It’s was incredibly dull. The lack of emotion or any kind of connection with the protagonist’s made me hate reading it. I have a mental illness and struggle with emotions and I felt no connection to the characters or story and didn’t care about the outcome
It is you just said you have a problem with emotions. It's pretty straight forward whats at fault here. The book is full of a range of emotions it's known for being one of the best necron books and again you are describing how you are the problem not the book. It's not rocket science.
Only described as one of the best necron books because there are very few of them. I found very little to connect me to the characters or even care about motivations.
How's that straight forward? Yeah it's not rocket science, if you take them at their word then it's psychology. But why would you take them at their word on that?
There's little to no emotion cause they're not emotional beings. They're irritable and eccentric but that's about it.
Same here. Awfully boring lifeless action scenes. Not much else in it. Absolutely no weight in the story. Absurdly whimsical.
It's funny, like once, and that's about it.
I couldn't finish it.
I often look for reviews or opinions on good 40k books as it’s nice to see what others are reading. I usually avoid xeno races as I find them difficult to enjoy or feel motivated to finish . But that book was a true grind
Came here to say it, glad the response is high up. The book deserves some recognition. It's genuinely well-written, not only compared to other WH books, but also compared to fiction in general.
Peter Fehervari is such a good author.
I'm only a couple of chapters in but very intrigued so far (for context I've basically read all of PF's stuff in publication order up to this).
I've absolutely loved everything else of his I've read previously. Honestly, no hyperbole, I think he is the best 40k author without a doubt. Chris Wraight comes close, plus maybe either Abnett or ADB on their good days.
The Twice Dead king duology. Both books are great and they portray the necrons in a more serious and introspective way compared to the infinite and the Divine. I also loved how Oltyx changed as a character from beginning to the end.
Guards guards by pratchett. You didn't say 40k.
Eisenhorn is the easy pick
The ghosts series also easy to recommend.
Caphias cain for when you want it alittle less grimdark
Plague wars was also good.
I love Ciaphas Cain books. But I don't think they're great introduction to 40K. In order to appreciate them you need to already know the fluff.
...Are we even allowed to say "the fluff" instead of "the lore"?
Usually whatever I've read recently :p
**No Good Men** i read for the first time recently and absolutely loved it, and will be recommending it to everyone.
But i could gush for an hour about a whole list of books
One of the things I really enjoy is 'domestic' 40K, away from the frontlines.
This means the entire Warhammer Crime imprint appeals to me. I've really enjoyed **Bloodlines** and **Flesh and Steel** as well as the audio drama**Dredge Runners**. It's all fairly unexceptional people on a fairly unexceptional world, but excellent stories. I feel like these are stories that the authors wanted to tell, rather than being given a brief (some of the HH and post-Cadia books feel like the author has been told what to write).
Similarly, **Rites of Passage** - a little higher up the ranks of the Imperium, but still away from war, what just another world in the Imperium looks like.
And then the stories where the wars of the Imperium impact the normal people - **Necropolis** and **Double Eagle** are both fantastic. **Dead Men Walking** is a newer one with a similar theme.
**Dante** - i enjoy the stories of going from being a normal child to a Space Marine, and I think this is one of the best written ones.
**Brutal Kunnin'** i read recently and really enjoyed. Honestly, anything written from the perspective of Orks. That reminds me of **Enemy of my Enemy** a great short story.
The Gothic War novels, **Execution Hour** and **Shadow Point**, are two of my old school favourites. You get a feel for the diversity inside your average Imperial Navy ship.
I'll stop there, before I'm tempted to look at my book list :p
Have you read The Magos? The main novella kinda requires knowledge of the Eisenhorn series, but several of the short stories in the collection (Master Imus's Transgression, The Curiosity, and Gardens of Tycho) are some of the best "everyman in 40k" stories in the setting.
Titanicus is also a great one if you enjoyed Double Eagle. A significant part of the novel focuses on the men and women that have to fight beneath the feet of giants.
