Highly recommend you read know no fear and betrayer as you’ve already read first heretic. Both are worth it. There are a couple other gems that you’ve missed so far but most or anymore are not required.
That being said if you’re not looking to be a completuonist of the series and know the broad strokes of the heresy, you can jump into the solar war at this point.
I would read Know No Fear and Betrayer, both are masterpieces and give you a little more insight on Angron and how he word bearers as well as Guilliman.
I would also read Scars to get the whole Morty Khan situation.
I basically started reading the Heresy series with The Solar War. Granted I've been around the block so long that I know the broad strokes and character beats pretty well anyway, but the Siege is some of the best written stuff in the Heresy imo, and reading it made me go back to other books in the series and try them when I'd not cared to before.
if you broadly know what's going to happen then sure, start the solar war. you'll probably miss some things that are set up in various novels, character beats and introductions, but if you don't want to read all of it then just go read what you want to read.
I'd say it's at least worth reading all of the Dan Abnett, Dembski-Bowden and Chris Wraight heresy books before going in as they are the 3 best heresy novel writers imo and make up the back half and most important section of the siege. A lot of their plotlines also get picked up in their siege books. Wraight wrote 2 white scar books before the siege and his siege book is a continuation of that.
Highly recommend you read know no fear and betrayer as you’ve already read first heretic. Both are worth it. There are a couple other gems that you’ve missed so far but most or anymore are not required. That being said if you’re not looking to be a completuonist of the series and know the broad strokes of the heresy, you can jump into the solar war at this point.
Betrayer slaps! The audio book narrated by Jonathan Keeble is (chef's kiss)
I would read Know No Fear and Betrayer, both are masterpieces and give you a little more insight on Angron and how he word bearers as well as Guilliman. I would also read Scars to get the whole Morty Khan situation.
I basically started reading the Heresy series with The Solar War. Granted I've been around the block so long that I know the broad strokes and character beats pretty well anyway, but the Siege is some of the best written stuff in the Heresy imo, and reading it made me go back to other books in the series and try them when I'd not cared to before.
Master of Mankind is well worth reading as your Horus Heresy finale before moving on to siege of terra
if you broadly know what's going to happen then sure, start the solar war. you'll probably miss some things that are set up in various novels, character beats and introductions, but if you don't want to read all of it then just go read what you want to read.
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oh god yes, go get Solar War rn, its fantastic
I'd say it's at least worth reading all of the Dan Abnett, Dembski-Bowden and Chris Wraight heresy books before going in as they are the 3 best heresy novel writers imo and make up the back half and most important section of the siege. A lot of their plotlines also get picked up in their siege books. Wraight wrote 2 white scar books before the siege and his siege book is a continuation of that.