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Hi guys! I was wondering what 40k books the dakka community was reading right now. Any type of book counts from codexes to proper novels or series.

I finished codex Dark Eldar a while ago for the first time in a couple of months and also finished the word bearers omnibus. I'm currently on book 2 of the salamanders series. I would recommend the word bearers omnibus to anyone, one of the best books I've ever read.

Mark of Calth, and I'm halfway through the path of the Eldar omnibus

 Dantioch wrote:
Mark of Calth, and I'm halfway through the path of the Eldar omnibus

I was looking at the path of the eldar omnibus. Is it any good?

Just finished Horus rising, great book

Priests of Mars and the inquisition codex.

Both of the Blood Angels Omnibuses, BA, Nilla and Angels dexes and the first Ultramarine Omnibus. Would highly recommend it, an excellent story.

I got about 120 pages into Siege of Castellax. It's the single worst Black Library book I've ever attempted to read, and probably the worst book I've read in the past 7 years. I wouldn't will it on anybody. It's horribly written, rife with sentence fragments, run on sentences, and hackneyed prose, has characters who don't act how they're supposed to (Iron Warriors who don't know their own defense networks, what up) and it's full of the absolute worst Cobra Commander-level villainy I've ever read in a book. After Aaron Dembski-Bowden got the Night Lords so right with hist trilogy, I can't abide reading about villains this boring and stupid.

I just got done with Betrayer, The Emperor's Gift, The First Heretic, (Aaron Dembski-Bowden) and Pariah (Dan Abnett). All great stuff.

 Brother SRM wrote:
I got about 120 pages into Siege of Castellax. It's the single worst Black Library book I've ever attempted to read, and probably the worst book I've read in the past 7 years. I wouldn't will it on anybody. It's horribly written, rife with sentence fragments, run on sentences, and hackneyed prose, has characters who don't act how they're supposed to (Iron Warriors who don't know their own defense networks, what up) and it's full of the absolute worst Cobra Commander-level villainy I've ever read in a book. After Aaron Dembski-Bowden got the Night Lords so right with hist trilogy, I can't abide reading about villains this boring and stupid.

I read a bit of it in a store once. This orkmoticon should be sufficient to show my feelings:

I don't know how bad it is, but I find it hard to believe it could be worse than the Soul Drinkers books.

Finished 'The First Heretic', it was an awesome read.

Almost finished 'The Outcast Dead', I think I'm enjoying this one even more.

I've read Scars (Chris Wraight) and I'm currently more than halfway through Deathwatch (Steve Parker) in January, around and just before Christmas time I read Gunheads (Parker) and Cadian Blood (Dembski-Bowden), as far as I can remember.

The first half of Scars was great, the latter half was a bit iffy up until the bit towards the end when it all heated up again. Honestly, nothing really interesting happens other than the odd "oh, hm" moment in the middle-latter bit and that was kinda disappointing. Overall its about an 8/10.

Gunheads is a very good book, the beginning can be a bit of a slog but when it warms up and starts doing what it does best, which is combat and battles, I can't put it down. Overall I'd give it about a 7.5~8/10.

Cadian Blood, like all ADB writes is a great page turner but has a few flaws and clichés here and there, but otherwise is a solid read and great at building tension. About a 7/10.

Deathwatch's Space Marine bits have been somewhere in the boundary between iffy and interesting in the first half, actually I found I was turning pages to continue reading about the Inquisition Agents.

The only thing that has really bothered me: (spoiler'd for obvious reasons)

I've been wanting to get excited about the HH series again but I found Fear to Tread just plain awful. Angel Exterminus was good but then I got to the end and realized most of the characters where strait from McNeil's other Iron Warrior books and suddenly all these new characters I had grown to like and was interested in finding out what happens too where just in the way because they need to live for his other series. I listened to the audiobook for betrayer but haven't bothered picking it up.

I picked up Guants Ghosts a couple of weeks back though and I'm enjoying a lengthy reread of that. There are some great books in there.

Finished word bearers omnibus little while ago, now on Soul Drinkers Omnibus 1

 Brother SRM wrote:
I got about 120 pages into Siege of Castellax. It's the single worst Black Library book I've ever attempted to read, and probably the worst book I've read in the past 7 years. I wouldn't will it on anybody. It's horribly written, rife with sentence fragments, run on sentences, and hackneyed prose, has characters who don't act how they're supposed to (Iron Warriors who don't know their own defense networks, what up) and it's full of the absolute worst Cobra Commander-level villainy I've ever read in a book. After Aaron Dembski-Bowden got the Night Lords so right with hist trilogy, I can't abide reading about villains this boring and stupid.

I see you haven't read Battle for the Abyss then. By the by, the new Lysander books and Wrath of Iron, also pretty bad. I regret wasting time on them.


I just read the trio of linked White Scars, Iron Hands, and Salamanders novellas. I found them interesting, though not amazing.

Finished Ravenor A couple months ago, and loved it even more than Eisenhorn.