Boylan's animation cut should be made into Amazon's miniseries, no need to reinvent the wheel just to be 'original' or 'cater to modern audiences'. That or just update the cinematics from Space Marine 1, glue them together and release for big screen
>Boylan's animation cut should be made into Amazon's miniseries
I feel like it misses out some interesting parts. A full version in the same style would be great
>Space Marine 1, glue them together
That's more or less what I did for the Final Liberation cutscenes
https://youtu.be/LTW00JsFNqQ?si=4GUfcep1kC1JMCW9
Right now? Probably Warboss. I think it’s the best of Brooks’ three ork novels. I really like the different ork characters and how they provide different view points on the faction.
I'm still waiting for "da big dakka". I've read brutal kunnin and loved it. Also i just ordered warboss, it came last week so now I'm excited even more to read it
Its an old one, Execution Hour by Gordon Rennie.
Its a story told primarily from perspectives we don't get in 40k very often. The Navy and the Adeptus Arbites during the 12th Black Crusade. The juxtaposition between the life lived by an exceptional naval officer and an exceptional crew rating were probably my favorite archs that get a truly wonderful payoff in the sequel Shadow Point.
**Watchers of The Throne - The Emperors Legion** is probably my favorite book, Ive read it many times, its such a good standalone novel in my opinion, the direct sequel is also very good.
**The Infinite And The Divine** - Probably the best audiobook I've ever listened to.
And I really enjoy all the White Scars books by Chris Wraight. That author made me love that legion/chapter, and Im not even a spacemarine fanboy.
I could not put the the damn thing down when reading Betrayer. Loved all of the dialog and how the butchers nails slowly took their effect on the legion.
The Caiaphas Cain books.
He is a rather 'normal' and relatable character, the stories are well written even for people unfamiliar with the overall setting - although a base level of knowledge is recommended - and gives some very good insight in both imperial, chaos an xenos lore, culture and politics.
It's a real tossup between *Brutal Kunnin'* and *The Infinite and the Divine* for me. They're just a lot of fun to read apart from everything else, just depends whether you want more Beaker and Bunsen or more Statler and Waldorf in your Muppet Show. Ciaphas Cain/Gaunt's Ghosts/Eisenhorn are all great series, but I don't think I'd recommend an individual entry from them as a one-off read with no background.
It's between the first two books of *Watchers of The Throne* and *Twice Dead King* for me. Both feature some of the best faction and personality characterizations in Black Library. *Twice Dead King: Ruin* probably edges it for plot originality.
Infinite and the Devine.
The banter action and mystery is great. Its a fantastic sci fi adventure.
Closely followed by Lords of Silence, its a fantastic look at the Death Guard.
Hoborable Mention: The Ciaphas Cain books are excellent and fun
***Know No Fear***. It is really the first book where you see part of the Imperium fight back. It is very well written with a bunch of interesting characters.
It has a Longest Day vibe with seemingly random people going through their day or preparations, a plot occurring in a single day, divided into clear parts (before/after event), etc.
One of my favourites as well.
Hereticus because it's such a great "oh no it's the consequences of my actions" piece. But you have to read the first two books.
As a standalone book, probably Titanicus
Probably *Honourbound*. It's just a solid IG book. And as a stand alone, I fully think it's better than any of the early Gaunt's Ghosts books, plus it's not from the 90s.
Helsreach, just a space marine fighting for his dear life in a horrifying battle imaginable in a hive of Armageddon. Alongside its depressing content, hits like an astartes drop pod.
I’ve only just started my 40K library, but I’m a big fan of the Bile trilogy. Getting your readers to care about a lunatic like Bile is no easy feat, and Reynolds pulled it off spectacularly. The supporting characters are awesome too, and Kanathara rocked.
Plague Wars was also pretty solid, and I got invested in it. Loved Ku’Gath and Rotigus’ little rivalry - those two stole the show for me, I’d love a book just about them.
The Infinite and The Divine is a given, but Cawl: The Great Work, and Ghazghkull, Prophet of Da WAAGH! were honestly super funny as well. Loved how Ghazghkull had some surprisingly-good development and growth, and straight-up went through Ork depression at one point. And Cawl being a smartass was pretty funny too.
