Horus Heresy: Legion by Dan Abnett
|
List Price: Our Price: $4.78 You Save: $4.21 (47%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $1.04 (click here) Category: Book See more book details and other editions |
|---|
Book Reviews of Horus Heresy: Legion
Book Review: The Series gets back on track.
Summary: 5 Stars
Dan just comes in and hits one out of the park again IMHO! He does a wonderful job of portraying the mysterious Alpha Legion without over exposure, so as to keep their secretive image intact. He focuses on their scheming, ploting and spying with Imperial officers being the pawns in the delicate game being played throughout the book.
Dan also clearly shows us at the end why the Alpha Legion choose the path they did in the last few chapters. IMHO Dan covers all bases while weaving a good story. This is a good read which redeems the series after the awful "Decent of Angels" book which seemed to drag on and then quickly wrap up with very little answered.
*****WARNING SPOILER!!!!********
*****WARNING SPOILER!!!!********
*****WARNING SPOILER!!!!********
*****WARNING SPOILER!!!!********
*****WARNING SPOILER!!!!********
*****WARNING SPOILER!!!!********
*****WARNING SPOILER!!!!********
IMHO the Alpha Legion was tricked into making the wrong choice. They were played by the xeno lead Cabal who basically pointed out the "violent tendency of humanity" when they had their meeting with them. Take a look at the last thing John says in the book as another source of evidence to my view.
*****WARNING SPOILER!!!!********
Book Review: Yes! This Book Is Exactly What This Series Needed!
Summary: 5 Stars
Finally a Horus Heresy novel that isn't about 3 billion Marines blasting away at 3 trillion renegade humans / xenos / traitor marines!
This novel was absolutely engrossing from the moment it was picked up until the moment it was put on the shelf beside the rest of the Horus Heresy novels. The intrigue, deceptions and plot twists start at the very beginning and don't let up throghout the entire story. The Astartes were used very sparingly, with the reader only seeing perhaps half a dozen of them in total until the end of the story. This helps keep the reader wondering exactly what part they play, and keeps the Imperial Guard soldiers that encounter them in absolute awe of them rather than a common and quickly forgotten encounter.
The end of the story was amazing, it was completely not what I wanted to happen by the time I made the journey there, but exactly what would have happened in reality, and that made it all the more memorable.
This novel stands in stark contrast to The Flight of The Eisenstein (Absolute bottom of the barrel for this amazing series of books) and I suggest to anyone who is standing here trying to decide which Horus Heresy novel to read next; this is the one.
Book Review: The 2nd most informative and Interesting Horus Heresy Novel
Summary: 5 Stars
At first I was skeptical of the book through the first 20-30 pages, the setting was just unfamiliar for a Warhammer 40k novel and I had seen almost no mention of any Astartes.
But that's what's truly great about it...
Dan Abnett writes about the Alpha Legion PERFECTLY. I was always critical of the Astartes Legions simply for their quasi-invincibility and extraordinary firepower and Dan Abnett, in an amazing book, turned all my presumptions and perceptions around! The novel is exhilarating and the Alpha Legion is easily the most interesting legion to read about. More than mere soldiers, they act more like spies and throughout the whole novel you rarely see them fight. Rather, they twist, manipulate, and discover secrets within the universe in order to gain mastery of their surroundings. They're not the Emperor's lapdogs like other legions are; rather, while accepting the Emperor and ultimately following his beliefs for the good of mankind, they are still critical of his Utopian ideals.
I don't want to spoil the story, suffice to say that it teaches you a lot about not only the horus heresy but the warhammer universe in the future as well.
5 stars, easily.
Book Review: Indirect Directness, or withhold until they cry
Summary: 5 Stars
I like Dan Abnett. I like everything he writes, even though he violates my sense of unity. What am I saying? He uses multiple limited points of view, shifting the POV quickly, routinely, sometimes two to a page. I would not accept this from most writers but Dan, oh well, I forgive him. Why? Because he writes a rollicking good story, even though he invariably hides the prize. Here, we have a novel, supposedly about the Alpha Legion, but where is the Alpha Legion; it is hiding somewhere in the seams or on the edges of the novel. We draw close sometimes but the Legion skitters away. Suspense is built from our anticipation. In the process we meet a cadre of interesting characters, sharply drawn, because Dan believes in evoking images that titillate all the senses, in the middle of a war against Chaos, which, you guessed it, we don't really see. It is flirtation, hesitation, and delay. He makes us love Peto and Hurtado and then he kills them or does he? Infuriating, yes; exciting yes. Will there be a sequel? Will we see John Grammaticus again? What about the Legion? We don't know. We hope but who knows?Book Review: The alpha legion in depth
Summary: 5 Stars
A great look into the inner workings of Alpha legion, the way they operate, the way the think, and how they react to obstacles. The plot keeps you guessing and really hooked me with it's "spy/espionage" encounters. I finished this book understanding Alpha Legion much more then from the short stories and fluff I've read over the years.
The Horus Heresy Series is the "fleshing out" of many,many years of fluff from the GW WH40k Universe. I love the concept of this series, showing events taking place simultaneously across the entire galaxy--a monumental task indeed. Most everyone knows the short version of the Horus Heresy story, but this series is to tell the entire story and give diehard fans what they have been begging for, the BIG PICTURE.Additionally this series can be for newcomers to the 40K universe that want to learn the who,what,where,how and why things happened the way they happened. It is not meant to be an "instant gratification" story to be read in one book. I want to know every detail about this war and finally GW is delivering!