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  • Fantastic!5

    Jonny Andmyr Buy it.
    Read it
    Recomend it.
    Best 11 euros I´ve ever spent!

    Enough said.... by Jonny Andmyr

  • A Great Read5

    Duncan Norris I actually originally read "Xenos", the first novel in the trilogy, as a stand alone novel I picked up in a secondhand bookshop and was so impressed I coughed up the money for the whole omnibus edition straight after. I was not (and indeed am not) a Warhammer 40K player and had only a rudimentary understanding of the universe it in habits. I doesn't matter reading Eisenhorn. It is just a great story that unfolds it's characters and information without any expectation of prior knowledge, unlike some other 40K I have subsequently read.
    The story itself is reasonably straightforward-Eisenhorn is an Inquisitor charged with hunting down individuals and organisations dangerous to the Imperium so in structure it is not unlike a detective novel, punctuated frequently by some awesome action scenes and unravelling of ever deeper mysteries. I can't really say to much without spoilers so I will limit myself to generalities. Abnett writes characters with great vision and depth, is able to create an expressive world in single lines and importantly for a novel constantly snowballing to greater action and excitement knows when to ramp it up, hold it back or deliver a knockout punch.
    Of the three novels I enjoyed 'Xenos' the most-not I hasten to add because it is better written or has a better story but because of the increasingly tragic nature of what occurs to the main characters, for whom the Nietzschean maxim "when you stare into the Abyss, the Abyss stares into you" might well have been written. The fact that one cares and fears about the characters sliding toward radicalism in their behaviours speaking highly of his excellent writing.
    The two short stories included are well worth a read as well and even though they are presented sequentially they are designed to be stand alone pieces not important to the over-arcing plot and I find they are better enjoyed afterward as dessert pieces.
    As a side note Abnett has one of the better Lovecraftian realisations in the characterisation of some of the Chaos elements I have ever read, and as a fan of much Cthulhu mythos fiction it is no small praise.
    Overall it is a really great read. I have re-read each novel at least four times and throughly enjoyed them each time. If you have a spare $20 I highly recommend that you pick this book up. by Duncan Norris

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