Not Horus Heresy, but I’ve also been having fun with the Fabius Bile Omnibus by Josh Reynolds and The Night Lords Omnibus by Aaron Dembski-Bowden. In general, heretic novels, at least the ones I’ve read, have a higher quality on average than the loyalist ones. Xenos ones can be fun too, Infinite and Divine, Twice Dead King, Ghazghkull Thraka, and Brutal Kunnin’ were all fun. The best loyalist one I’ve found so far was The Fall of Cadia, but even that’s mostly just big good guy shoots big gun at big bad guy. Might as well read Ork books at that point, they’re at least having fun. Actually, that’s not quite right, The Great Work is also a good loyalist one, although I’d have preferred more Cawl and less Primaris Marines.
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A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Accurate, although there are exceptions. Betrayer + First Heretic come to mind, those were fun.
CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I don’t remember the specific books but there is a specific thing that I thought was brilliant. One book follows an Astartes that starts to suspect heresy in their ship and he escapes it, he approaches another ship and recognizes the Astartes on the other end of the radio and confides in him about his suspicion and he lets him onboard. Then in another book you follow the story of that other Astartes, who starts to suspect heresy in the fleet and when the radio call comes it confirms his suspicions.
Not the greatest thing ever, but it was a cool thing that I don’t think I’ve seen any other book series do something similar.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
That is Flight of the Eisenstein. The part where the Gellar field starts to fail while they’re in the Warp is also quite entertaining.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Flight of the Eisenstein is pretty good too.
Klear@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
I only started reading Horus Heresy because the first novel is by Abnett. Took me until like the 15th to realise the rest of them suck.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I really respect what a literary undertaking it was but… jesus christ, when the recommended reading order has to come in the form of charts like this maybe you should prune down the number of entries in the series guys.
Odo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This image keeps crashing my phone’s browser from the sheer size, which just makes your point even funnier.