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While tanks are obviously a hugely important (and entertaining) part of the Imperial Guard, a book solely about a tank is perhaps not the most exciting prospect. Thankfully then, Guy Haley's Baneblade – despite the title – is very much a human story. Yes, in true 40k style we get to see a bit of the tank's personality in terms of its machine spirit, but this is really a story about two men's different viewpoints on and relationships with the tank.
Read the rest of the review at http://trackofwords.wordpress.com/2014/08/03/baneblade-guy-haley/
Read the rest of the review at http://trackofwords.wordpress.com/2014/08/03/baneblade-guy-haley/
I really enjoyed this book, mostly due to it being written from a regular human soldiers perspective, not a genetically engineered super soldiers. The play between the characters was great, a new crew member trying to fit in with a group that has already gelled. He is an outsider running from a past, straight into a grand army where he is little more than a number on a logistics report, where he is certain to die. Or at the very least be changed forever.
This is a universe where the only person that cares if you live or die, is you.
It may be based on a game but it is well written.
Recommend to any that enjoys an ‘against all odds’ story.
This is a universe where the only person that cares if you live or die, is you.
It may be based on a game but it is well written.
Recommend to any that enjoys an ‘against all odds’ story.
For a novel about a three-story tank battling its way across a grimdark future this was much better than it needed to be.