Battle for the Abyss: The Horus Heresy, Book 8

Great read

Cestus, Brynngar, Skraal, and Mhotep are terrific characters, and the Word Bearers contemptibly despicable villains. The space battles between the Furious Abyss and the Wrathful and its cohorts are extremely cool, as are Mhotep’s sorcerous powers and combat with the warp entity.

After hearing how bad this book was, I am pleasantly surprised to tell you how brilliant it is, great characters, exciting build ups, graphic violence, gripping story, and the story is a classic race against time, good guys vs evil villain kind of lay out, yes it seems generic, but it plays out very well. The only bad point I can muster, is how some scenes drag on, book space that could of been used to bolster the final chapters, which I felt were way to short in retrospect of the overall book, but its a tiny fault.I think all book are needed to be read, if you want the whole picture of the horus heresy, which in turn has grounded the 40k universe, to what it is today, and this book, for all its bad rep, is a pivotal inclusion to the series! In my opinion anyway.

Good book

Punto focale della storia nella saga