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Battle for the Abyss

The Horus Heresy, Book 8

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Battle for the Abyss

By: Ben Counter
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
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Now that news of Horus' treachery is in the open, a time of testing has come. Some Legions have already declared their allegiance to the Warmaster while the loyalty of others lies firmly with the Emperor. As Horus deploys his forces, loyalist Astartes learn that a massive Wordbearers fleet is heading to Ultramar, home of the Ultramarines.

Unless they can intercept the fleet and destroy the mighty battleship that has been sent to reinforce it, the Ultramarines may suffer a blow from which they will never recover.

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People suggest avoiding this one. Having just gone through it I can kinda see why. Previous volumes manage to keep you invested but it's hard to care about anything that happens in this particular story. Its far less grandiose. The space combat aspect of it is ok but limiting. If this was a movie it would mainly shift between the bridge of ship A vs the bridge of ship B. I felt like there were a lot of opportunities to mix it up but the most traditional road was taken to tell a classic story of good, evil and personal sacrifice . Great performance from the narrator though. Pick it up if you want some more insight on ultramarines and word bearers chapters.

Kind of meh

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took me a while to get into this story, and although well narrated I found the story left me feeling a little disappointed. some what anti-climatic.

it's an ok read

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Bang average worth a listen but instantly forgettable.
Narrated did his best worst of the hours heresy collection so far.

Bang average

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Adds nothing to the series, by far the worst horus heresy book so far, the characters had absolutely nothing about them, I could not bring myself to care is they lived or died. Additionally the action to story ratio was way off far to much action far to little story.

You can skip this one

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Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad book but it suffers from being very generic and one dimensional.

Gareth does his best to bring the characters alive but the constant use of "unique" names left me lost trying to figure out who was saying what. It gets better nearer the end, only for the fact that there are less characters to narrate.

This book seems more like a 40k novel rather than a 30k one.

Very predictable and generic

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