13th Legion

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Summary: Ready to read the best book in 40k?
Review: At first it was hard to understand mainly because its from a Imperial Guard Penial Leigon. But i then found my self hooked into the book. Battles and Life and Death situations kept me reading and reading. Looking forward to reading Kill Team. This book is a must especailly because of Lorii!! Once you begin reading 'bout her you will never stop reading!

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Summary: Dude, where's my arm?
Review: Bloody carnage? Hopeless battles against impossible odds? Violent psychopaths let loose on the battlefield? Yes, this book has all these things, and manages to weave it all into a pretty fun plot with interesting characters! Our protagonist is Kage, the psychopathic member of the 13th penal legion, a unit led by the mysterious Colonol on an endless succession of suicide missions. Quite the departure from Dan Abnett's more conventional infantry stories, this book is all about the anti-hero.

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Summary: If only there was a sequal...
Review: I really wish there was a sequal to this...

Anyway, this is a great book about a Penal Legion called the Last Chancers. While reading this book I was thinking about giving it 4 stars since the battles didn't seem to have a purpose, but at the end it all comes together and makes sense. It is nice reading a book that doesn't have a good law-abiding hero for the main character, and this guy knocks out people's teeth, isn't afraid of killing people, and as I said, is in a Penal Legion.

My favorite character has to be the Tech-priest, though. Gav does a great job describing the member of the Adeptus Mechanicus, and I am going to "borrow" the description for a Tech-Priest in the Inquisitor game.

Rating:
Summary: If only there was a sequal...
Review: I really wish there was a sequal to this...

Anyway, this is a great book about a Penal Legion called the Last Chancers. While reading this book I was thinking about giving it 4 stars since the battles didn't seem to have a purpose, but at the end it all comes together and makes sense. It is nice reading a book that doesn't have a good law-abiding hero for the main character, and this guy knocks out people's teeth, isn't afraid of killing people, and as I said, is in a Penal Legion.

My favorite character has to be the Tech-priest, though. Gav does a great job describing the member of the Adeptus Mechanicus, and I am going to "borrow" the description for a Tech-Priest in the Inquisitor game.

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Summary: pretty good book
Review: If you like the Gaunt's Ghosts series of books, this novel is right up your alley. It seems to have the same spirit and breakneck pacing as the Ghosts series w/ a new set of characters.

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Summary: Pretty Good, except...
Review: In my opinion, this is the best of the Warhammer 40,000 novels produced by the Black Library thus far. Games Workshop's publishing branch has really outdone itself with the 13th Legion; the novel contains everything that made its predecessors good and takes these qualities a step further. It has the action and atmosphere that one can find in the Gaunt's Ghosts series but this is coupled with the sort of character development that we saw in Eye of Terror. The novel is told from the 1st person point of view and this does a lot to improve the literary quality. Admittedly, the novel is still 'pulp fiction' but it's a definitely more mature incarnation. I doubt anyone is looking for some profound existential comments from a Warhammer novel, but by the same token I think we as readers require the talent of a skilled writer. Gav definitely comes through; he puts to use all the talent that brought us so many other things over the years (Games, supplements, colour text, etc...) and applies it to a novel with spectacular results.

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Summary: The Epitome
Review: In my opinion, this is the best of the Warhammer 40,000 novels produced by the Black Library thus far. Games Workshop's publishing branch has really outdone itself with the 13th Legion; the novel contains everything that made its predecessors good and takes these qualities a step further. It has the action and atmosphere that one can find in the Gaunt's Ghosts series but this is coupled with the sort of character development that we saw in Eye of Terror. The novel is told from the 1st person point of view and this does a lot to improve the literary quality. Admittedly, the novel is still 'pulp fiction' but it's a definitely more mature incarnation. I doubt anyone is looking for some profound existential comments from a Warhammer novel, but by the same token I think we as readers require the talent of a skilled writer. Gav definitely comes through; he puts to use all the talent that brought us so many other things over the years (Games, supplements, colour text, etc...) and applies it to a novel with spectacular results.

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Summary: Pretty Good, except...
Review: This was a really good book, my rating should be 4.5 stars, but that is not available. The reason I gave it 4 stars is because it is more or less a bunch of battles that the Last Chancers fight in, with no real purpose other than to show what the 40k universe is like. It all has a purpose at the end, but up until then I was left wondering what the actual story of the book was.