Horus Heresy: Battle for the Abyss by Ben Counter
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Book Reviews of Horus Heresy: Battle for the Abyss
Book Review: Does he even want characters in this book?
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm about 74 pages into this, and I am really starting to get annoyed by the "3 paragraphs of over the top description of what we see, 1 short sentence by random character", then a few more paragraphs of embellished scene description, with a line of dialogue, etc etc.
I haven't really gotten attached to ANY of the characters yet, since they basically throw in a cliched sentence every now and then.
And what is UP with the astropaths? Geesh, it's like all those Next Generation epidosed where the damn control console electrocutes half the bridge crew for no good reason, ever hear of CIRCUIT BREAKERS?!
It just seems that everytime we get astral characters talking long distance, it just about takes out the ship, base, army that is nearby. You'd think they would have ironed out the wrinkles by now or worked out some way of mitigating the astropocalypses these guys start every time ET phones home from the warp.
Hopefully I'll get used to the style or the style will mellow out a little and give me more character interaction other than trite dialogue about honoring your brother astartes, etc.
Book Review: sux
Summary: 1 Stars
Again just like the previous 2 books "Legion" and "The descent of angels". This book would have been an ok side story. But following the Horus Heresy like I thought the book series was doing, fails miserably. It was my impression that this book would detail the battle of Calth but it barely mentions it. I hope and pray that the series gets back on track. I've bought 3 books in a row and I can't take them back which is a total rip off. My advice is to not buy this book if like me you want the Horus heresy story to unfold. Because in this book you get no such story. I'm an avid reader of many books and I actually caught my self skipping pages, it was so boring. I expected more from Ben Counter. I'm going to leave a review on the black library page which you'll never see because they don't let bad reviews in. They need to pick up the story and take us along like we all wanted. Scrub these side stories and give us THE EPIC that the story truly is.Book Review: Disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars
In a word... disappointing. The HH series started out great. Horus Rising, False Gods, and Galaxy in Flames were all wonderful narratives that brought the reader along the path that will eventually (we hope) lead up to the ultimate battle between Horus and the Emperor to decide the fate of the Galaxy. Sadly, the books after those first three seem to be less and less about the Heresy and more like side stories soley to keep the series alive and the dollars flowing into Black Library's bank account. I am a loyal reader who has bought every book in the series, naively believing that it would advance the plot, and profoundly disappointed when it didn't.
Like someone else mentioned earlier, I will be reading reviews before purchasing Horus Heresy books from now on. Until Black Library gets back on track, Battle for the Abyss will be my last purchase in this series.
Book Review: Just avoid
Summary: 1 Stars
I have to agree with another reviewer, this book was absolutely terrible. Very little character development to speak of; I couldn't care less about what happened to them. Some of the primary characters' motives were difficult (if not impossible) to discern.
The plot dragged on, culminating with predictable and hackneyed writing in the final pages. I have read all of the Horus Heresy books, and 30 - 40 Warhammer 40k books. Of all of them, this one I dislike the most. The plot is not essential to the Horus Heresy storyline, and can be entirely avoided without missing any substantive materials.
I did have high expectations for this book, as until now (with the exception of Descent of Angels) the Horus Heresy series has been stellar. If your expectations are moderate, you may have a better reading experience.
Book Review: Let me down
Summary: 1 Stars
I pretty much read straight through the book in one day. I was hoping for a real glimpse of what the word bearers were all about. It has more to do with Ultramarines then Word bearers it seems. It would have been better to read one of their books instead of a Horus Heresy one. Instead of reading some cool stuff about a Traitor legion, the Word Bearers were made to seem inept and outclassed by a handful of astartes. I pretty much just skimmed the last few chapters as you could tell what was going to happen. 3 Loyalists versus hundreds of renegades. A real let down in the series.