Saturnine
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4.7 • 140 Ratings
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- £5.49
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
Siege of Terra Book 4
As the traitors tighten their grip on Terra, Rogal Dorn must marshal the Imperial hosts to weather the storm. But not all of the defenders will survive the onslaught…
READ IT BECAUSE
Dan Abnett returns to the Horus Heresy! Experience one of the crucial stages of the Siege, as Rogal Dorn and Horus match wits in a game of Regicide where the board is the Throneworld itself, and one wrong move could lead to utter devastation…
THE STORY
The Traitor Host of Horus Lupercal tightens its iron grip on the Palace of Terra, and one by one the walls and bastions begin to crumple and collapse. Rogal Dorn, Praetorian of Terra, redoubles his efforts to keep the relentless enemy at bay, but his forces are vastly outnumbered and hopelessly outgunned. Dorn simply cannot defend everything. Any chance of survival now requires sacrifice, but what battles dare he lose so that others can be won? Is there one tactical stroke, one crucial combat, that could turn the tide forever and win the war outright?
Written by Dan Abnett
Customer Reviews
Every page worth the reading.
If you understand why zrenderuje version of The Lord of the Rings movie is better than normal one, you will also appreciate long read of the Saturnine. What an amazing story with number of plots, cliffhangers and rich personalities.
Good dynamics and well embedded feeling of the dark moments of terra.
On the last page i was disappointed only with one thing: why there was no another 200 pages to read?
You won’t be disappointed!
Stunning. Best book in the series!
Easily the highlight
Dan Abnett is a proper writer. The other Siege/Heresy authors can be very good, almost great sometimes, but none really has the pedigree or talent of Abnett. There’s a real quality just to the writing, in style and construction.
Saturnine is never dull. It’s never a battle report or an endless list of war machines and numerical death stats. I read this series for the stories more than people who play the game. I guess some like the stats and gameplay style from some authors, but Dan Abnett’s books are always a clever mix of tension, emotion, sweeping thematic arcs, and a feeling of the epic set against the intimate. Saturnine features some of the most epic battles ever written for 40K lit but it’s easily it’s best when it’s just quiet conversations in darkened rooms. As Abnett set the original grown up tone in Horus Rising years ago, so it returns here with a lot of characters who’ve become cartoonish in other hands restored to cinematic greatness.
There’s a lot of fans up in arms about some lore changes here, and I did agree with one or two, but as one of Saturnine’s themes is about how history comes to be written, often cobbled together from myth, confusion, exaggeration, and distortion, it’s perfectly fine to see Saturnine not so much telling you what’s true but giving you one of the better lies that form part of the whole.
5 stars all the way.