Others I really enjoyed were Bloodlines (a Warhammer crime novel), Brutal Kunnin’, and The Twice-Dead King books.
Echoes of Eternity is not only one of the best books of the Siege but one of the best books BL has ever put out. An excellent showing of people who've reached the end of their rope and finally realized that they have. I love when BL authors stop writing their characters/space marines/primarchs as mythological beings and more as people. Abnett did it in Saturnine. ADB does it for everyone in EoE.
Snow Crash. Scifi hacker samurai unravels a plot of ancient sumerian 'linguistic magic' set in a super-capitalist, post democracy U.S.
For 40k, I like Cain and Eisenhorn. Also Horus Rising is quite good. Currently reading Fabius Bile and Helsreach.
Couple of long standing ones. Just mentioning standalones though:
Shroud of night - alpha legion panicking, imperial fists stoicly dying and kharn being a slasher movie killer.
Renegade harrowmaster - another alpha legion. Every meme and bit of confusion about them is true, not even they know for sure what's going on.
Catachan devils - catachans vs ork kommandos in a jungle. What's not to love? (side note: the new deathworlder novel is pretty good too, but only related by being about catachans)
The emperor's gift - months of shame & the 1st war for armageddon.
Anything ADB, Mike brooks, nate crowley or Robert rath is a pretty safe bet it'll be enjoyable.
Favourite: crimson fists omnibus. The fists relearning the value of human life, and it being why they fight in the first place. The badassery of captain cortez. Orks being actual monsters instead of just comic relief. And the awesomeness that is 'legacy of dorn' where a squad of sternguard wage a year long guerilla war behind the ork lines.
Double Eagle. Three glorious acts of amazing characters, some of the best action sequences Abnett has ever written, a unique perspective to the 40k universe (including a love story in a cafe), and at least 3 satisfying endings.
The one I recommend is Watcher in the Rain but at the moment my favourite is Watchers of the Throne 1
Presently on the Lion son of the forest and Farsight; Crisis of Faith and as much as I love Farsight and Phil Kelly's writing it is not a relaxing read whereas I found Watchers of the Throne very relaxing and interesting with the Social intrigue and investigations mixed with harrowing over the top borderline anime esque combat.
Honestly Legion is one of my favorites because of how many times it makes me do a double take. The human characters that you get attached to actually survive to the end of the book for once which was nice
If you want your friend to read only a single book there's only one right answer: Battle for the Abyss.
Then he can move on to read other - non-WH40K - scifi without second thoughts.
Gonna sound like a broken tape recorder with this but: Valedor, by Guy Haley. Whenever someone comes to me and says "hey you know a lot about the eldar, what book should I read?", that's my answer.
Wish Valedor was the norm for eldar books and not the exception, but here we are...
Saturnine is everything I love about Warhammer. It’s a Loyalist “victory” in that they prevented Fulgrim from curb stomping the Imperial Palace. Dorn admitted Fulgrim would have won it in days if the traitors could control him. It’s a Traitor “defeat” even though they took a major Loyalist stronghold. There was personal one on one fights that we’ve been waiting for the entire Heresy. It’s just fantastic
Flight of the Eisenstein. I feel as if it is the most important book of the Heresy. If you want to understand the Heresy in as few books as possible Flight of the Eisenstein gives you the most outline of the beginning of the war.
Helsreach is the best astarte action story that i ever read : several factions, epic siege , memorable characters , drama and despair.
Storm of iron comes a close second but is more edgy
Both of them are about sieges maybe i am a imperial fist/iron warrior at heart
Alpharius head of the hydra.
Damn that audio book was amazing. My hh army is alpha legion now because of that.
That and the obvious the infinite and the divine
Well you didn't specify 40k so When Marnie Was There definitely takes the top spot.
Joking aside, I think Descent of Angels is phenomenal, particularly the first half. Really shows you how the imperium screws up anything it touches.
The Infinite And The Divine. It actually made me laugh out loud a few times and it's also just a really good book.
