Nightbringer [novel]

Fairly stock standard Warhammer 40K sci-fi that left me feeling a little unsatisfied. Apart from a couple of clashes with the Eldar, I felt the humans were grossly outclassed by the Ultramarines. More importantly, the plot and story tries to be clever but is fairly well telegraphed in advance. Character development was pretty much non-existent, with the saving grace of Adept Barzano whose transformation I loved.

At the end I was left wondering - (trying not to reveal too many spoilers here) if the evil nemesis had that particular end goal in mind, why all the political machinations, manipulation and subterfuge? Everything else would have been inconsequential if he had just gone for the end goal, and he would probably have pulled it off show more as well. Of course, then the book would only be 1 chapter long. show less

A supernatural mystery/thriller novel set in the Warhammer 40k universe. If you know nothing about the 40k universe, I doubt this book would interest the reader as it has little to offer. Various alien races (Man, Space Marine, Dark Eldar, Necron) are packed into a unneccesary plot to overthrow a governor of a provincial planet. That's it. Bad guys die at the end, good guys live. All you really need to know.

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Science Fiction

Uriel Ventris, recién ascendido a capitán de los Ultramarines, recibe la orden de intervenir en la investigación efectuada en el planeta Pavonis, un mundo imperial azotado por disturbios internos y por piratas eldars renegados. Sin embargo, nada es lo que parece, y hay planes que ocultan otros planes. Uriel y sus aliados se verán obligados a comenzar una mortífera carrera contrarreloj para destruir a su siniestro y escurridizo enemigo... o deberán destruir por completo el planeta por el bien de la humanidad.