Grey Knights

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Summary: Ben Counter Delivers
Review: Any fan of the Warhammer 40k universe should already be familiar with the Grey Knights. And to most of us, they are one of the most interesting yet mysterious Space Marine Chapters in the Imperium. With this in mind, one's expectations would be pretty high when beginning this novel, but once again, Ben Counter delivers a solid and impressive story. Well, for those of you benighted souls who don't recognize the Grey Knights Space Marine Chapter, the Grey Knights are the Chamber Militant of the Inquisition's Ordo Malleus. Translation: They kill daemons for a living! Yes, that's right. Grey Knights are Marines specially trained and outfitted for the sole purpose of killing anything that comes out of the warp. So, of course, any novel about the Grey Knights should have, say, inquisitors? Check. Daemons? Check. Intrigue? Check. Psykers? Check. Ferocious, bloody, detailed, all-out warfare? Check. Yes, that's right, this novel has it all. Ben Counter provides, in my opinion, his best work yet, giving Warhammer 40k fans almost everything they could ask for in one nice, long (400 pages!) novel. Now you might have noticed that I really haven't gone into the details of the plot, but really, think about it. What do you think a novel about the Grey Knights should have? Make a wish list. Then keep it with you while you read this novel, because you're gonna get everything you asked for.

Rating:
Summary: Ben Counter Delivers
Review: Any fan of the Warhammer 40k universe should already be familiar with the Grey Knights. And to most of us, they are one of the most interesting yet mysterious Space Marine Chapters in the Imperium. With this in mind, one's expectations would be pretty high when beginning this novel, but once again, Ben Counter delivers a solid and impressive story. Well, for those of you benighted souls who don't recognize the Grey Knights Space Marine Chapter, the Grey Knights are the Chamber Militant of the Inquisition's Ordo Malleus. Translation: They kill daemons for a living! Yes, that's right. Grey Knights are Marines specially trained and outfitted for the sole purpose of killing anything that comes out of the warp. So, of course, any novel about the Grey Knights should have, say, inquisitors? Check. Daemons? Check. Intrigue? Check. Psykers? Check. Ferocious, bloody, detailed, all-out warfare? Check. Yes, that's right, this novel has it all. Ben Counter provides, in my opinion, his best work yet, giving Warhammer 40k fans almost everything they could ask for in one nice, long (400 pages!) novel. Now you might have noticed that I really haven't gone into the details of the plot, but really, think about it. What do you think a novel about the Grey Knights should have? Make a wish list. Then keep it with you while you read this novel, because you're gonna get everything you asked for.

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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: First let me say that the story is excellent. Very entertaining and very gripping. The plot twists are dynamic and not quite so obvious and predictabe. The character development was exceptional for a Warhammer 40K novel. Most Warhammer 40k characters are about as 2 dimensional as possible without falling off the page, but these characters actually had something to them. The depth of the plot, for a Warhammer novel, was also excellent. It is obvious that Mr. Counter put alot of effort into going beyond the typical hack and it paid off wonderfully. The story had the proper "feel" of the Warhammer 40K universe as well. Some authors do not capture that. Mr. Counter pulled it all together in an excellent novel that I highly recommend.

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Summary: A Good Read...
Review: I liked this book a lot. It's my first Ben Counter novel, but won't be my last. Well written and reasonably well paced.

My only gripe is that the battles scenes seemd a bit too perfunctory to me, as if the author was going through the motions just to get past them and on to the more interesting parts, such as character development and backstory (which are both done well I think). Battle scenes lacked real intensity and emotion in my view.

But nevertheless, I still recommend it.

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Summary: Another superb book by Ben Counter
Review: If you ever played the game Warhammer 40,000 or read any of the books based on the game then this book is an excellent read. This book just isn't about your run of the mil Space Marines, its about the Grey Knights. These guys are the elites of the elite. Psycho doctrinated from youth to be the unwaivering servants of the Imperium, to right the most grevious of wrongs, to kill the most foul things that ever existed... Deamons. To anyone who knows the game, Deamons were the meanest thing to exist untill these guys came along.

Written like his previous books (Soul Drinkers and its sequel Bleeding Chalice) this has all that any Warhammer 40K fan will want. Action, adventure, mystery, gory details, and the triumph of good over evil no matter the costs. It begins with a epic battle and ends with an epic battle. It gives you the run down on the Ordo Malleus and what their job is in the grand scale of the Imperium. It keeps you on your toes with a few twists and turns that while are almost expected are suprising at the same time. All in all a very good book. I had a hard time putting it down.

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Summary: For all-out space action, this book does have it all!
Review: Seemingly from the very beginning of this book in a series of books regarding the Grey Knights (futuristic space Marines) ferocious fighting against "daemons", etc., is in place and in your face (in a good way). I am not as familiar with this series as some, so I'll be back-ordering my way to the very origins of these Grey Knights and their space opera action. I eagerly add this particular copy to my other sci-fi books of old and new: "Stranger in a Strange Land", "Puppet Masters", "Foundation", "2001", "2010", "Rendezvous with Rama", "Ringworld", all the "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" books, as well as books as new to the genre as "Advent of the Corps" and others.