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I've read a few of them- Blood Royale, Junktion, Salvation, Status Deadzone, and the first one with Mad Donna, Survival Instinct. Each writer certainly has their own view of what the various layers of the hive is like and I don't agree with some of them.

I'm going to go against the grain and state that the Kal Jericho book Blood Royale was a really terrible cliche from beginning to end. My understanding is that other stories with him as a character are better. Really, the writing is terrible and the excuse that it's meant to emulate hack pulp writing is no excuse at all.

Salvation starts off great, with an interesting description of a library in a noble sub-spire. As the novel progresses it gets more and more goofy. As I recall it seems to imply that noone ever goes back uphive past the wall, which is simply untrue. Also disappointing is the way the lower hive houses are described- they're almost overlooked entirely, suggesting that underhive gangs are the ones making contract with the noble houses. It's been a while since I read it so I might be off.

Junktion is great. I think it has the best story and description of what it is really like culturally, economically, and visually downhive. I'd recommend that one highly. I noticed that reviews of it on Amazon aren't that great compared to other Necro books, but quite frankly I believe it requires more thinking and has a more complicated interwoven plot than the others. I think you'll enjoy it based off your writings here on Dakka.

I enjoyed Survival Instinct as well, for its overview of hive life. Status Deadzone in an anthology of stories ranging from headshakingly bad to very interesting.

Kid, send me PM and I'll post some of them along to you if you'd like.