Slaves to Darkness (The Horus Heresy)

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The Iron Warriors primarch is blunt, expects total obedience and will bump off officers at a rate a Commissar would baulk at, but it's not without reason. The way he's written doesn't make it seem as if he's looking for an excuse to kill everyone around him, or simply has rage as his only emotion. It's far closer in nature to the original Index Astartes source material than with many past works, and what we have here more than makes up for a few past mistakes. Even when the book does delve into bolter porn, it's well-timed and extremely well planned. Much of this surrounds the Iron Warriors, but it's used to comment on the state they are in. It draws attention to how the world has changed and ultimately what has become of the well-supplied supplied forces which once made up the legions. This is most evident during the rearguard actions against the Ultramarines and their allied battlegroups, but it even shows up on a very ground level view. Away from the primarchs, the gods and the prophecies, you can see how this has reshaped the soldiers fighting in them even when they are just astartes fighting other astartes bereft of Chaos' direct influence. Plus it even tries to deal with one long-standing issue of casualties, but that does, unfortunately, open up one possible plot hole as it is. When considering characters, I think Lorgar and Perturabo stole the show. They were very well handled, in my opinion. Big appearances, as primarchs should be, continuing the developments made by other books and authors and still adding to them. The last scene with Lorgar was too very good, and surprising also. Very curious to see what road he will be on after this book ... At over fifty books in the series the Horus Heresy at times has been required to allow itself to indulge in the occasional filler book and Slaves to Darkness certainly fits this particular bill. I The Solar War • II The Lost and the Damned • III The First Wall • Sons of the Selenar • IV Saturnine • Fury of Magnus • V Mortis • VI Warhawk • VII Echoes of Eternity • Garro: Knight of Grey • VIII The End and the Death ( Volume I • Volume II • Volume III)

Leader Eidolon has actually functioned you right into a tool versus which the greenskins had no assistance. Excellence, endurance, self-discipline: these premium quality are the reducing side of the Multitude as well as likewise you have really revealed them okay below today. This orbital remains in Imperial hands once more, as are the others the greenskins had really inhabited in the pointless hope of fending off our invasion. If interested in some happenings in between, you could read the summary of Imperium Secundus wiki article to get the general gest of what has happened https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Impe...To me this book feels like a clean up operation, 50 books in and still not all pieces were in place for the big finale, the siege of Terra and it feels as if they did not want to just make them show up at the first book of that series so they had to write their final gathering before the big push. But at the same time they also wanted to write a story of Lorgar who was tempted to grab power from Horus, they also wanted to talk about lingering doubts within Horus, they felt a need to give Leaman Russ's spear assault a bit more meaning, they wanted to write how the first Iron warrior obliterator came to be, they wanted to make a symbolic reconnection to Horus big triumph at Ullanor and present this twisted dark mirror and they wanted Angron and Perturabo to have a fight and they .... See what I am trying to say here? It was like they had this pot full of ideas that never had gotten their moment and decided to pour them all in one book. It is just to much. Finished Slaves to darkness this evening. What a wonderful addition to the HH series. Enjoyed it massively. 5 out of 5. Compliments to you for such an entertaining novel at this stage of our journey. Some thoughts. Mild spoilers ahead. And for friends of short summary, you could only read chapter 19, although nobody would fault you if you'd just ignore the whole thing.

Perhaps I am a bit to harsh with my rating but at the halfway mark, I could not help and say to myself; what is the point of this book? The possible answer I have, did not help.Argonis strode forwards. The Iron Circle twitched towards him but stilled as Perturabo turned to look at him. The reason I highlight these two, in particular, is that the book needed a solid basis for the others to work from and build the rest of the narrative around. Without that, the story would have been utterly overburdened in trying to divide its focus between so many different primarchs, their subordinates, and other characters besides. While the likes of Lorgar and Malgohurst also serve as a means to drive the narrative forward - and it's always nice to see the Twisted take a front row seat again - it needed a bolder and more brazenly examine the inherent problem the traitors suffer: Chaos is chaos. Surprisingly, one of the big highlights of the book proves to be Perturabo. John French's depiction of the character has not been a popular one in the past, often reducing the Lord of Iron to a screaming maniac. Along with the Forge World rulebooks, it seems to have approached him with the impression that he's more interested in finding excuses to kill his own troops than effectively leading his forces into battle. This was most obvious when compared with the (if somewhat problematic) more detailed look at the character Angel Exterminatus offered, which gave him some much-needed depth. More than a few people might have expected the return of the hammer-wielding madman, but the Perturabo we get here is far more tempered in his nature. Lots and lots of characters having less or more spotlight, Lorgar and Perturabo often steal the scene, but in the end the author gives to all of them the moment of glory they deserve: just wait for Alpharius and the Crimson King to make their appearance and see yourself.