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  • Slaves to Darkness

  • The Horus Heresy, Book 51
  • By: John French
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
  • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,171 ratings)

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Slaves to Darkness

By: John French
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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After a long and gruelling conflict, the traitors at last close upon Terra. But time is dwindling for an attack.

Both Guilliman and the Lion are returning with all haste, and their armies could turn the tide. The hosts of the Warmaster must unite, for only then can they attack the Throneworld itself. While Mortarion is sent on ahead as the fleet’s vanguard, it falls to Lorgar and Perturabo to marshal Fulgrim and Angron, both now elevated to daemonhood and perhaps beyond even the will of the Warmaster to command. But Horus lies wounded, and, as the greatest battle the galaxy has ever know looms, it is up to Maloghurst to hold his fractious Legion together and to wrench Horus himself from the edge of oblivion.

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Well Written, Well Read

No complaints. This was a darn good Horus Heresy entry from beginning to end. Its importance might be tantamount to the first 4 novels.

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Amazing Novel

This book definitely was what it was supposednto be. the culmination of the Horus Heresy and the gravity it brought to the mustering of the traitor legions right before there assualt on Holy Terra. The interactions between all the Primarchs alone was worth it.

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wonderful storytelling from author and reader

this was a very interesting insight into the forces of chaos before the siege of terra. I love the play between Brothers and the different factions of the traitor legions. recommend highly to any 40K reader

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so awesome

I've been waiting for this book to come out for months. Not only was it worth the wait, it was better than I could have imagined. If you skip to the end if the series this one is still a must!

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John French Does It Again

A masterful look at the traitor legions on the eve of the Battle of Terra!

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To Terra

Pretty good overall. Jumps around a lot but that is to be expected considering all of the story lines. Great narration as always. Full if traitor filth, deffinate prelude to the end.

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poor Lorgar

I really don't like what they did to Lorgar's character. they made him out to be a scheming fool.

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excellent

enjoyed the corralling of the demon primarch in preparation for the push on terra. good listen

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great

loved it, great set of storylines coming to a close with an amazing climax

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we get the point, but the book lags a bit.

John French has a number of good Horus heresy books. Fear To Tread is a very good horse heresy book that I enjoyed a great deal. This book is not that good.

Jonathan Keeble reading of the book was excellent, is his work always is. I don't think that there has been an audio production featuring John Keeble that has not been excellent. the range of acted voices which he can provide is impressive.

the challenge that John French faced with this book is to take a lot of characters which are not very likeable and make a story with them that makes a person want to actually follow it.

by the end of the story, the tempo and events certainly roll to an impressive climax, but in the meantime there are serious legs and massive interest displacement when the different threads of the story are picked up and put down.

each story thread in and of itself is pretty compelling and interesting, despite characters that are generally unlikable normally.

my chief criticism is the complete disconnect between different story threads.

It is very difficult to make characters such as Angron or Perturabo interesting or likable, but French succeeds.

French succeeds in making the most unagreeable Primark in do a hero that you pull for throughout the story. for veterans of Warhammer 40K, that is a massive achievement.

the real main success of the book is the Gathering of the traitor Legions on Ullanor.

how did it happen? by what means were these disparate forces brought together and galvanized?

this really is what the book achieves.

I felt that the tempo could have used help.

the ranking of four out of five stars is because of the challenge of the task.

French made all of the disparate threads a single novel and all of the unlovable, irritating villains interesting and compelling characters.

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