Know No Fearis an action-packed entry in the Horus Heresy that moves the story forward in impactful ways. Abnett is masterful and writing these kinds of scenes and it’s nice to see him apply himself with such vigor to it. Whether it’s visions of massive spaceships slugging it out and being boarded or action on the ground, each scene is pulse-thumping action throughout. Ultimately, though, the draw of the novel is to read about some serious, powerful fighting between space marines and heretics. Whether it’s from members of the Ultramarines bonding as they fight daemonic forces or looks into the Word Bearers’ side of the conflict, there is quite a bit going on here. The novel does have character development and plot throughout the story. The scenes are utter chaos start to finish, with massive spaceships blasting apart, daemons being fought in corridors, brother turning against brother, and almost relentless destruction being waged across the planet and above it.
They don’t know about the heresy spreading across various parts of the Empire, and the Word Bearers launch an unprovoked pre-emptive attack on Calth, one of the worlds of the Ultramarines. Here we have the Ultramarines caught unaware. Anyway, all of that said, it was actually quite nice to read Know No Fear, which is basically a lengthy, massive battle with pieces of plot intermixed in it. My problems with Prospero Burns wasn’t that it didn’t have enough action rather, as I point out in my review, it’s that the book is advertised as something it manifestly is not.
Basically, he says that after some reader complaints about Prospero Burns, he felt cathartic burning everything in Know No Fear with an epic slugfest of battle that is largely unrelenting through the whole book. Please DO NOT SPOIL later books in the series.ĭan Abnett wrote a little bit after the end of the book in the edition I have. There will be SPOILERS from the books discussed as well as previous books in the series. I’m reading the series in publication order unless otherwise noted. With more than 50 novels and many, many short stories, there will be a lot of posts in this series (I doubt I’ll get to all the short stories). I thought it would be awesome to blog the series as I go. I know I’m late to the party, but I finally decided to start reading the “Horus Heresy,” a huge series of novels set in the universe of Warhammer 40,000 (though it is set much earlier than the year 40,000).
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