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A review by zjames
Hereticus by Dan Abnett
3.0
So far my experience with the Warhammer 40k books has been that they're thoroughly, extremely entertaining while at the same time lacking in characters or a story that jumps out at you.
While I enjoyed knowing the characters of the Eisenhorn series, when many of them meet their inevitable demises I was thinking "Who was that again? I think I remember them." The problem being that three books in and the only character that has stayed in my mind is Eisenhorn and maybe the guy that says "Most perturbatory," all the time, and I can't even remember his name. I liked the characters of this series, but unfortunately because Eisenhorn is so cool and the obvious focus, the others tend to blend together and I feel like the reader should feel more when something happens to them.
The plot is the same way. I can tell you this is an exciting book that I was completely entertained by, but it's just like an action B-movie you'd watch on Netflix: thrilling, but fails to move you in any meaningful way, and starts to fade shortly after you've experienced it. I can't really even tell you what all went on in this book, other than that there was a lot of shooting, fighting, accusing of heresy, and dabbling in said heresy, and even more shooting.
That said, hey it's a Warhammer 40k book. It's fun as hell. What more do you expect? These are miles ahead of every Magic the Gathering book...Those were...ugh.
While I enjoyed knowing the characters of the Eisenhorn series, when many of them meet their inevitable demises I was thinking "Who was that again? I think I remember them." The problem being that three books in and the only character that has stayed in my mind is Eisenhorn and maybe the guy that says "Most perturbatory," all the time, and I can't even remember his name. I liked the characters of this series, but unfortunately because Eisenhorn is so cool and the obvious focus, the others tend to blend together and I feel like the reader should feel more when something happens to them.
The plot is the same way. I can tell you this is an exciting book that I was completely entertained by, but it's just like an action B-movie you'd watch on Netflix: thrilling, but fails to move you in any meaningful way, and starts to fade shortly after you've experienced it. I can't really even tell you what all went on in this book, other than that there was a lot of shooting, fighting, accusing of heresy, and dabbling in said heresy, and even more shooting.
That said, hey it's a Warhammer 40k book. It's fun as hell. What more do you expect? These are miles ahead of every Magic the Gathering book...Those were...ugh.