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  On 11/23/2018 at 11:50 AM, Punishing Pete said:

Stop it

 

I don't think it will make a convert out of you or anyone else dead set against Annandale; but for those like me who are always frustrated by those kernels of quality in his otherwise mired work, its great. To me its a sign that Annandale just needs a better editor, even an out-and-out battle book from him might be interesting if the focus is on the how and why of the war and its leaders, rather than how pretty the gore is.

I jest... in part. It would be wonderful if Annandale has swallowed the magic author mushrooms. But your right I probably am beyond conversion. I’ve read, spent money on and wasted too much precious reading time on too many books by him and ended up so terribly disappointed. I can’t understand why BL have pushed him into such a position of prominence, the answer must be that he must sell books. He’s had multiple limited editions, been active in the Heresy, a leading light in AoS fiction. He must be good, just not for me!

The Bloodied Rose - Danie Ware

 

Can it be? Good Sisters fiction? Praise the emperor.

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ANR: 8/10

  On 11/25/2018 at 5:41 PM, Roomsky said:

The Bloodied Rose - Danie Ware

 

Can it be? Good Sisters fiction? Praise the emperor.

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ANR: 8/10

Agreed. Her prose has been the most consistent and fluffy in regarding Sisters. I posted on the Black Library Facebook page saying she should get the chance to write a full blown book. They responded that they'd pass the idea on. Of course, that doesnt mean anything will come from it, by I hope so.

  On 11/25/2018 at 5:41 PM, Roomsky said:

The Bloodied Rose - Danie Ware

 

Can it be? Good Sisters fiction? Praise the emperor.

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ANR: 8/10

Sounds great, I enjoyed her story in inferno and had good expectations for this. I like the slow burn, we need some good solid sister fluff not straight to the Dakka. It’s s little down my reading list but I think it’s just moved up a few!

Wanted: Dead is an excellent novella, one which passes the Bechdel Test with flying colours, focusing on one character in particular from a double-crossed Escher gang, her partner and another ganger. It features female Goliaths, a disabled Van Saar, includes details about pregnancy and family in the Underhive, and the underhivers who join the house gangs, and is very detailed and characterful whilst being an efficient, quick read. Loved it. 

About two or three chapters into Auric Gods.

 

As of now, we got two different Custodes protagonists: one being an eye of the Emperor, the other being on Terra. As of now, it feels like this should have been released along the Custodes codex.

 

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I'm not an expert in terms of prose and such. Until now, I'm enjoying it thus far. :smile.:

  On 11/27/2018 at 3:38 PM, Kelborn said:

About two or three chapters into Auric Gods.

 

As of now, we got two different Custodes protagonists: one being an eye of the Emperor, the other being on Terra. As of now, it feels like this should have been released along the Custodes codex.

 

Of interest might be

 

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I'm not an expert in terms of prose and such. Until now, I'm enjoying it thus far. :smile.:

Anything noteworthy to spoil about the Eye of the Emperor Role or the Character atleast? I mean general fluff

Into chapters six. The Eye of the Emperor only appeared in chapter one thus far and was mentioned by other Custodes.

 

Don't want to write the entire story down, so basically what happens

 

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Generally speaking does it tie in very well with what we got by Aaron, Chris and Dan, refering to all of their Custodes stuff. If it keeps up until the end, I'd even want more done by Kyme.

Gloriana class ships were apparently around 20km minimum. 50 seems like a stretch, but it only uses that exact number to state how much of a mess the warp exit was.

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The Invincible Reason was the first to slip free of the warp.

It broke into the silence of real space as if onto black ice. Break thrusters fired along its prow and up the battlemented emplacements of its central ridgeline. Turbulent energies conjured by the interaction of the unreal with the real snapped from bow to stern over its pockmarked armour, summoning a halo to the immense basalt figures that stood bestride the cardinals of its dorsal spine, Dark Angels with swords raised and pinions unfurled. The remainder of the fleet followed momentarily. Space itself burst aflame as reality was ripped apart, kilometre after kilometre of void-black warship extruding from the beyond. The fires guttered briefly as the wound scarred over, flames capering after the escaping warships before the pressures of reality finally snuffed them cold. From the stillness of space it was a ballet of precision and beauty.

Aboard the bridge of the Invincible Reason it was the frantically unchoreographed derailment of a fifty-kilometre-long, nineteen-car locomotive.

 

To me it seems more like a statement about the fleet's exit than the precise measurements of the Gloriana. Nineteen-car locomotive, other warships following on from its example.. Sounds more like a figurative statement.

Read Steel Daemon which was ok - disappointing ending for me.

My dad is down for the weekend (I'm 34) and read the sisters novella - declaring it to be one of the best black library books he has read. Bearing in mind I think we have read most of them since black library launched all those years ago. Skipping forward I think to 4 (I don't read Kyme).

Well, I enjoyed Auric Gods.

It was an entertaining read. A tiny bit predictable but still enjoyable. Reminded me of some old Sci-Fi movies but can't say which one.

 

The concept of the (spoiler alert)

 

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As we haven't got that much about the Custodes, this one is a nice addition. As I said earlier, it would have been a very good addition to their codex' release in February, as it dives into the different factions within the Golden Legion. Especially the insight into the Shadowkeepers was, at least, interesting for me. Don't expect an essay about them but now I got a better understandment of what they are actualy doing and how I could make use of them for some homebrewn stuff.

Currently reading Dreadwing. I, too, think that Guymer should get a second chance to write some DA stuff. But that's something for another thread. :)

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I spent a very pleasant afternoon with The Bloodied Rose and Wanted: Dead watching snow occasionally.

 

Both of them make good use of the novella format, doing what they do and not outstaying their welcome.

 

I assume that everyone agrees that the quality of BL fiction has improved over the last 20-odd years, but when I say that The Bloodied Rose would have fitted in perfectly with the Deathwing anthology, I’m not slagging it off. As others have mentioned, it really does capture the old, insidious nature of chaos, especially the

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in a better way than other, longer books have. I’m definitely looking forward to a longer work by this author.

 

Speaking of looking forward to more works by an author, Wanted: Dead. This brought me back to how I felt upon the original release of Necromunda, totally capturing my imagined landscape and adding so much more to it. The snapshots of gangs in their downtime, glimpses of ‘civilian’ life and even attempts at exploring the economy of the Underhive all while maintaining a light, pulpy tone.

 

I’ve got to be honest, I was most excited and looking forward to reading about the relationship between Jarene and Quinne- references to romantic relationships are more common than you might expect in The BL, but this is by my count only the 3rd non-hetero one (the others being between rememberancers on Prospero and a PDF trooper in the Beast Arises)- and it didn’t disappoint. The gangers are, by most modern moral standards, horrible people, but they a shown to care about each other. The romantic relationship is nice and subtle, not in a ‘ewww lesbians rubbing it in our faces’ way, more in the way it doesn’t intrude into the shootouts and heists that everyone reads this sort of thing for really. It adds to the story, but it’s incidental, it’s great that they’re both women in terms of representation, but like a real-world lesbian relationship they’re still people. I’m just dead pleased that there is some LGBT representation in 40k and am now *really* looking forward to Mike Brooks’ Navigator book where he promises more of the same, safe in the the knowledge that I like his writing too.

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