Daemon World

Rating:
Summary: Confused, tedious, an finally over.
Review: I've read longer books, but this was the longest 288 pages I've read. The book is confusing - I think Counter had a hard time keeping his own story straight, tedious - enough already with the seemingly endless main battle for the city, and pointless. In the end you're left with questions, a sense of wasted time, and relief that it's over.

Rating:
Summary: Interesting.
Review: If you participate in the tabletop gaming hobby that this novel is based on, you should enjoy this. If you begin reading this book with the same degree of interest in how a Chaos world functions as I did, then hopefully, you will travel through each description with a similar level of patience, objectivity, and warranted awe.

Ben Counter's descriptive style is on par with the best writers Games Workshop/The Black Library have to offer. He was able to develop different characters that drove parallel plotlines and expertly tied them together as the story came to its conclusion. The surreal battle sequences are described with the masterful strokes of a painter, revealing vivid images within the mind's eye. Some of the battle sequences bring to mind a hypothetical synergy of 'Battle of the Pelennor Fields' in the Return of the King movie, drybrushed by Pinhead from 'Hellraiser'. It is epic in scale and for those of you who have sympathetic leanings toward the 40k concept of 'Chaos', you will understand when I say that many passages in the book are equally repulsive/seductive.

Other novels by Ben Counter, include "Grey Knights" or "The Bleeding Chalice". Both are equally as memsmerizing.



Rating:
Summary: WOW! AN EPIC WORLD DESTROYER!
Review: Man, Ben Counter is one visual masterpiece monster writer. This has got to be one of the all-time eye opening, jaw-dropping novels of the year.
Not only was I immensely drawn into the book by it's deliciously and devilishly looking cover and interesting synopsis, but catapulted into a universe and world of monstrous proportions.
This is some story. If you think this is a bad read - then you are a plain idiot, hands down! Ben Counter pulls no punches, takes no prisoners in this massive world building, legendary novel. It reads so beautifully, but after seeing the movie - RETURN OF THE KING - the battles there almost seemed tame in comparison to this one.
Now, I would love to see the battle for the citidal in this book! Rivers and lakes of blood with daemons and mutants out the ass to kill - now that would truly be a sight from hell.
Ben Counter writes and drives a storyline on like a Mack truck through your living room. Not only is he visual, but the story itself unfolds and ends so unexpectantly, it will surely keep you up at night, reading, shaking, and sweating.
A must read for sci-fi/fantasy fans. Ben Counter, you have a new fan.

Rating:
Summary: WOW! AN EPIC WORLD DESTROYER!
Review: Man, Ben Counter is one visual masterpiece monster writer. This has got to be one of the all-time eye opening, jaw-dropping novels of the year.
Not only was I immensely drawn into the book by it's deliciously and devilishly looking cover and interesting synopsis, but catapulted into a universe and world of monstrous proportions.
This is some story. If you think this is a bad read - then you are a plain idiot, hands down! Ben Counter pulls no punches, takes no prisoners in this massive world building, legendary novel. It reads so beautifully, but after seeing the movie - RETURN OF THE KING - the battles there almost seemed tame in comparison to this one.
Now, I would love to see the battle for the citidal in this book! Rivers and lakes of blood with daemons and mutants out the ass to kill - now that would truly be a sight from hell.
Ben Counter writes and drives a storyline on like a Mack truck through your living room. Not only is he visual, but the story itself unfolds and ends so unexpectantly, it will surely keep you up at night, reading, shaking, and sweating.
A must read for sci-fi/fantasy fans. Ben Counter, you have a new fan.

Rating:
Summary: Why, why, why?
Review: Why do I constantly find myself at odds with reviewers of Warhammer 40K novels? The only review of this book as of this date is extemely negative. I really enjoyed this book, especially the Princess Charybdia and her twistedly evil city of pleasures. I've never really expected WH novels to be great Hugo-prize winning novels of Sci-Fi---they're just a lot of fun to read and they put you into a fantastic gloomy surreal mood. Give this novel a chance. I really liked it.

Rating:
Summary: Confused, tedious, an finally over.
Review: Why, Why, Why, is it that if you don't like something someone else does one is a "plain idiot?" Why, why, why is it that if you criticize a book even holding low expectations, they aren't low enough if you still don't like it, and someone else does. I understand that WH40K books aren't great classics of western literature. Too me the book was awful. There were good parts, but I stand by my review.
I've read longer books, but this was the longest 288 pages I've read. The book is confusing - I think Counter had a hard time keeping his own story straight, tedious - enough already with the seemingly endless main battle for the city, and pointless. In the end you're left with questions, a sense of wasted time, and relief that it's over.