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Soul Hunter (2010)

by Aaron Dembski-Bowden(Favorite Author)

4.36 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1844168115 (ISBN13: 9781844168118)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Games Workshop

series

Night Lords

review 1: Reading this book was a weird experience. On one hand I've read The First Heretic and The Betrayer, both of which I consider to be superior works; on the other, Soul Hunter didn't turn out to be quite as bad as I thought. It has a slow and rather generic start and I'd almost say its cast of characters are formulaic insofar as 40K novels go (the generally disliked space marine who had a special bond with his primarch, the female human that finds her place), but it slowly redeems itself as the story progresses. I expected it to be a lot edgier than it was, but in the end, much like Dembski-Bowden's other novels, it shows he has a great understanding for how familial relationships work and that's really what I always find most enjoyable about his writing. The relationships be... moretween the characters never feel forced or superficial, and they - as well as their mutual interactions - always feel like onions waiting to be peeled layer by layer. At the same time, the prose wasn't outstanding, nor do any of the moments contained within truly stand out - like I said, I thought it was pretty generic in some ways. But I enjoyed it, and I'm definitely going to read the rest of the trilogy.
review 2: Of all the Marine books out there, there is very little literature wise in the way of the Night Lords except for short stories and the like. We had Lord of the Night and then along came Soul Hunter.For any fans of the Night Lords these are a must read, not only does it immerse you into the action early on but you get an affinity with First Claw and their own private thoughts and battles. You get the impression that they might not like each other all that much but when it comes to working together they work pretty well as a team even if one of them is slipping into the madness that is the Blood God. You also get an insight into life for the humans who live in the vessels underworld and how they live day to day as slaves for their Night Lord masters. I was surprised to see that for humans they are treated quite well by their masters and not, perhaps as one would expect for a traitor Legion to be using them as sacrifice or cannon fodder.Aaron Dembski-Bowden has taken the Night Lords and brought them into line with the books on the Ultramarines, Blood Angels and others, they may be damned but they have burst into the 40K world and announced their intention....they have come for you! if the rest of the trilogy is as good as this then the Night Lords are here to stay....Dominous Nox less

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