nta anon, if you were okay with the quality of the first two books Id say read it. Its hard to say it was legitimately good because if I say I've enjoyed the abnettverse on this board those two or three shizo posters are going to start spamming/bumping the thread with 400 posts calling everyone a secondary and screeching BL isn't canon it is LE MARVEL.
I don't think it was really any worse than the story we already had but certainly not better. It was mostly a retelling to set up plotlines in nu42k lore so if youve been enjoying the new Cadia into Pariah Nexus/Vashtorr stuff it might end up being relevant in like 6 years.
I generally like abnetts stuff (I know this board has a huge hateboner for him) but this 3rd book feels really unnecessary and unfocused. We finally get to see what happens to Loken which is PROBABLY actually more important and it feels unsatisfying and overly edgy to me. he dies trying to get abaddon to surrender and beg forgiveness, him getting slaughtered makes a demon thats probably going to show up soon in 42k lore. it just doesnt make sense to me after the whole protodeathwatch storyline that he would try to reason with abaddon.
Very heavily mid at best, really just shit.
Horus gets killed by a Word Bearer corrupted Chaos Dagger the Emperor didnt realize to be warp corrupted after being delivered by fake (the perpetual thus not dead) Ollianus who uses 2 books worth of drama to knock horus back after being given a 0 to 100 redemption arc in 2 pages.
Entire side crew is fricked, Loken acts OOC 80% of his scenes.
Best part of the book is Dorn returning to slightly more root depiction and "Tarot card games in Warp Illusions" and i swear both are only good due to tertiary material unrelated to the book itself.
>corrupted Chaos Dagger the Emperor didnt realize to be warp corrupted after being delivered by fake (the perpetual thus not dead) Ollianus who uses 2 books worth of drama to knock horus back
t. speedreader
If you can't get the basic facts right when complaining then your opinion belongs in the garbage.
it was pretty disappointing even with low expectations, I felt like the changes made were for the worse than what was presented before, and other characters ends just felt extremely nonsensical (there is no reason Loken would want to convince Abby to repent especially given what he went through), while not the worse book in the series it was a pretty poor end, at least HH is over even when you factor in the likely scouring series that will follow
>there is no reason Loken would want to convince Abby to repent
That was such bullshit. At this point Loken should be on rip and tear mode. There is nothing to talk, Earth is the fricking Thunder Dome and two factions enter only one faction live. "Muh brother, think logically..." ah come on. Just smash his face.
the worse part is how Erebus just comes out of nowhere just to stab, with said event being the one that for some reason creates Samus, which also really doesn't fit in either, what was it even about Samus that would even related to some guy getting killed by a different guy he wasn't really close with to start with
Horus depowering to prove he is human and loved his dad
was the only part I liked. It had some emotional tone to it.
The combat in itself was moronic, the custodian then the space marine
then Ollanius.... Otherwise it didn't conclude much as neither Horus or
big E had any character arc. Ollanius is fricking dead with the rest of the
perpetual plotline thank god.
Honestly I didn't mind horus's death. Horus death at least had both the Emperor and Horus torn between being gods and being human which was a nice touch. It was loken's death that was fricking moronic.
I swear to god Abnett was just phoning this in at this point and wanted to be done. Did he even skim the like 5 books Loken is actually a character?
At this point he is basically the leader of what would become Deathwatch. There is no mercy and that's been heavily established. He literally gets told by Leman Russ over a game of SUPERCHESS to just fricking kill people and get over it at this point.
>What did /tg/ think of it?
I think it was a letdown and this expectation subversion meme needs to become a writing fallacy to be avoided by future writers.
What happens in it?
How the Emperor tricked horus was dumb, rest was decent
I think it was ironic that there was this huge stink over scalpers and GW overpricing the book and I got it for free.
