapter master is not dead, merely severely injured.

Re: Author Interview – VM Zito

Larry B. Killian — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:59:12 -0000

Very awesome interview!

Re: Author Interview – VM Zito

Monkeycstars — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:53:27 -0000

Great interview.
I'm excited to get my signed copy and i purchased one for my BF too :)

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Re: Horus Heresy: The Primarchs – Edited by Christian Dunn – Advance Review Part One [Lord of the Night]

Abhinav Jain — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:31:47 -0000

I'm referring to the ones about Ferrus and his special-case opponents that together form half the narrative of the novel.

Re: Horus Heresy: The Primarchs – Edited by Christian Dunn – Advance Review Part One [Lord of the Night]

LordoftheNight — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:57:57 -0000

Really? The only spoilers I can see are the things I mentioned about Fulgrim, the novel, and surely anyone who reads this review has already read Fulgrim.

If not them then do point them out to me so that I can correct them.