This side of things is very much the big stompy heroes being big and stompy sort of narrative that usually turns me right of the Space Marines as a concept. We work closely with publishers and authors to ensure that we offer the best books on the market for your child.

Yes, we can seed this questions in the reader’s mind, but the focus here is killing heretics and saving history.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The story we get is a relatively straightforward quest narrative, with Helbrecht striving to retrieve a relic of Dorn, the Primarch founder of his genetic line. I always have a hard time with authors I perceive as "new" since Warhammer 40k is so close to my heart.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. There is a broader question regarding the legitimacy of Guilliman’s position, but that is not the focus of this particular book. High Marshal Helbrecht is back in the action after his meeting with Roboute Guilliman, doing what he does best – questing for a sacred relic with a handful of his best troops. Nevertheless, these moments of deeper philosophy raise this novel above the field of gore and action that characterised earlier Space Marine products. This book is definitely a step in the right direction so far as Warhammer fiction is going, but ultimately a short novel like Helbrecht: Knight of the Throne just isn’t the place for deeper ruminations on the nature of faith.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. These Character books are a great way to sample a new faction, to get a feel for an author’s style, and to poke at a new corner of the universe.