The Black Library Horus Heresy - Galaxy in Flames

Muito bom!

10/10 - Die Horus Heresy ist eine der brillantesten Buchreihen, die je geschrieben wurden. Mit jedem Band wird es spannender und besser. Wer also Fan von Sci-Fi, Dystopien und oder Action-Literatur ist, und nicht genug zu lesen findet - alleine diese Buchreihe hält einen Monate wenn nicht gar Jahre gefesselt

The Horus Heresy really gets going in this third book of the series. In it we have the first of the major battles of the Warmaster's rebellion against the Emperor. It loses some of the subtlety and nuance of the first two books. They focused more on the corruption and seduction of chaos, even amongst the mighty space marines, but this is a more predictable affair, with a little less philosophy, but balanced with a lot more action.On the positive side it does feel like a 40k story, and the grim reality of the universe is captured well. Unfortunately it feels a bit simplistic, and is really a novel length show down between the various legions. Many of the big players of the rebellion are present, and you can see how they start to form the characters in the histories of the heresy.While it lacked some of the strengths of the first two books, it did create enough excitement for me to purchase the next three books, although I do hope that they return some of the depth lacking in this story.

This is a good follow-on from the previous book, fitting in with the style of "False Gods" very smoothly. The characterisations are maintained from the previous book and taken to their logical conclusion very well. The action scenes are well-written and the interactions between the characters are quite reasonable.As with the previous book there's an unfortunate lack of the kind of emotional impact which I thought would come easily to a story containing the type of plot elements that this one does, but some of the most profound scenes, such as the final stand-off between the Mournival are quite weak.Overall however I think this is a reasonable end to the first trilogy which moves on nicely from the second book, and contains some truly exciting action sequences.

Horus rising had the searing characterisation and scene-setting that Dan Abnett is rightly known for.False Gods had the nuanced plot that McNiell has shown to be his forté.However, you get the impression that, as pointed out in a previous comment, that Ben Counter was brought in too early. Yes, he handles action with the panache typical of Black Library releases, but in terms of plot and character development, he seems to be far outclassed by Abnet and McNeill. Yes, it probably didn't help that he had to work with already established characters, and yes, I dont think that this means that he is a better or worse author, but the difference in style between the first two books and the third is pretty jarring.And what's with the guy making the seemingly unilateral decision to change 'Istvaan' to 'Isstvan' ?