Deathfire: The Horus Heresy, Book 32

This one is a refreshing change from much of the HH (although I have enjoyed most of them so far). I don't think a shot is fired in anger in the first 55% of the book, according to my kindle page counter thing. Most of the conflict is psychological. The buildup to the conclusion is very satisfying. Some of the side characters have fun stories - especially the guy with the huge collection of arcane knowledge and a giant crazy board. That guy and his arc entertained me. One issue, more with the series, is that the order in which you read the books can make things odd or confusing. In this book, two of the more important characters are adversaries, but in a different book, they are allies... and I unwittingly read them in the wrong order. Not a huge deal, but something that happens with a series of this nature.

Reads like a screenplay. I like it a lot. Can’t wait to read the next. Hope it is as good or better.

Good book, but Numeon is kinda a douche. They try and make him seem loyal and stoic and steadfast, but the writing just makes him seem like a douchebag and unlikable.

Vulkan is one of my favorite Primarchs and I've been waiting quite a while to get this book. My only dislike is that Black Library is taking so long to put these books out in mass market. Mass Market was the only available thing when I started buying the Horus Heresy series and now that they are doing hardback, trade paperback, and lastly mass market it's almost 2 years between release and mm. Other than that, fantastic story.

This book picks up where Vulkan left off on Macragge. While it is a bit slow to start, once it gets going it really takes off and you want to keep reading just one more chapter, which is easy to do as the way Nick Kyme writes (chapters are relatively brief) the chapters almost will you to read another before putting it down so you can finally go to bed. As you get answers to the questions you begin the book with, new ones arise to take their place and you're left wanting more.

This is the story of the Salamanders, by all rights a Chapter that should be dead. With their dead primarch, they try to get home to make the impossible possible. It's a doomed story, with the ending that has to happen.

Numeon is my new hero. This was fun. Salamanders go hard. Might be my favorite legion for now. Looking forward to the next one.

I wish someone would let Nick Kyme know he isn't Shakespeare. This book is such a slog. The writing is overwrought and badly done. His archaic way of writing is affected, not dramatic. I'm not asking him to dumb it down, I'm asking him to just tell the story. The author should have a little more discipline. This was pretty much unreadable but I want to have read the entire series so suffered through. The story is such a good one, too. It's a shame it got this treatment.

I like the Salamanders but this book was unnecessarily long considering there are hundreds of pages centred only on the good guys running around with a corpse while being chased by baddies. At least the pacing of this book was decent though.

Das Cover zeigt mehr als deutlich, wohin die Reise geht... durch Feuer und Flamme, was jedoch für einen Bruder Salamander keine Schwierigkeit darstellen sollte... Das Buch knüpft an Ereignissen, insbesondere aus "Vulcan lives", aber auch in Auszügen an "The unremembered empire" an. Die Salamander waren ihrem Glück, ihren Primarchen Vulkan wieder unter sich zu wissen, so nahe, und die Geschehnisse machten dies zunichte. Nun heißt es für sie, mit dem Leichnam ihres Primarchen zurück nach Nocturne, um ihn angemessen zur letzten Ruhe zu betten.... doch das Chaos und andere Fraktionen haben da ein Wort mitzureden und so gestaltet sich die Reise zu einer kleinen Odyssee, irgendwo zwischen Charybis und Skylla. Interessant waren die Eindrücke vom Heimatplaneten der Salamanders, der in dieser Tiefe noch nicht beleuchtet wurde. Einige Ereignisse an Bord des Schiffes sind wenig überraschend (aber was überrascht noch tiefgreifend an möglichen Kämpfen nach mehr als 30 Bänden?) und stellenweise zäh. Das Ende des Buches jedoch stellt eine Überraschung dar, die Offenheit desselbigen umso mehr.... aber so steht in Aussicht, dass es dieser Handlungsstrang noch weiter erzählt wird...

It took me a while to finish this book, I often left it for days before going back to it. I think it was frustration due to the amount of setbacks and bad fortune Numeon faced on his epic journey back to the Salamander homeworld. Whomever reads this book will go through the same emotions as the main character and come out the other side ready for the next chapter in this saga. Brilliant book!

Tres bonne reference dans l hérésie d’Horus. Action pendant une majorité du livre, j ai beaucoups aimé.

I Salamander duramente colpiti dalle forze eretiche tentano di riportare il corpo del loro primarca sul pianeta Natale sperando così di farlo risorgere mentre qualcuno trama nell'ombra per distruggere la legione..Buon romanzo che segue le vicende successive al disastro della zona di atterraggio e la fondazione del secondo impero e amplia la conoscenza di una delle legioni più peculiari