3/21/2024 0 Comments Doom project brutality 3.0 master![]() ![]() Abnett readily admits in his Afterword the impossible task before him. ![]() Of course, a book this big, with this much riding on it, can’t be reviewed from just one perspective. It really is one book, albeit a bloody long one, and so I’m going to try to review it as such here. It’s not just that TEATD’s plot plays out over three books it’s that there are themes, character arcs, and elements of mood and tone that don’t snap into focus until you’ve digested the whole volume. That may seem like a semantic distinction at best, but with all three parts in our hands, I think it’s actually just an honest way of describing the book. You should check out his reviews of parts I, II and III as well.Ībnett has said repeatedly, in interviews and in the length afterword that accompanies this book, that TEATD is not three novels, but one in three parts. I’m not going to try to review The End And The Death 3 as a standalone book my friend and colleague Lenoon has already done that, and nothing I write could improve what he’s already done. He started this whole mess, and despite his penchant for unsatisfying endings, he’s earned the right to finish it. Eighteen years later, the Horus Heresy series (and the Siege that followed it) has bloated like its namesake, swollen with power, drunk on possibility, seeking to draw everything into its embrace because it simply could not imagine the word “enough.” The series has sprawled, and not to its benefit, but it’s fitting that as we reach the bloody denouement we are once again in Abnett’s hands. We glimpsed, too, a series that could have been: tight, economical, spinning myth onto the page and setting forth the secret origins of the Dark Millennium. The Greek-tragedy structure of the Heresy illuminated the flaws in his soul, flaws that would bring the Imperium crashing down, but in Horus Rising we saw a glimpse of the Horus that could have been. The Horus we met back in Horus Rising was a noble man, an honorable man, a man trying to do his best in impossible circumstances. Like Loken’s brothers, we chuckled at the sheer treason of the conceit, especially when Dan Abnett pulled back his lens to reveal the conjurer’s trick he’d played on us. It’s been almost 18 years since Loken first told us about how he was there, the day Horus killed the Emperor. It’s been almost 18 years since Horus Rising introduced us to Garviel Loken, his heroic-but-doomed dad, and his brothers-in-arms. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.This review will contain spoilers for the End and the Death, but they will be spoiler-tagged. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. ![]() If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. ![]()
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