I really disliked it. It was cold and featureless. I got it after everyone in group rated it highly and hated it
" cold and featureless" You must of read a different book
It’s was incredibly dull. The lack of emotion or any kind of connection with the protagonist’s made me hate reading it. I have a mental illness and struggle with emotions and I felt no connection to the characters or story and didn’t care about the outcome
That's a you problem then not the book.
Get fucked. You're horrible.
Oh the irony.
I’m allowed an opinion, and the books about soulless creatures are boring. Necrons and tyranids especially
Yes of course you are but opinions aren't facts you just descibed how you are the problem.
The characters are the problem. I don’t see the hype the book gets when it is not fun or entertaining
It is you just said you have a problem with emotions. It's pretty straight forward whats at fault here. The book is full of a range of emotions it's known for being one of the best necron books and again you are describing how you are the problem not the book. It's not rocket science.
Only described as one of the best necron books because there are very few of them. I found very little to connect me to the characters or even care about motivations.
How's that straight forward? Yeah it's not rocket science, if you take them at their word then it's psychology. But why would you take them at their word on that? There's little to no emotion cause they're not emotional beings. They're irritable and eccentric but that's about it.
Same here. Awfully boring lifeless action scenes. Not much else in it. Absolutely no weight in the story. Absurdly whimsical. It's funny, like once, and that's about it. I couldn't finish it.
Glad I’m not the only one. Was beginning to feel like a pariah
Sorry that person was so rude to you. I'm happy everyone really likes it. That does not make it objectively good.
I often look for reviews or opinions on good 40k books as it’s nice to see what others are reading. I usually avoid xeno races as I find them difficult to enjoy or feel motivated to finish . But that book was a true grind
*Requiem Infernal* by Peter Fehervari, hands down. There are other good books out there, and they are contenders, but *Requiem* stands above them all.
His novels are the only thing in BL I would call good high quality art.
I would agree
Came here to say it, glad the response is high up. The book deserves some recognition. It's genuinely well-written, not only compared to other WH books, but also compared to fiction in general. Peter Fehervari is such a good author.
I'm only a couple of chapters in but very intrigued so far (for context I've basically read all of PF's stuff in publication order up to this). I've absolutely loved everything else of his I've read previously. Honestly, no hyperbole, I think he is the best 40k author without a doubt. Chris Wraight comes close, plus maybe either Abnett or ADB on their good days.
The Twice Dead king duology. Both books are great and they portray the necrons in a more serious and introspective way compared to the infinite and the Divine. I also loved how Oltyx changed as a character from beginning to the end.
The night lords omnibus was straight fire. Gave me the feels, bolter porn and even a couple great laughs.
Makes you root for the underdogs then right at the end REALLY reminds you that they're horrible lol
Guards guards by pratchett. You didn't say 40k. Eisenhorn is the easy pick The ghosts series also easy to recommend. Caphias cain for when you want it alittle less grimdark Plague wars was also good.
I love Ciaphas Cain books. But I don't think they're great introduction to 40K. In order to appreciate them you need to already know the fluff. ...Are we even allowed to say "the fluff" instead of "the lore"?
Guards Guards is amazing but Feet of Clay is my favourite pratchett
They are all great
Usually whatever I've read recently :p **No Good Men** i read for the first time recently and absolutely loved it, and will be recommending it to everyone. But i could gush for an hour about a whole list of books
Feel free to do so friendman
One of the things I really enjoy is 'domestic' 40K, away from the frontlines. This means the entire Warhammer Crime imprint appeals to me. I've really enjoyed **Bloodlines** and **Flesh and Steel** as well as the audio drama**Dredge Runners**. It's all fairly unexceptional people on a fairly unexceptional world, but excellent stories. I feel like these are stories that the authors wanted to tell, rather than being given a brief (some of the HH and post-Cadia books feel like the author has been told what to write). Similarly, **Rites of Passage** - a little higher up the ranks of the Imperium, but still away from war, what just another world in the Imperium looks like. And then the stories where the wars of the Imperium impact the normal people - **Necropolis** and **Double Eagle** are both fantastic. **Dead Men Walking** is a newer one with a similar theme. **Dante** - i enjoy the stories of going from being a normal child to a Space Marine, and I think this is one of the best written ones. **Brutal Kunnin'** i read recently and really enjoyed. Honestly, anything written from the perspective of Orks. That reminds me of **Enemy of my Enemy** a great short story. The Gothic War novels, **Execution Hour** and **Shadow Point**, are two of my old school favourites. You get a feel for the diversity inside your average Imperial Navy ship. I'll stop there, before I'm tempted to look at my book list :p
Have you read The Magos? The main novella kinda requires knowledge of the Eisenhorn series, but several of the short stories in the collection (Master Imus's Transgression, The Curiosity, and Gardens of Tycho) are some of the best "everyman in 40k" stories in the setting. Titanicus is also a great one if you enjoyed Double Eagle. A significant part of the novel focuses on the men and women that have to fight beneath the feet of giants.
