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A review by eltcic
Hellsreach by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
4.0
Read it because I was simping for a nerdy boy.
A bit hard to get into (Grimaldus said "I will die in this world" and I was about to put the book down because without knowing that there's more than one world in this universe, it sounded like the beginning of an insufferable anime monologue - not the writer's fault of course, it was stupid of me to think I could just get into it blind), but after watching a couple of YT videos explaining the general lore, I really enjoyed it! I'd say it took me about 40 pages to really get into it, about a tenth of the book, mainly because the POV was switching a bit too often to allow me to immerse myself in the story. But with the power of simping by my side I made it through that awkward initial stage and had the time of my life.
I was annoyed at some unrealistic interactions between humans, and at how the author seems to favor the more difficult words over the right words - sometimes it feels like he wrote a first draft, grabbed a thesaurus and swapped some words with more refined synonyms, with little concern over whether the replacements were *exact* synonyms.
I did love how he writes Space Marines though, and the interactions between them and humans. I'm not used to reading POVs from characters with their temperaments, it was so interesting! I loved every dialogue between a Marine and another, and wished the interactions between Grimaldus and Andrej, and Grimaldus and the Crone would never end. Overall would reccomend to a friend after tying them to a chair A Clockwork Orange style and subjecting them to a two hours lecture on why they should like the book
A bit hard to get into (Grimaldus said "I will die in this world" and I was about to put the book down because without knowing that there's more than one world in this universe, it sounded like the beginning of an insufferable anime monologue - not the writer's fault of course, it was stupid of me to think I could just get into it blind), but after watching a couple of YT videos explaining the general lore, I really enjoyed it! I'd say it took me about 40 pages to really get into it, about a tenth of the book, mainly because the POV was switching a bit too often to allow me to immerse myself in the story. But with the power of simping by my side I made it through that awkward initial stage and had the time of my life.
I was annoyed at some unrealistic interactions between humans, and at how the author seems to favor the more difficult words over the right words - sometimes it feels like he wrote a first draft, grabbed a thesaurus and swapped some words with more refined synonyms, with little concern over whether the replacements were *exact* synonyms.
I did love how he writes Space Marines though, and the interactions between them and humans. I'm not used to reading POVs from characters with their temperaments, it was so interesting! I loved every dialogue between a Marine and another, and wished the interactions between Grimaldus and Andrej, and Grimaldus and the Crone would never end. Overall would reccomend to a friend after tying them to a chair A Clockwork Orange style and subjecting them to a two hours lecture on why they should like the book