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Behold, the discussion thread. Hand of Abaddon - Nick Kyme In the grim darkness of the far future, everyone has a scar on the side of their face. This was okay. I'm a champion of Kyme of late, but while his prose has improved it's still not especially good. What makes things like Old Earth, Volpone Glory, and (IMO) The Iron Kingdom fun reads is that Kyme has an editor's understanding of story structure, and what's exciting for the reader. I thought this book lacked that to some degree and suffers as a result; it seems more like Kyme the Editor needed to get all the series' ducks in a row for Haley's finale, rather than telling his own tale. This means it loses a bit of why I like Dawn of Fire as well, as it doesn't fit into the series' typical "independent story that pushes a few running threads." It's Dawn of Fire 8 first and its own thing second. As for each sub-plot: A very generous 5/10, so it gets apassing grade. Clearly To Taste, because a bunch of people seem to enjoy it for finally reading like the next entry in a proper series. As mentioned, that's the main reason I found it disappointing.

Hi everyone, a review thread for Throne of Light now that it has released I haven't yet read Faith and Fury, so I'm not sure how this meshes with that. But I'm on chapter eleven and so far, so good :) I doubt this will be as controversial as the Wolftime*, although the events of that book have been referenced, and it carries on the plots also of Dawn of Fire and Gate of Bones well as well as laying the ground more for the Dark Imperium trilogy's plot points. The starchild and wider psychic awakening is a theme of the book, but I must admit I'm very doubtful of the Siege or Pandaemonium connections others talk about on the board. If there was to be anything, then surely a connection to perhaps more relevant activities in the contemporaneous Covenant books (whose horusian and thorian themes also are star childy). But there isn't. The parish nexus's importance is made clear, but it isn't yet the subject of the series. As a book in its own right, the characters are fresh, and Haley gives room to a characterful roster - Lucerne, Fabian, to Rostov and his team, Messinius and Areios, and to the word bearers too. He continues to have Guilliman viewed by those around him, which makes a nice change from Dark Imperium. Thinking of DI, I wonder at what point Felix will emerge, or if we have met him already? In the twelve years of the crusade a figure important enough to be appointed a new tetrarch emerges, but so far we haven't yet seen such a significant figure among any of the Sons of Guilliman. It may be Felix never is a character in this series - but that would be surprising, given his prominance in DI, at the start of which he is the primarch's equerry, a successor to Hurak. I hope this doesn't spell a dark fate for the latter?