Descent of Angels: Loyalty and Honour: Pt. 6 (Horus Heresy)

This is easily the best Herecy book in a while and a large step up from Fulgram. The other reveiws are right the ending seems lacking, hopfuly this book will have a sequal as there are far more unanswered questions then anything else

Stagnant (0/0 people found this helpful)

As an avid book reader and a great fan of the HH series, I bought this book fully expecting to have it finished within a couple of days. Instead it took me a staggering 3 months to finish. The reason being it was an utter bore from the start to close to the end. The story never really took off, with far too much hinted at and nothing really happening. The only time I felt truly gripped by the book was in the 4th and final part, which ended so abruptly that it left me annoyed with myself for trudging through the rest of the rather dull story.

If your a fan of the HH id read this book simply to complete the series, but as it doesnt add anything to the other books and doesnt really expand on anything new that fluff readers wont already know about the dark angels, I would say this is a totally missable book

Interesting approach (0/0 people found this helpful)

Breaks from form in that it has nothing really to do with the events portrayed in the previous books; however a refreshing take on things. The book is, i would assume, a scene-setter for a plot line that is yet to be explored as certain fissures have emerged that would clearly have implications for the events of the heresy. It must be said though that the previous instalment, Fulgrum - for me - was far too drawn out and at times tedious, so this seemed a welcome return to the formula of enigmatic good guys defeating inner-demons and battling evil beasts or heritics with the odds stacked against them and life and death decisions taken every instant. Furthermore, i enjoyed the camaraderie that is created between the warriors, which seemed lacking in Fulgrum.
All in all a worthy addition to the series.

Not really Heresy (0/0 people found this helpful)

Having read the other Heresy books, DoA is completely different. I read the brief Amazon `Synopsis' (above), it states at the end "When news of Horus' treachery reaches Caliban, the loyalties of this proud and mysterious Legion are tested to the limit, with tragic consequences." yet The Horus Heresy is not mentioned at all and news doesn't reach Caliban anyway!

Maybe the ending will have more meaning in one of the future novels, well I hope so, as the series seems to be breaking the thread a bit!

Still, this was an enjoyable book, but, like the other reviewers here, I was expecting a bit more of the Heresy story to materialise!

Poor (1/1 people found this helpful)

Compared to the rest of the HH series this is a vey disapointing effort. It had great potential and was interesting in that it showed an earlier and slightly different age of the Imperium but ultimately the book disapointed.
A strong story was built throughout the book with lots of intriguing plot lines worth following but the book ends abruptly with no real conclusion. Not a single one of the plotlines is clearly followed to any sort of outcome, never mind a decent one and the actual ending of the book has no reason or explanation to it, it just ends (I was tempted to check if some pages had been ripped out of my copy it was so poor and abrupt.)
However the most disapointing aspect of this book from a personal point of view is the poor character development. The series as a whole has introduced some brilliant characters, some you love some you hate, and all of them have been fully developed with interesting stories, sadly in this book it is not the case. Especially with Luther who you would expect to be the main protaginist. It states in the prolouge (written as if one of the Dark Angels is telling the story) that the truth about Luther would be revealed and that he didnt turn on the Lion because of jealousy as previously expected. Now i dont wish to spoil the ending for anyone here but the story, after making this bold statement, ignores Luther in 99% of the text and the remaining 1% goes on to prove that he will turn against the Lion because he is jealous of him (luther himself even says this.)
Im very sad that this book was so poor, I have always found the Dark Angels to be the most interesting chapters in the WH40K universe and its a pity the book has been spoilt. Maybe a follow up (written by a good author) could salvage the story and tie up the loose ends but ultimately I think this book is best consigned to the eye of terror and forgotten from the history of the imperium forever...

Descent of Angels: Loyalty and Honour: Pt. 6 (Horus Heresy)

Mitchel Scanlon

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