"Iron Warriors Omnibus"

Iron Warriors: The Omnibus (Graham McNeill)

This omnibus collects one full-sized novel and a bunch of short stories about the chaos-aligned Iron Warriors. These are all by the same author, and all have the same main character, a guy named Honsou, and at times this feels more like the Honsou omnibus featuring the Iron Warriors. This isn't to say that the omnibus is bad, but it's not terribly thrilling either, and the second half of the book where it's all short stories can feel quite disjointed. One of the more interesting characters, a renegade Raven Guard, shows up for a few short stories, then is captured off-screen and never seen again, and Honsou's entire motivation for hating the Ultramarines is not present in this book, either taking place in other novels or not appearing in print at all. This isn't to say the book is bad, but it's entirely skippable; For the low price, you do get a lot of 40k violence, and that's just about the best thing I can say about this book.

Grade: C