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A review by warlockmythic
Battle for the Abyss by Ben Counter
2.0
Quite sucky, but still mildly entertaining. Here's why, in a nutshell:
- The premise sucks. Like, it's dumb silly. We're Word Bearers we build big ship to destroy Macragge hurr durr... So the first half of the book is just budget Battlefleet Gothic Armada with some boring ship-to-ship combat descriptions.
- The character names suck. Skraal, Zadkiel, Reskiel, really? It's so uninspired you might as well throw in Zahariel and Nemiel from Descent of Angels... Ughh.
- Bad guyz wanna make Macragge go boom. That's all... Coming from Lorgar's legion, I would have expected something more nuanced and intricate.
But...
- The second half of the book is quite fun. Blood and gore, vivid description of the warp.
- Poor Cestus goes through hell and back. And that's cool.
- Word Bearers are grimdark.
Overall, the book sits in-between Flight of the Eisenstein and Descent of Angel on my sucky factor.
- The premise sucks. Like, it's dumb silly. We're Word Bearers we build big ship to destroy Macragge hurr durr... So the first half of the book is just budget Battlefleet Gothic Armada with some boring ship-to-ship combat descriptions.
- The character names suck. Skraal, Zadkiel, Reskiel, really? It's so uninspired you might as well throw in Zahariel and Nemiel from Descent of Angels... Ughh.
- Bad guyz wanna make Macragge go boom. That's all... Coming from Lorgar's legion, I would have expected something more nuanced and intricate.
But...
- The second half of the book is quite fun. Blood and gore, vivid description of the warp.
- Poor Cestus goes through hell and back. And that's cool.
- Word Bearers are grimdark.
Overall, the book sits in-between Flight of the Eisenstein and Descent of Angel on my sucky factor.