Customer Reviews:
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 Battle for excitement September 14, 2008
Aaron Hilsman
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was just ok. Not one of the strongest books in the series.
 Abyss September 11, 2008
Jason Flammond (Fayetteville, NC)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Definitely a good read, a lot of action with good subplots. While the story was a good one, it seems that these books completely avoid the main events of the heresy. I would think a book about the battle between the Word Bearers and the Ultramarines along with the Primarchs would better support the storyline of the heresy. These side stories are good, but more attention should be paid to the main events.
 Good side story September 7, 2008
K. Su (Chicago, IL)
I must agree with many of the other critiques that this is a good side story and it does have some strong action packed scenes. Finally we get to see one of the Thousand Sons in action (I always felt that their story was one of the most tragic). The downside is that we didn't get to see any of the Primarchs. Like the title says, it's a good story but only a side story.
A return to relevent and furious action. September 5, 2008
A. Nonimowse. (California)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I couldn't put this book down. Even if it hadn't been for the last two books in this series being lackluster, I would have still be transfixed, as I was, by this book.
This book is basically non-stop action. I liked that the combat scenes in this book weren't drawn out -- there wasn't four pages of back and forth parrying and riposting and bolter shells. When it came down to it most one-on-one combats were swift and lethal. I enjoyed that change. I don't mind extended hand-to-hand combat scenes, but sometimes it can get repetitive. This book did not suffer from this.
Battle for the Abyss does a good job of showing the budding mindset of the Chaos forces. The opulence, the arrogance, the blind faith, the intoxication of power, and the alliances with demons -- it's all shown here. The roots of the Legions turning against their brothers. The Imperial Truth and Light of the Ultramarines contrasted with the passionate religious zealotry of the Word Bearers. Very entertaining.
For a very fast moving action novel the author does a good job of giving the main characters enough depth, exposing some interesting motivations and choices, to flesh out the story and make it robust without detracting from the pace.
I'm glad the series has returned to this kind of novel and I can only hope that the next book in the series follows suit. This novel had made me long, once again, for the next release which seems like an agonizingly distant event.
Not Bad September 1, 2008
Ng Vee Kee (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
This book is ok, although I'm still missing the great stories telling of the first 3 books from this series.
This book offers interesting but stereotyped of the 4 legions (ultramarines, world eaters, word bearers and space wolves). The warp attack on the loyalist ship is repetitive, and maybe more should have been told and developed about the lone world eaters's adventure in the Abyss.
Overall, it's not bad.
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