Horus Heresy: Legion by Dan Abnett
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Book Reviews of Horus Heresy: Legion
Book Review: A Decent Read
Summary: 3 Stars
I had high hopes for Legion, as the Alpha Legion are my second-favorite Chaos army, but in the end this book disappointed. It almost seems like two stories: one about the Guard, which is interesting and engaging but ultimately pointless, and another about the Alpha Legion, which is fragmented, sparse, and has a ridiculous ending, but is still incredibly important in the greater context of the Horus Heresy. Good enough to pass the time, but not a must-read for any 40K fan.Book Review: Decent pulp but for Warhammer fans only
Summary: 3 Stars
No one doubts that Abnet is the best of Games Workshop's stable of writers. He routinely delivers solid action stories with a good dose of fresh ideas, coined words, and solid characters.
Legion is no exception to his run, a good book to read on a plane or during a long commute.
One warning, if you're not up on Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000AD game, and not into the minue of Space Marine chapters, the great crusade etc you'll be lost.
Book Review: Churning Them Out
Summary: 2 Stars
I started reading Warhammer novels with the Horus Heresy. I'm a big fan of the first three books. However since the third novel the books have been on a downward trend. That trend continues with Legion. The plot seems cobbled together, the bevy of protagonists presented are confusing and un-sypathetic characters, and the plot twist at the end is so bizarre it casts doubt over the entire warhammer universe.
I sincerely hope the authors quit dragging this out in an apparent effort to continue revenue and get back to the roots of the Horus Heresy.
Book Review: Once again
Summary: 2 Stars
We find a book, the second in a row, with little bearing on the Heresy. It's as if the Black library wants to pinch every dollar out of every side plot and shlack the title of Horus Heresy on it just for profit's sake. These lesser side-stories should be reserved until after the main plot is resolved, somewhat of a look back. Like Angels, its a good story...just not THE story continuation we want.Book Review: Alpha Legion, shrouded in secrecy, still leaves you scratching your head.
Summary: 1 Stars
As a very avid fan of most Warhammer 40k novels, and more specifically the Horus Heresy series, I, like most waited most impatiently for the release of Legion. Not only was the book to be authored by Dan Abnett, one of, if not the best Black Library has to offer, but its main focus was to address the Alpha Legion, one of the most secretive and potentially fascinating of the Space Marine legions. I purchased this book as soon as it was available, devouring it in less than two days. And I would like to say to both Dan Abnett and Black Library; I want those two days back! Not only did this 400+ pg novel offer very little if any new information about the primarch Alpharius that wasn't already known to most fans of the 40k universe; the Alpha Legion, maintaining their shadowy facade, weren't even in the book more than 60pgs. And if that weren't enough, the climax of the book, which reveals the very reason that Alpharius and his Twentieth Legion betray the Imperium of Man, is condensed onto one and one-half pages, twenty pages before the end of the book! With most of this work focusing on the Imperial Army and its respective officers and Strategists, I felt that once again, the hype did not deliver, or it could be my expectations are too high. DO NOT read this expecting great space marine action, just a lot of pseudo-militaristic banter, with some sporatic action thrown in. And despite having 400+ pages to work with, the Alpha Legion didn't even get to show their combat skills until the book was all but finished, leaving this reader to numb and upset to care at that point that anything was going on. I certainly hope that the next volume in the series is much better than the previous two. With a series that started strong with the first trilogy, it looks like the Horus Heresy saga is running out of steam.