Deathfire
The Horus Heresy
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4.5 • 40 Ratings
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- £5.49
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
Vulkan lies in state beneath the Fortress of Hera, and yet many of his sons still refuse to believe that he is truly dead. After a seemingly miraculous rescue by the Ultramarines, Artellus Numeon, once captain of the Pyre Guard, urges the other Salamanders on Macragge to leave Imperium Secundus and return their primarch’s body to the home world of Nocturne – there to be reborn in the flames of Mount Deathfire. But Numeon grapples endlessly with his doubts and fears for the future of the Legion, while their foes seek to carve out new destinies of their own...
Read it because
The Salamanders embark upon an odyssey across the galaxy. Primarchs, daemons and haunting visions bar their path and a physical journey becomes an emotional one as Numeon and his brothers struggle to reconcile Vulkan’s seeming death with their certainty that he will return. And let’s not forget the massive battle as the Death Guard invade Nocturne…
Customer Reviews
A good one
Once again the sheer inconsistency of the Horus Heresy Series shines though!
This is one of the better ones which may not be saying much considering the poor standards some of the books in this series have managed to plunge.
But I liked this book or perhaps it's more accurate to say I enjoyed half this book and found the other half interesting but hard going.
Firstly a word of warning, before reading this book it would be a good idea to read both Vulcan Lives and The Unremembered Empire as the first 100 pages of this books reference events, places and people from both those books and if like me you read both a good while ago your find yourself struggling to remember.
Okay back to the book, it is split into two halves both literally and figuratively, the first half is the set up, I didn't enjoy this half - it was slow, really slow, I found myself struggling to get though it I would read a bit put it down and come back later do a few more pages - oh boy it was hard going,
The second half the book cranks up the gears, the talking is over and we get to the action and the pay off, numerous fights, a tense chase and a final fight. Now this half I couldn't put down and raced though.
A few issues with the book apart from pacing, the enemies are not entirely fleshed out and the final battle is woefully short and feels a bit cheap considering the effort that went into the set up in fact it is one of the worse final battles in any 40k book in recent memory (in its defence the final battle is not the real pay off in the story just simply a way to get rid of the enemies prior to the real pay off)
But overall I enjoyed this story the first half heavy and slow but still engaging in its own way, the second half much more like how we expect our 40k books with big action and adventure, and with a starring cast of Salamanders who come alive on the page written by an author once again shows he is voice of the Salamanders