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**Anarchyinfluence**

Hey Dakka

I have recently been reading through lots of different BL books and i came across these two books (Lord of the night and brotherhood of the snake) and subsequently bought them off play.com.

The problem is they are out of print atm and i was wondering if people though they were a good read so that i can try and track down copies of them or are they just not worth the hassle?

Cheers in advance Dakka community

Anarchy

**Kanluwen**

Lord of the Night is crap.

**Honersstodnt**

http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Snake-Warhammer-40-000/dp/1844165477/ref=tmm_mmp_title_0

looks in stock to me

and this book as quite good.

**purplefood**

Brothers of the Snake is seriously good

**Kid_Kyoto**

Brothers of the Snake was gak. I gave my copy to goodwill. To quote a handsome reviewer on Amazon.com

Dan Abnett has, until now, been a fairly reliable producer of entertaining novels set in the Warhammer 40,000AD universe.

Unfortunately this collection of short stories about the 'Iron Snake' Space Marine chapter is sub-par.

Space Marines are notoriously hard to write about. They are fanatically loyal, invincible warriors without much in the way of personality. They're usually differentiated by their choice of weapons and their choice of warrior archetypes (Vikings, Romans etc).

These stories center around a group of Greco-Roman warriors called the Iron Snakes as they fight innumerable foes. Most of the stories read like a 13-year old's account of a video game. The Iron Snakes land, take one hoards of shadowy enemies and soon lose count of how many they have killed. In the very first story a single Marine, assisted by a clerk and a dog, slays an entire army. Sadly the clerk and the dog are much more interesting than the Marine. Later a Marine single-handedly kills a Godzilla-sized sea serpent with his trusty harpoon. Another story is filled with unintentional homoerotic humor as the 'Snakes' grapple with the 'Dark Thorns' in oil.

It is only in the last story that the Iron Snakes start to get personalities and depth. But it takes 300+ pages to get there.

Warhammer fans are better off seeking out Abnett's Eisenhorn, Ravenor or Gaunt's Ghosts books than spending time with the Brothers of the Snake.

While I do like having it IN CANON that the Dark Space Elfs were wiped out by one space marine, a clerk and a dog, I can't think of anything else to recommend this book. It's slightly better than Rynn's World but not much.

**SlaveToDorkness**

Brothers of the Snake was AWESOME!

Highly recommended.

**Kid_Kyoto**

What specifically did people find so 'awesome' about Snake Bros?

**Brother SRM**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
It's slightly better than Rynn's World but not much.

I liked Rynn's World v

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**Mattlov**

Brother SRM wrote:
Kid_Kyoto wrote:
It's slightly better than Rynn's World but not much.

I liked Rynn's World vv

I like Rynn's World only because Crimson Fists got to die. As a novel it was pretty bad.

Helsreach is easily 50 times better than Rynn's World. Maybe more, because Rynn's World was so bad.