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ADB all but confirmed it was Abnett writing the last book. I’d be surprised if it’s anybody else.
Personally I’d love Aaron to do it as he’s probably my favourite contributor followed by McNeill. I’m also in the minority in that I absolutely can’t stand Abnett’s writing but I’ve resigned myself to the fact he will be pencilling that final battle.

I’m glad Ben Counter isn’t involved. His stories barring Daemon World are all between poor and dire.

Souljet wrote:
ADB all but confirmed it was Abnett writing the last book. I’d be surprised if it’s anybody else.
Personally I’d love Aaron to do it as he’s probably my favourite contributor followed by McNeill. I’m also in the minority in that I absolutely can’t stand Abnett’s writing but I’ve resigned myself to the fact he will be pencilling that final battle.

This is why I am so happy that there are a large number of writers for the Heresy books, as different authors appeal to different people. Personally, I love Abnett and loathe McNeil. I am over the moon that Abnett gets to do the last book but ADB would be my #2 choice.

Same here - psyched for Dan to finish it all up, but would certainly be happy if it was ADB!

phillv85 wrote:
I’m glad Ben Counter isn’t involved. His stories barring Daemon World are all between poor and dire.

Personally I can't stand Gav's writing.

There are six authors confirmed for SoT, and eight books, that means somebody is either writing three books or two people are doing two each (which I think is more likely to happen). I'm more bothered about who is getting two books at present as I don't want it to be Gav.

I'm sure its been confirmed either on Warhammer Community or at a BL Seminar that Dan is writing the last SoT book?

Quite liking John French's books, can't quite put my finger on why but the writing style works well for me.

ADB would probably be my choice for the final book though. Abnett is of course consistently excellent but ADB seems to have the edge, IMHO.

I like ADB and McNeil best, I think Abnett is very overrated and I do not think any are anywhere near poor or dire, just not to my taste.

 Looky Likey wrote:
Personally I can't stand Gav's writing.

There are six authors confirmed for SoT, and eight books, that means somebody is either writing three books or two people are doing two each (which I think is more likely to happen). I'm more bothered about who is getting two books at present as I don't want it to be Gav.

I'm sure its been confirmed either on Warhammer Community or at a BL Seminar that Dan is writing the last SoT book?

Have you read any of his Eldar books, Lorgar, or tried the new audio Our Martyred Lady? I think these are some of the best to come from Black Library, I love Gavs writing but I get the dark angles stuff isnt for everyone.

I think Gav works best when he has a free reign his world building is superb. I would love to see him do two books. But all the authors involved are top quality

I've found everything I've read of Gav's for 30K/40K genuinely painful to read, though I've not read the Eldar stuff. The Dwarf stuff he wrote for WHFB was quite good though, so it's not like he's an inherently bad writer, just variable enough that I won't buy his books until I've seen them reviewed by someone I trust to mostly share my point of view, and that I would always prefer subject matter I care about were handled by someone else.

I've read his Eldar and Lorgar, the former was risable the latter decent.

My SoT turned up today, fab looking limited edition.

Looks awesome

I’m 3/4 of the way through it, loving every minute.

I got "Cadian Honour" today. Loving it!

Just finished Solar War now. A lot still to sink in, but I loved this book. Just an excellent start to the siege. I found it quite an emotional read, knowing that this is the beginning of the end of a series I’ve been heavily invested in for the last 9 or 10 years of my life, especially with how much it ties back to the beginning. I feel somewhat drained, but in the best way.

Anyone is better than Guy Haley who brought his dumpster fire Dark Imperium fluff into the HH with wolfsbane. I might take G.S Goto over his writing.

 Kirasu wrote:
I might take C.S Goto over his writing.

Time heals all wounds, as evidenced by this statement.

 nels1031 wrote:

 Kirasu wrote:
I might take C.S Goto over his writing.

Time heals all wounds, as evidenced by this statement.

You’re right, I haven’t read G.S Goto in over a decade but the trauma caused by Guy Haley’s writing is still very fresh.

 nels1031 wrote:

 Kirasu wrote:
I might take C.S Goto over his writing.

Time heals all wounds, as evidenced by this statement.

Even Astartes multilaser burns?

Yes, even that.

I'm always impressed and grateful for humanity's willingness to forgive.

Apparently, one day we'll forgive G. Haley too!

Scourge of Fate (Robbie Macniven) is up for order on BL’s site, for those of us who like AoS.

Highly recommend, its like a Bretonnian Questing Knight novel, except the Bretonnian is an aspiring Varanguard, the quest is to kill a hero of Order, and the questgiver looks like a monster out of a Guillermo del Toro movie.

Quite a bit of world building for the Chaos side of the Mortal Realms. Made me want to start a Varanguard focused army, but their rules are less than adequate for what they are supposed to be.

