Reviews

BLACK LIBRARY BOOKS
I read a lot of Warhammer fiction, so I figured I could talk about it.

I haven't come up with any sort of 'scale' that reviewers and blogs like to use, and I honestly think such things are always a bit misleading, I mean, it's not like people who write Amazon reviews are professional copy editors with stacks of degrees in literature to back up their opinions or anything and I certainly am not either! Rather I will just tell you what I think based upon a few broad guidelines:

  • Did I like it?
  • Was it hard to put down?
  • Could I care about the characters?
  • Did the writer truly grasp how the 'world' of the 41st millennium works in the sense that it doesn't betray or retcon previously established (as I know it) lore? Or is this the work of a hack chasing a paycheck vs. establishing his mark on the ever-expanding 40k universe?
  • Was I being talked down too?
  • How predictable is this story?
  • Do I recommend this book?
I'm sure I could come up with more, but you get the idea.






Accept No Failure
by Gav Thorpe


by Rob Sanders












Blood and Fire.
By Aaron Demnshi-Bowden













by James Swallow. 

Eye of Night
by Gav Thorpe

Farseer.
by William King

By Ian Watson











By Ian Watson

By Ian Watson


Lord of the Night
By Simon Spurrier











By Matt Westbrook 

By Dan Abnett
By Andy Chambers

Red & Black.
By James Swallow











By Gav Thorpe

By Ian Watson

Space Wolves Legends of the Dark Millenium
By Ben Counter, Steve Lyons, Rob Sanders and C.L. Werner

By Aaron Demnshi-Bowden

Titanicus
By Dan Abnett

FILM:
I don't review many films, but it I do they'll relate in some way to the hobby interest expressed throughout this blog. 

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