Dan: For me, the highlights have been the process itself. The privilege of being part of such a long-term commitment, forming such a close creative bond with the whole Heresy team, and building out the huge scope of the universe. Writers don’t often get the chance to work together for such a long time on such a big, long-form endeavour. There have been so many great moments, so many great novels, and everyone – both the characters and the authors – have had their moment to shine. Book achieved what it promised to be - a true epic, story about what definitely qualifies as the bleakest moment in a bleak SF setting. I did not expect story will span three books but OK :) I have to say that I did not find any of the chapters to play filler role - even short chapters have a very strong effect. Volume two of The End and the Death is coming later this year, but as we revealed last week in an interview with Dan Abnett , there is a third volume coming – and today we can unveil the cover.

In Warhawk , Jaghatai Khan pulled off one last outlandish gambit to buy time for the beleaguered defenders by riding to face his brother Mortarion in deadly combat. And in Echoes of Eternity , Sanguinius will face off against the daemon general Ka’bandha and the Warmaster’s horde in one desperate last stand. Book is very readable, very cinematic, main story chapters with lots of [what author calls] fragments sections in between. In these fragments sections we are given scenes from the battlefields, civilians escaping the city battlefields, we see actions of Abaddon and his troops, Horus' POV (which is hilarious) and finally Neverborne's thoughts and reactions on the Horus' progress. Chapters are relatively short so pacing is pretty fast. All in all very well organized, with only downside being author's use of some more exotic dictionary that made me scratch my head for a while. Aaron Dembski-Bowden stated; “All I did was try to re-write one half of a conversation I thought was dumb, once again Abnett has gone far and beyond what the rest of us can imagine.“Battle between Sanguinius and Horus is not just physical battle but psychological - what can be more moral breaking but destruction of one Primarch that is personification of deities of past. Sheer brutality of the duel is breathtaking. And everything seems to be done with goal of goading the Emperor to cross the threshold and cause more harm than good. What would however definetly improve the book is bit of shuffling and cutting of scenes, putting them to the volume II, putting some of them closer. Moving the ending.

It starts great and gets faster and better untile second half of third part. Then it hits breaks. Story slows down as if Dan realized that there must be seconde book. Horus kills the Emperor permanently, realises his mistake, frees himself from Chaos’ influence, purges the immaterium, retains the power of Chaos, effectively becoming an Emperor-equivalent being. The loyal primarchs expel him from the empire, but Horus aids humanity from the shadows.Maybe this book would benefit from being split even more. Two large books and one smaller (Knight of grey, Fury of Magnus style book) to relief main story a bit. Abnett continues to do a great job working towards the inevitable conclusion. While it seems to go a bit overboard in the early third of the book detailing how the warp is spiraling out of control and corrupting realspace, it is not without reason, and really helps to add a surprising sense of hope to some of the narrative, however misplaced that might be. Of course that is not without the tragedy of the confrontation this entry is framed around, perhaps the most significant lore point in regards to the Blood Angels Legion and lore. The chaos of the siege doesn’t help the second half of the book. Everyone’s had an approach to the immense scale of these final hours in one way or another – the Solar War added literal space to numbers, Saturnine slammed through hundreds of overlapping viewpoints at a rapid pace, Echoes nailed the conflict to a single, burning point. The End and the Death attempts to do it all, and for all of the skill on show in writing different voices and perspectives, it’s where the novel creaks and breaks. We’re told rather than shown the preposterous scale of the conflict. It feels less apocalyptic and terrifying than the masterwork that was Saturnine because it loses the key focal point to show the desperation we’re told is present. Chapters of “Fragments” – single paragraph or even single line vignettes – are supposed to show us the full extent of the siege, and sometimes do this to great effect. Others, unfortunately read like some of the early attempts to establish the Stormcast Eternals as viable protagonists, all nounverbers at the placenames against the adjective verbnouners. There’s just too much context. We know the world is on fire, but seeing every single flame detracts from the inferno. The final battle aboard the Warmaster’s flagship has begun in earnest, as Sanguinius defies his fate and the Dark Gods in an attempt to end his brother’s life, and the war along with it. You seem to be under the impression that the Horus Heresy series of books is going to end in a way that radically changes the setting.

