Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Novels/@comment-5.65.81.205-20131006085739/@comment-6078851-20150321124149

i like anthologies because of the diversity of stories and themes (the last church is a particularly good anthology story), but you are pretty certain to get a crap one or two amongst them. i have to agree about the tediousness of astartes violence - it's like wrestling violence, once you been exposed to a few hours of it the rest of it is pretty much the same.

i didn't know that the scars were close to betrayal, but the dark angels had a huge portion of their legion fall on the betrayal side, and i have to disagree about fallen angels and luther: descent of angels wasn't great but i like the point of view of a primitive culture being brought into the fold of an immensely more advanced culture, but i didn't have any problem with fallen angels, and almost from his introduction i totally felt that luther was a self-serving, sly, inately untrustworthy character and i didn't like luther from the very start.

again it comes back to different tastes for different folks: mechanicum, like nemesis, seems to be another that's widely disliked but i'm looking forward to reading mechanicum.