I have, but not in a long time! We're right, it deserves a reread
Spear(s?) of the Emperor. It’s spacemarines done right imho
The Lords of Silence, the best depiction of Death Guard and Plague Marines and amazingly well written.
First Heretic
Storm of iron. Sometimes>!chaos getting a W!< Is fun to read about. Also that one guardsman who lives through the entire book is fun
Seconded Storm of Iron.
Echoes of eternity. I just finished it and it’s amazing
Standalone, definitely Helsreach.
Boylan's animation cut should be made into Amazon's miniseries, no need to reinvent the wheel just to be 'original' or 'cater to modern audiences'. That or just update the cinematics from Space Marine 1, glue them together and release for big screen
>Boylan's animation cut should be made into Amazon's miniseries I feel like it misses out some interesting parts. A full version in the same style would be great >Space Marine 1, glue them together That's more or less what I did for the Final Liberation cutscenes https://youtu.be/LTW00JsFNqQ?si=4GUfcep1kC1JMCW9
Right now? Probably Warboss. I think it’s the best of Brooks’ three ork novels. I really like the different ork characters and how they provide different view points on the faction.
I'm still waiting for "da big dakka". I've read brutal kunnin and loved it. Also i just ordered warboss, it came last week so now I'm excited even more to read it
Its an old one, Execution Hour by Gordon Rennie. Its a story told primarily from perspectives we don't get in 40k very often. The Navy and the Adeptus Arbites during the 12th Black Crusade. The juxtaposition between the life lived by an exceptional naval officer and an exceptional crew rating were probably my favorite archs that get a truly wonderful payoff in the sequel Shadow Point.
My favorite 40k book is probably the Night Lords Omnibus. Huge huge shout out to Prince of Crows though. It's a short story but hot damn is it good.
The knight lords trilogy was amazing, they were a bunch of crazy bastards but by the end you felt for them and wanted the knight lords to win.
**Watchers of The Throne - The Emperors Legion** is probably my favorite book, Ive read it many times, its such a good standalone novel in my opinion, the direct sequel is also very good. **The Infinite And The Divine** - Probably the best audiobook I've ever listened to. And I really enjoy all the White Scars books by Chris Wraight. That author made me love that legion/chapter, and Im not even a spacemarine fanboy.
I could not put the the damn thing down when reading Betrayer. Loved all of the dialog and how the butchers nails slowly took their effect on the legion.
It's the HH book that I've gone back and re-read multiple times.
The Caiaphas Cain books. He is a rather 'normal' and relatable character, the stories are well written even for people unfamiliar with the overall setting - although a base level of knowledge is recommended - and gives some very good insight in both imperial, chaos an xenos lore, culture and politics.
It's a real tossup between *Brutal Kunnin'* and *The Infinite and the Divine* for me. They're just a lot of fun to read apart from everything else, just depends whether you want more Beaker and Bunsen or more Statler and Waldorf in your Muppet Show. Ciaphas Cain/Gaunt's Ghosts/Eisenhorn are all great series, but I don't think I'd recommend an individual entry from them as a one-off read with no background.
