(James Swallow)Although the first three books of the Horus Heresy are billed as a trilogy, this book pretty much picks up from the last one, "Galaxy in Flames" - This book's main charecter is introduced in Galaxy in Flames, and most of the surviving heroes from that book appear in this one as well. I can see why they didn't make it a quadrology, as this book doesn't follow directly on - there's a lengthly introduction before the other charecters appear, and well over a hundred pages before the Eisenstein actually begins its Flight. In the hands of a less-talented author, this could drag terribly, but Swallow is one of my favorite authors, and this book is just as hard to put down as the first three in the series. The only unpleasent part is that Swallow is evocitive enough that when a champion of the plauge god appears, it's really disgusting. I wish I could say more, but like Galaxy in Flames, spoilers abound, so let's just skip right to the...
Grade: A
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