- The Horus Heresy: Unremembered Empire, Dan Abnett
It's Abnett and the smurfs again. For some reason, Unremembered Empire was re-released in the middle of my reading project, which meant I had to wait for it and pay double the price of a regular Horus Heresy novel. This did make me wonder if it would be worth it.
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I like that not only does the book start with a Shakespeare quotation in the 31st millenium, but that he's also present in the text as Shakespire. I also absolutely love that the title of a ruler of Ultramar is Battle King. It sounds so childish, which means it's perfect for the Ultramarines.
However, there's a lot of other stuff here that I don't love. As with Know No Fear, the Ultramarines are incredibly boring. They're all like utterly average video game NPCs, and the worst part is that Abnett's caught a case of Gav Thorpe and gives us Guilliman's endlessly boring internal monologues. Things spice up a bit when the Lion and his legion show up, but on the whole, the home side is playing yet another snoozer.
In addition to the space marines, John Grammaticus from Legion is here, but sadly his side plot here isn't at all interesting either. He's also teamed up with a sidekick who I swear is the silliest character in the entire Horus Heresy series. He's like a terribly written Marvel UK character, and just takes so much out of the Grammaticus scenes.
I'd say the best part of the book is definitely Konrad Curze, who is honestly shaping up to be one of my favorite primarchs. I am all the way here for Curze butchering smurfs like the Crow. But even his scenes are let down by the frankly silly Cabal stuff, and the even sillier constantly regenerating Vulkan. I'm just going to decide that for canon purposes, none of that happened.
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But here we are: this is the second Dan Abnett book in a row that I do not at all recommend reading. It was definitely not worth the price.
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