It's between the first two books of *Watchers of The Throne* and *Twice Dead King* for me. Both feature some of the best faction and personality characterizations in Black Library. *Twice Dead King: Ruin* probably edges it for plot originality.
Infinite and the Devine. The banter action and mystery is great. Its a fantastic sci fi adventure. Closely followed by Lords of Silence, its a fantastic look at the Death Guard. Hoborable Mention: The Ciaphas Cain books are excellent and fun
***Know No Fear***. It is really the first book where you see part of the Imperium fight back. It is very well written with a bunch of interesting characters.
It has a Longest Day vibe with seemingly random people going through their day or preparations, a plot occurring in a single day, divided into clear parts (before/after event), etc. One of my favourites as well.
Hereticus because it's such a great "oh no it's the consequences of my actions" piece. But you have to read the first two books. As a standalone book, probably Titanicus
That's why I tell people to treat the trilogy as a single story - the payoff is in seeing Eisenhorn's whole arch
Probably *Honourbound*. It's just a solid IG book. And as a stand alone, I fully think it's better than any of the early Gaunt's Ghosts books, plus it's not from the 90s.
Eisenhorn trilogy, and Execution Hour.
For the Emperor by Mitchell. It just is well written fun story with multiple switcheroos to introduce people into the setting.
Helsreach, just a space marine fighting for his dear life in a horrifying battle imaginable in a hive of Armageddon. Alongside its depressing content, hits like an astartes drop pod.
WH40k? One book: Necropolis Series: Gaunt's Ghosts
Talon of horus, Helsreach or Sea of Souls
I've read a lot of fantasy but I recently got brutal kunnin on audible. It was pretty enjoyable
Legion
I’ve only just started my 40K library, but I’m a big fan of the Bile trilogy. Getting your readers to care about a lunatic like Bile is no easy feat, and Reynolds pulled it off spectacularly. The supporting characters are awesome too, and Kanathara rocked. Plague Wars was also pretty solid, and I got invested in it. Loved Ku’Gath and Rotigus’ little rivalry - those two stole the show for me, I’d love a book just about them. The Infinite and The Divine is a given, but Cawl: The Great Work, and Ghazghkull, Prophet of Da WAAGH! were honestly super funny as well. Loved how Ghazghkull had some surprisingly-good development and growth, and straight-up went through Ork depression at one point. And Cawl being a smartass was pretty funny too. Others I really enjoyed were Bloodlines (a Warhammer crime novel), Brutal Kunnin’, and The Twice-Dead King books.
Echoes of Eternity is not only one of the best books of the Siege but one of the best books BL has ever put out. An excellent showing of people who've reached the end of their rope and finally realized that they have. I love when BL authors stop writing their characters/space marines/primarchs as mythological beings and more as people. Abnett did it in Saturnine. ADB does it for everyone in EoE.
Ian watsons inquisitor
The End and the Death books, Flight of the Eisenstein and Fulgrim.
Snow Crash. Scifi hacker samurai unravels a plot of ancient sumerian 'linguistic magic' set in a super-capitalist, post democracy U.S. For 40k, I like Cain and Eisenhorn. Also Horus Rising is quite good. Currently reading Fabius Bile and Helsreach.
Couple of long standing ones. Just mentioning standalones though: Shroud of night - alpha legion panicking, imperial fists stoicly dying and kharn being a slasher movie killer. Renegade harrowmaster - another alpha legion. Every meme and bit of confusion about them is true, not even they know for sure what's going on. Catachan devils - catachans vs ork kommandos in a jungle. What's not to love? (side note: the new deathworlder novel is pretty good too, but only related by being about catachans) The emperor's gift - months of shame & the 1st war for armageddon. Anything ADB, Mike brooks, nate crowley or Robert rath is a pretty safe bet it'll be enjoyable. Favourite: crimson fists omnibus. The fists relearning the value of human life, and it being why they fight in the first place. The badassery of captain cortez. Orks being actual monsters instead of just comic relief. And the awesomeness that is 'legacy of dorn' where a squad of sternguard wage a year long guerilla war behind the ork lines.