Also, for the Guy Haley hate above, dude wrote Skarsnik, which is one of my top 3 favorite BL fantasy novels. Can’t speak to his 40K/30K writing as it hasn’t been my cup of tea lately, but I’ll defend the guy on the strength of Skarsnik alone.

Baffled by the email I got today about the Horror novels.

It was titled 'Warhammer Horror is here'

Yet, clicking on the link inexplicably took me to the UK amazon site (which isn't particularly useful), and on coming back to the US site, i found out that, in fact, horror isn't here at all. The books are another week off.

Good job. :/

 Kirasu wrote:
Anyone is better than Guy Haley who brought his dumpster fire Dark Imperium fluff into the HH with wolfsbane. I might take G.S Goto over his writing.

I’m not sure that’s very fair. Cawl was in Wolfsbane, but he was a very low level tech priest and there were no other ties to Dark Imperium except that he was in it. And we knew he was around during the Heresy.

 Kanluwen wrote:
I got "Cadian Honour" today. Loving it!

Hopefully it’s as good as the first one. I thought it was superb. One of the best guard books out there.

 Looky Likey wrote:
I've read his Eldar and Lorgar, the former was risable the latter decent.

My SoT turned up today, fab looking limited edition.

How does it read if you haven't read all the Horus Heresy novels?
And if you haven't read any novels is it a good starting point?
If not which novels are essential for this book?

I have read the first 10 books and some other stuff but I want to jump back directly at the siege of terra but I don't know if it's a good idea...

Thanks!

 Knockagh wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
I got "Cadian Honour" today. Loving it!

Hopefully it’s as good as the first one. I thought it was superb. One of the best guard books out there.

So far, yeah. Highly recommend having read "The Battle for Markgraaf Hive"(a digital short) though as it's referenced quite a bit with regards to Minka.

Has there been any news on if Gav will be doing another Phoenix Lord book? I was really hoping for a Karrandras book and perhaps a partner book released about Arhra told from his perspective or something.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Kirasu wrote:
Anyone is better than Guy Haley who brought his dumpster fire Dark Imperium fluff into the HH with wolfsbane. I might take G.S Goto over his writing.

I’m not sure that’s very fair. Cawl was in Wolfsbane, but he was a very low level tech priest and there were no other ties to Dark Imperium except that he was in it. And we knew he was around during the Heresy.

yeah, To my way of thinking he's just having a kneejerk reaction to any mention of the Primaris Marines, without approuching it with an honest mind, the fact is, one of the biggest issues with Cawl that people had was "WHERE WAS HE DURING THE HERESY?" now we know. That's good world building.


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on another note did BL remove their "coming soon" bit from their website? that's horriable!

BrianDavion wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Kirasu wrote:
Anyone is better than Guy Haley who brought his dumpster fire Dark Imperium fluff into the HH with wolfsbane. I might take G.S Goto over his writing.

I’m not sure that’s very fair. Cawl was in Wolfsbane, but he was a very low level tech priest and there were no other ties to Dark Imperium except that he was in it. And we knew he was around during the Heresy.

yeah, To my way of thinking he's just having a kneejerk reaction to any mention of the Primaris Marines, without approuching it with an honest mind, the fact is, one of the biggest issues with Cawl that people had was "WHERE WAS HE DURING THE HERESY?" now we know. That's good world building.


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on another note did BL remove their "coming soon" bit from their website? that's horriable!

Its terrible world building, good world building was how they kept dropping hints about the C'Tan in 3rd for YEARS before we actually even saw one, then they ended up in the necron codex, so Cawl being mentioned and little hints here and there about a rogue tech magos would have been a much much better than retroactively throwing him into a HH novel, that being said I quite liked him in that book and am happier they did introduce him into the HH series, it just could have been handled better

BrianDavion wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Kirasu wrote:
Anyone is better than Guy Haley who brought his dumpster fire Dark Imperium fluff into the HH with wolfsbane. I might take G.S Goto over his writing.

I’m not sure that’s very fair. Cawl was in Wolfsbane, but he was a very low level tech priest and there were no other ties to Dark Imperium except that he was in it. And we knew he was around during the Heresy.

yeah, To my way of thinking he's just having a kneejerk reaction to any mention of the Primaris Marines, without approuching it with an honest mind, the fact is, one of the biggest issues with Cawl that people had was "WHERE WAS HE DURING THE HERESY?" now we know. That's good world building.


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on another note did BL remove their "coming soon" bit from their website? that's horriable!

I honestly don't think I've ever seen one person express that as being a "big issue" with Cawl. People took plenty of issue with him as a character and as a plot device, but "I wonder where he was *before* the point in time GW crudely shoehorned an excuse for putting a totally new kind of Space Marine into the setting without technically having them be brand new - knowing that bit of minutiae would completely redeem the character..." was not one of them IME.