Malcador begs the Emperor to talk to him multiple times but gets no response, the Throne is overwhelming the Emperor with pain but he is doing a thousand things at once on the throne, inspiring individual soldiers on Terra, soothing civilians, directing the webway. Finally he reaches out to heal the Khan's soul and Malcador knows he has returned. The Khan is still injured and will take months potentially to heal but the Emperor is conscious again Book have big problem with phasing. I need to elaborate a bit. Book have 4 large parts made of chapters. The End and the Death is the eighth and final novel of the Siege of Terra series. [1] It will be split into an unknown number of parts. [2] Now, at the final hour of the final day, the Emperor rises. With him come his Angel, his Praetorian, and his Captain, all determined to enact terrible vengeance. Yet the hope is slim, for the Warmaster sees all and knows all, and the ultimate victory of Chaos is at hand. What more can W40K ask for - heroes greater than life, epic battles, small bits about personal life of Emperor and other secretive characters, plus portrayal how knowledge about the universe and Chaos was known to humanity for a long time (library scenes, pictures with thrones and Babel Tower, and then the hidden vault - I truly enjoyed this).At this point it goes from scenes of desperate last stand into scenes of discussions about who is above who in Imperial hierarchy, from Vengeful Spirit to library . The person on the Throne is defenseless so a single Daemon can destroy the throne and give Horus his victory The Emperor remains a perpetual with strong but not god-like psychic abilities (similar to the regent). He loses the power He stole from Chaos.

I Horus Rising • II False Gods • III Galaxy in Flames • IV The Flight of the Eisenstein • V Fulgrim • VI Descent of Angels • VII Legion • VIII Battle for the Abyss • IX Mechanicum • X Tales of Heresy • XI Fallen Angels • XII A Thousand Sons • XIII Nemesis • XIV The First Heretic • XV Prospero Burns • XVI Age of Darkness • XVII The Outcast Dead • XVIII Deliverance Lost • XIX Know No Fear • XX The Primarchs • XXI Fear to Tread • XXII Shadows of Treachery • XXIII Angel Exterminatus • XXIV Betrayer • XXV Mark of Calth • XXVI Vulkan Lives • XXVII The Unremembered Empire • XXVIII Scars • XXIX Vengeful Spirit • XXX The Damnation of Pythos • XXXI Legacies of Betrayal • XXXII Deathfire • XXXIII War Without End • XXXIV Pharos • XXXV Eye of Terra • XXXVI The Path of Heaven • XXXVII The Silent War • XXXVIII Angels of Caliban • XXXIX Praetorian of Dorn • XL Corax • XLI The Master of Mankind • XLII Garro • XLIII Shattered Legions • XLIV The Crimson King • XLV Tallarn • XLVI Ruinstorm • XLVII Old Earth • XLVIII The Burden of Loyalty • XLIX Wolfsbane • L Born of Flame • LI Slaves to Darkness • LII Heralds of the Siege • LIII Titandeath • LIV The Buried DaggerDan: Loken, obviously. No, Abaddon. And John Grammaticus. Also Sanguinius, and the Khan, and… actually, the more I write (and read), the more favourites I discover. I now love characters and Legions that held little interest for me to begin with. I wasn’t a particular fan, for example, of Space Wolves or Ultramarines at the start. Now I adore both. The more you engage with the material, the more compelling things become. Can see book one being the lead up with the final war council, malcador going on the throne, perpetuals getting into positions, custodians and flo doing something etc and it ending with the teleport up/relief fleet breaking into the system. You know with all of this in the play, role of formations like Alpha Legion becomes more and more interesting. I know this is way of thought that has nothing to do with the actual universe (just my mere projections) but I have a feeling that nothing in Emperor's plans is done by accident. For every force there seems to be a counter-force. And reading about Custodes in this book, Valdor's comment in Alpharius (another great book) comes to mind - when he (Valdor) says that while all other Primarchs are generals and soldiers in their own way, he (Valdor) is not sure what is Alpharius supposed to be. He definitely sensed danger, a force with shady objectives that can endanger the Custodes or people and organizations they protect.