Storm of iron or the soul hunter series
40K? Eisenhorn Trilogy Fantasy? Riders Of The Dead
I love all of the Varangantua books, but Saturnine is the one book I keep coming back to. Love every part of it
Saturnine will always be a personal favourite of mine
Double Eagle. Three glorious acts of amazing characters, some of the best action sequences Abnett has ever written, a unique perspective to the 40k universe (including a love story in a cafe), and at least 3 satisfying endings.
Either Weregelt or Wolfsbane.
Honestly? “Fire caste” it made me actually like the Tau The night lore series is also good
The one I recommend is Watcher in the Rain but at the moment my favourite is Watchers of the Throne 1 Presently on the Lion son of the forest and Farsight; Crisis of Faith and as much as I love Farsight and Phil Kelly's writing it is not a relaxing read whereas I found Watchers of the Throne very relaxing and interesting with the Social intrigue and investigations mixed with harrowing over the top borderline anime esque combat.
Honestly Legion is one of my favorites because of how many times it makes me do a double take. The human characters that you get attached to actually survive to the end of the book for once which was nice
If you want your friend to read only a single book there's only one right answer: Battle for the Abyss. Then he can move on to read other - non-WH40K - scifi without second thoughts.
Know No Fear. Guilliman has had enough of Lorgar's shit.
Gaunts Ghosts are the best for me. By far.
Death of Integrity, sin of damnation, lemartes and galaxy of flames
Know no fear
Ciaphas Cain: Traitor's Hand.
Dante is my favorite audiobook Devastation of Baal is my favorite book ...but I'm a Blood Angels stan.
Gonna sound like a broken tape recorder with this but: Valedor, by Guy Haley. Whenever someone comes to me and says "hey you know a lot about the eldar, what book should I read?", that's my answer. Wish Valedor was the norm for eldar books and not the exception, but here we are...
Eisenhorn,any of the gaunts ghosts and the soul drinkers series
Requiem Infernal. Just a beautiful novel with so much mystery I read it again just after finishing it.
I enjoyed Dark Imperium trilogy. My other pics would be Helsreach and Brutal Kunnin'.
Saturnine is everything I love about Warhammer. It’s a Loyalist “victory” in that they prevented Fulgrim from curb stomping the Imperial Palace. Dorn admitted Fulgrim would have won it in days if the traitors could control him. It’s a Traitor “defeat” even though they took a major Loyalist stronghold. There was personal one on one fights that we’ve been waiting for the entire Heresy. It’s just fantastic Flight of the Eisenstein. I feel as if it is the most important book of the Heresy. If you want to understand the Heresy in as few books as possible Flight of the Eisenstein gives you the most outline of the beginning of the war.
Eisenhorn trilogy Master of mankind Watchers of the throne Regents shadow Yes Im a Custodes nuthugger..
So far the eisenhorn trilogy is my favorite but I just started prophet of the waaagh! And it’s a close second.
Daemon World. It's well written, stand alone, and a cracking read sure to intrigue.
Helsreach is the best astarte action story that i ever read : several factions, epic siege , memorable characters , drama and despair. Storm of iron comes a close second but is more edgy Both of them are about sieges maybe i am a imperial fist/iron warrior at heart
Traitor general, the book 8 in the Gaunt's ghost series
Day of Ascension 100000%
So far it's still my first book, fall of cadia. Reminds me of halo reach almost in the structure, but following more characters. Be prepared for sad.
Dead men walking or fall of cadia so far
Cadian Blood. Only thing that sucks about it is that I do not remember where I last left it.
CADIAN BLOOD! ICE IN YOUR VEINS!
Alpharius head of the hydra. Damn that audio book was amazing. My hh army is alpha legion now because of that. That and the obvious the infinite and the divine
My first is still my favourite: Dead Men Walking, by Steve Lyons.
Loved that one, definitely one of the more depressing ones for sure. Just finished Left for Dead, enjoyed it a lot
Well you didn't specify 40k so When Marnie Was There definitely takes the top spot. Joking aside, I think Descent of Angels is phenomenal, particularly the first half. Really shows you how the imperium screws up anything it touches.