I Am Slaughter
Warhammer 40,000
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3.9 • 31 Ratings
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- £7.99
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
The Beast Arises is a Black Library event series, twelve books over twelve months detailing the greatest war since the Horus Heresy. Every book is packed with outrageous action and unexpected revelations as the Imperium is rocked by an ork invasion that tears the galaxy apart.
The Story
It is the thirty-second millennium and the Imperium is at peace. The Traitor Legions of Chaos are but a distant memory and the many alien races that have long plagued mankind are held in check by the Space Marines. When a mission to exterminate one such xenos breed on the world of Ardamantua draws in more of their forces, the Imperial Fists abandon the walls of Terra for the first time in more than a thousand years. And when another, greater, foe strikes, even the heroic sons of Rogal Dorn may be powerless against it. The Beast Arises… and it is mighty.
Read it Because
It's the start of a brand new (and more epic than the most epic thing you can think of) event series from Black Library. It's a brand new story set in an unexplored era of Imperial history and as well as showing the entire Imperial Fists chapter in action against an ork invasion of staggering scale, it gives us a look at Terra itself, the machinations of the High Lords and the start of the Imperium's slide into the dystopian horror we all know and love. Also, did we mention orks? Lots of orks. Seriously, so many orks.
Customer Reviews
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Just a Curtain Opener and a Dull One at That
Dan Abnett is normally pretty reliable and often brilliant - maybe he wrote this on a weekend? Since the main antagonists don’t arrive til the end we are stuck with Fists fighting giant cockroaches (no, not Tyranids) and gravity (yep gravity) for most of this colourless and oddly boring novella. I skim-read large sections, but the payoff wasn’t worth it. I will sample the next but so far it looks like the Beast Arises is best read on Lexicanium in summary form.
Rip off
200 pages for £9.99 when there are 12 books in the series all released in the same year! It seems they are trying to bleed every penny from us as usual. The story isnt gripping either. I dont recommend based on the cheeky price point, also about 3-4 print errors where paragraphs are repeated, probably to boost word count!