Based free poster, is it worth actually reading? Or would it be a waste of my time ?
nta anon, if you were okay with the quality of the first two books Id say read it. Its hard to say it was legitimately good because if I say I've enjoyed the abnettverse on this board those two or three shizo posters are going to start spamming/bumping the thread with 400 posts calling everyone a secondary and screeching BL isn't canon it is LE MARVEL.
I don't think it was really any worse than the story we already had but certainly not better. It was mostly a retelling to set up plotlines in nu42k lore so if youve been enjoying the new Cadia into Pariah Nexus/Vashtorr stuff it might end up being relevant in like 6 years.
I generally like abnetts stuff (I know this board has a huge hateboner for him) but this 3rd book feels really unnecessary and unfocused. We finally get to see what happens to Loken which is PROBABLY actually more important and it feels unsatisfying and overly edgy to me. he dies trying to get abaddon to surrender and beg forgiveness, him getting slaughtered makes a demon thats probably going to show up soon in 42k lore. it just doesnt make sense to me after the whole protodeathwatch storyline that he would try to reason with abaddon.
Very heavily mid at best, really just shit.
Horus gets killed by a Word Bearer corrupted Chaos Dagger the Emperor didnt realize to be warp corrupted after being delivered by fake (the perpetual thus not dead) Ollianus who uses 2 books worth of drama to knock horus back after being given a 0 to 100 redemption arc in 2 pages.
Entire side crew is fricked, Loken acts OOC 80% of his scenes.
Best part of the book is Dorn returning to slightly more root depiction and "Tarot card games in Warp Illusions" and i swear both are only good due to tertiary material unrelated to the book itself.
>corrupted Chaos Dagger the Emperor didnt realize to be warp corrupted after being delivered by fake (the perpetual thus not dead) Ollianus who uses 2 books worth of drama to knock horus back
t. speedreader
If you can't get the basic facts right when complaining then your opinion belongs in the garbage.
erebus fricking won
dunno, go ask /hhg/ or reddit
it was pretty disappointing even with low expectations, I felt like the changes made were for the worse than what was presented before, and other characters ends just felt extremely nonsensical (there is no reason Loken would want to convince Abby to repent especially given what he went through), while not the worse book in the series it was a pretty poor end, at least HH is over even when you factor in the likely scouring series that will follow
>there is no reason Loken would want to convince Abby to repent
That was such bullshit. At this point Loken should be on rip and tear mode. There is nothing to talk, Earth is the fricking Thunder Dome and two factions enter only one faction live. "Muh brother, think logically..." ah come on. Just smash his face.
the worse part is how Erebus just comes out of nowhere just to stab, with said event being the one that for some reason creates Samus, which also really doesn't fit in either, what was it even about Samus that would even related to some guy getting killed by a different guy he wasn't really close with to start with
I had erased this from my mind, thanks I gonna do everything to forget again.
CARD GAMES IN THE WARP!
>look it up on audible
>book "one" is described as the "final act"
where the actual frick am I starting with this new version of events?
Horus depowering to prove he is human and loved his dad
was the only part I liked. It had some emotional tone to it.
The combat in itself was moronic, the custodian then the space marine
then Ollanius.... Otherwise it didn't conclude much as neither Horus or
big E had any character arc. Ollanius is fricking dead with the rest of the
perpetual plotline thank god.
If you are going to copy+paste, at least check your formatting.
Honestly I didn't mind horus's death. Horus death at least had both the Emperor and Horus torn between being gods and being human which was a nice touch. It was loken's death that was fricking moronic.
I swear to god Abnett was just phoning this in at this point and wanted to be done. Did he even skim the like 5 books Loken is actually a character?
At this point he is basically the leader of what would become Deathwatch. There is no mercy and that's been heavily established. He literally gets told by Leman Russ over a game of SUPERCHESS to just fricking kill people and get over it at this point.
I liked it a lot. I laughed when Loken got got, he was such a boring character.
>What did /tg/ think of it?
I think it was a letdown and this expectation subversion meme needs to become a writing fallacy to be avoided by future writers.