The End and the Death: Volume II
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Publisher Description
Siege of Terra Book 8, Part 2
Volume II picks up right where the first left off, with cataclysmic events building up to an epic conclusion that will shake the very galaxy to its core.
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The final battle aboard the Warmaster’s flagship has begun in earnest, as Sanguinius defies his fate and the Dark Gods in an attempt to end his brother’s life, and the war along with it.
THE STORY
Terra is besieged. The outcome of the war lies on a knife edge. The Warmaster Horus’ bloody seven-year crusade has led to this – the cradle of humanity, where he is to kill his father, the Emperor.
With the war at this critical juncture, Sanguinius, primarch of the loyalist Blood Angels, braves the horrors of the Warmaster’s flagship, The Vengeful Spirit, with a single purpose in mind – to slay his brother Horus, decapitate the Heresy once and for all, and stop the forces of Chaos from taking Terra.
But at the whim of a Warmaster fallen so far from grace, the Dark Gods will not make Sanguinius’ task easy. As the war edges towards its explosive, bloody conclusion, events are about to unfold that could either save humanity or plunge it headlong into an eternity of darkness.
Written by Dan Abnett.
Customer Reviews
Abnett being Abnett
Abnett seems to be linking all his previous threads - the dark king, the city of dust, etc etc. Good read even if the end is sudden
Slow Weighty and Abstract
Like volume 1, the often ingenious Abnett has pumped out a laborious and oddly unexciting 2nd Act. A twist sustains interest - except it isn’t all that great of a twist. This book is largely metaphysical, the confusion is deliberate I get that, but it is less clever and more annoying than it wants to be. The time honoured method of starting a chapter with a detail from the previous to make everything seem connected becomes just annoying. There are too many cross cuts too many characters and yet somehow there are still threads to tie and the story still isn’t finished and underserves a 3rd volume. Less would have been more, this feels rushed, experimental but not in a good way, not the pinnacle of a master’s craft, and it needed a strong editor which it obviously lacked. Like volume 1 I skim read large sections to find some meat. It should never have ended like this after the amazing beginning of the sublime Horus Heresy series… I have hope for the Scouring!