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Title: Honour Guard by Dan Abnett ISBN: 0-7434-1167-6 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: It wasn't bad
Comment: It was a good book, but the ending was much too rushed. Another chapter of epilogue would have been great. Only thing I can think is that he knew he would be writing more in the series and didn't think a proper ending was necessary. The tank battles in this book were sweet, but for infantry fighting the Guns of Tanith was a better book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Deus ex Dei Machina
Comment: My only complaint is the climax of the story, the point to which the entire novel's plot has been building, takes about a paragraph to resolve. I kept thinking...thats it? Thats all it took? I loved the story up until that point, and the books following were up to the usual standard of great action, well defined characters, and breakneck pacing.
Rating: 4
Summary: Killer Talent!
Comment: Jeff Barden's review here summarizes this excellent book perfectly. The fourth in the Gaunt's Ghosts series, Honour Guard puts a new twist on the saga -- and that's what's so great about Dan Abnett. He could easily rest on his laurels and crank out the sort of flat sci-fi that Gibson once referred to as the "golden ghetto," shoddy pulp that sells simply 'cause it's sci-fi, or in this case, sci-fi game fiction. But with each novel, you can tell that Abnett is stretching himself, trying to grow as a writer and to take his stories in new directions.
After finishing Honour Guard, I tried to read Gav Thorpe's 13th Legion. I put it back on the shelf after about 20 pages. It was a joke compared to Abnett. I may pick it up again, when I get tired of waiting for a new Abnett, but I won't be fooled -- I'll be reading it to keep myself immersed in the 40K universe, not 'cause I'm expecting really good sci-fi. For that, I'll wait for Gaunt's Ghosts Book Five.
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Title: Ghostmaker by Dan Abnett ISBN: 0671784102 Publisher: Games Workshop Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Necropolis by Dan Abnett ISBN: 0743411595 Publisher: Games Workshop Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Sabbat Martyr by Dan Abnett, Marc Gascoigne ISBN: 0743443608 Publisher: Games Workshop Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Straight Silver by Dan Abnett ISBN: 1844160823 Publisher: Games Workshop Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: First & Only by Dan Abnett ISBN: 0671783750 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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