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The Unremembered Empire (2014)

by Dan Abnett(Favorite Author)

4.2 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1849705739 (ISBN13: 9781849705738)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Games Workshop

series

The Horus Heresy

review 1: I'm finishing off my collection of "to read" Warhammer books, I've given up expecting a conclusion to the Horus Heresy any time soon and as such won't be buying any more.With that in mind though, this title is good. Forget about it progressing the Heresy to the long overdue (in my opinion) final battle, but as a standalone title set in the Heresy times its good. John Grammaticus makes an appearance and the story rolls along very nicely, full of action.The ending was a little cheap, a sort of hook to yet another title, but I left this book feeling it was time well spent.Other musing:The Horus Heresy has in my opinion been stretched to silly proportions; what should have happened was the story concluded within 4-5 books and then all these Heresy tales added as filler afte... morerwards. I feel that now I'm being taken for a fool with "crumbs" of a completion to this series being dropped in enough quantity only so that people buy another book. I believe there are about 30 books in the Heresy series and this to me is silly. Raymond E Feist stretched out his Magician series to an extent where it became a chore to continue with a tired story (IMO) and I've still not finished his series. The Heresy has me feeling the same way. Shame, because this book is very good - I'm just beginning to feel like a fool for continuing to buy into the series.
review 2: Such a good book!SPOLIERSDan Abnett delivers a very, very good, excellent even Heresy novel without any major, epic, main force battle. He does this by showing the entirety of the decision to form Imperium Secundus through the eyes of primarily Roboute Guilliman and to a lesser extent his subordinates. Finally, in this book, there is plenty of Primarch action. The Lion of the Dark Angels finally gets some serious page time, as far as I was concerned he'd been absent for far too long. His interactions with the Avenging Son were great and Dan made him far more interesting a figure than he already clearly was.I noticed reading alot of complaints when I went to write my own review for Vulkan Lives, most of these centered around Kyme's handling of Konrad Curze. I would think that they could not complain about Curze in this book. Curze takes a front and center role, and his campaign of terror on Macragge was so compelling that I literally read the last 200 pages of this novel in a single sitting. It was that damned good.Beyond naming Sanguinius regent of Imperium Secundus, showcasing an Alpha Legion deep insertion strike at Guilliman and going into the Cabal and their no longer hidden agenda (not to mention showing us that there is indeed Eldar resistance to the Cabal) this book could not offer any more, really. It seems that this book is opening the new chapter to a different arc of the Heresy storyline. We're not getting to Terra just yet, but if this book is any indication, I'm ok with that. It's gonna be a great ride. My only complaint with the book is not Dan's fault, it's simply been far, far, FAR too long since we've seen Horus. It is his Heresy after all. Other than that, solid, great, even excellent work. Highly recommended. less

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