![]() ![]() This felt like a pay project for him that he really didn't have his heart in. In fact, several of his novels are some of my favorite in the Black Library collection. ![]() What truly boggles my mind is that Graham McNeill is usually not this dull and and boring of a writer. I honestly can't remember being as disappointed with the end of a book since I read Stephen King's Tommyknockers twenty years ago. There's nothing new here, there's nothing shocking here, there's no big reveal that made me gasp and say "I never would have thought that about the Mechanicum!" In fact, I think you'd be better off buying the Mechanicum rule book for 40k and reading it, even if you don't play the game, because it has more back story and lore than this novel. Lastly, you don't really learn anything new about Mars that you didn't already know tangentially from reading other books in the black library or playing the game and owning the rule books. The morality of some characters seem to whiplash between good and evil sometimes in the same chapter. Many character motivations are sketchy at best, with only the loosest of reasons given for them to do whatever it is they're doing in any given scene, with most of those motivations being "I trust/love/believe in/respect/honor the protagonist" for nebulous reasons. You'll be at a high point in the action and ripped away to suddenly be introduced to a new character 80% of the way into the book just for that character to vanish again without a trace by the next chapter. Then she simply exits the story near the end and isn't seen from again so you spend the last 10% of the book reading about the inconsequential actions of a bunch of side characters, none of which have any positive influence on the outcome of the plot. Everyone loves her and everyone treats her with unearned respect. ![]() ![]() Some powers simply manifest right when she needs them to fix whatever situation they're in. She pops in knowing everything and solving everyone's problems with her near godlike special powers. She doesn't grow at all during the story. This book is a disjointed mess, with an unlikeable prototypical Mary Sue main character, entirely forgettable supporting cast, terrible pacing and an ending that settled. ![]()
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