Sisters of Silence during the Beast saga

[Noserenda]

Heya folks, a wee request! 

I know the Sisters of Silence come up during the War of the Beast, but i abandoned the series like 1 or 2 books in and only loosely followed the plot, with the various wikia being vague on the subject, were they a regular part of the series or did they just pop up in one or two books? And which books if so? :) 

Essentially hoping some kind soul can help me refine the search rather than find/buy/read it all when most of it is garbage.

Many thanks!

[DarkChaplain]

They were recruited from a convent in exile, basically, and were then crucial in getting things solved from there on. It's safe to say, without them, the entire war would've been lost.

 

They first got mentioned in The Beast Must Die, but they first appear in Watchers in Death. The Beheading can be seen more as an epilogue, with the role of the Sisters of Silence over and done with, but they remain an important part of the Imperium's forces against the Beast until the penultimate book.

 

 

Essentially hoping some kind soul can help me refine the search rather than find/buy/read it all when most of it is garbage.
 

 

I take issue with that assessment, frankly. It's certainly not as great as it could have been, but the biggest problems with the series were down to editorial problems / overlap / details slipping through the cracks due to the near-simultaneous writing of a bunch of middle books. They reeeeeeally screwed up the scheduling, which caused numerous problems.

 

However, conceptually, the series was pretty entertaining with some bangers in there. I'll go to bat for The Last Son of Dorn any day. It's a pity that the follow-up finale by Sanders was basically the same book, but with a different result on this attempt, and with more action.

Individually, I had a good time with most of the novels, and would not call them garbage.

 

I believe I reviewed the entire set way back when, actually. I wouldn't have done that if the series was :cuss.

[nagashnee]

Yeah the series had it issues, but ultimatly it succeeded in showing an era of imperial history which was fresh and fun, while showing one or two old rulebook blurbs in more detail. All in all i rate it a solid read. 

[DukeLeto69]

Overall it was a good series and a great concept that could have done with slightly tighter oversight and/or gaps between the books (ironically for a serialised story). BL certainly learned lessons which they appear to be using for the approach to the Dawn of Fire series.

 

I would say there were some excellent books in TBA, like top notch. The “bad” books weren’t bad per se but as @DC says end up repetitive compared to a previous book (poor editorial oversight there).

 

TBA also suffered from a mid series interference from the studio who “suddenly” decided they wanted a link into the Deathwatch who were about to get a Codex shifting focus away from Sisters of Silence.