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To ask other readers questions about Deus Encarmine , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Deus Encarmine Blood Angels 1. May 20, Dylan Murphy rated it really liked it Shelves: warhammerk , reading-challenge I personally thought this was an awesome novel.
James Swallow does a fantastic job at really building tension. There were a good number of times when things happened that were completely unexpected to me. Though I would say that the best part of this novel is the main characters thoughts and reactions to the events unfolding around him. I heard a lot of bad things about this series and James Swa I personally thought this was an awesome novel.
I heard a lot of bad things about this series and James Swallow's writing, but I really enjoyed it. Jul 09, Michael Da Silva rated it liked it. Deus Encarmine is a Space Marine action book that does exactly what it says on the tin. There are battles, interspersed with a few scenes of exposition until the next action scene. I have to admit that the thing is a little boring, in the sense that by the end of the book I was shocked we had already reached the end because very little had actually happened.
Though it is only the first half of the series, so I am certain that it will wrap up a bit more in the next instalment. What I did really enjo Deus Encarmine is a Space Marine action book that does exactly what it says on the tin. What I did really enjoy about the novel was a bit of a trek back into the past of 40k, when everything was a bit less GRIM and things had a bit more character. Sure, the Space Marines here act much more like regular soldiers than brainwashed super-warrior knights.
Sure, a battle in the book in which "a few hundred Blood Angels die" would have been a Chapter-scarring event that would have merited more than a couple devotional prayers.
Sure, the Word Bearers are hilariously cartoon villains with three tongues, raspy voices and no reservations about backstabbing their companions. That is what I liked most about this story.
Back to a simpler time when 40k took itself a little less seriously, and when whacky stuff was the norm. Overall a decent read for a 40k fan, but not much besides that. Aug 04, Andrew Ziegler rated it liked it. Amazing battles. Two books of practically nothing but hardcore warfare. The characterations of the marines was a bit off to me Apr 04, Dave Collins rated it really liked it.
There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods. This is the kind of 40k fiction that originally made me swear off anything longer than a page in a Codex.
I am, however duty bound to read the rest of the series since I'm a Blood Angels player. Jan 07, Bridgit O'Connell rated it really liked it Shelves: warhammercollection. Overall the world-building is the most enjoyable part of this book.
However, the characters are compelling in their own right. I am interested to continue the series and find out everyone's motivation involved in the destruction of the Blood Angels. What is Stele's, Sachiel's, and Arkio's end goal? I am excited to find out. I definitely recommend if you are a fan of Warhammer 40, already, but also, if like me, you are just now discovering the world and are hoping to learn a little more of the Overall the world-building is the most enjoyable part of this book.
I definitely recommend if you are a fan of Warhammer 40, already, but also, if like me, you are just now discovering the world and are hoping to learn a little more of the lore, atmosphere,and goal of play--I think this is a worthwhile read. It is also just fun if you like Military Sci-Fi.
One of the best GW books i have read. Deus Encarmine is action packed and superbly written. The descriptions are vivid and it's characters are as intriguing as it's perpetually thickening plot.
Falls short in its pacing at times and relies on cliches a little too often, but I would recommend to fans of Warhammer 40k every time. Nov 05, Mary Catelli rated it really liked it Shelves: military-fiction , sf-interstellar , sf-far-future. I reviewed this in the combined form The Blood Angels Omnibus. Jun 24, Joel Peterson rated it really liked it. A blood spilling, bone snapping, skull crunching, viscera tearing good time. Being a newbie in many ways to the universe of 40k except for some basic knowledge, it was a harder sell - many things are left undescribed, such as weaponry, vehicles, and even basic premises, but it's to be expected when jumping into a long running franchise with decades of history, and hundreds of books.
That said, I was engaged by the martyrdom plot, which offered a nice simplistic hook to drag me into the next nove A blood spilling, bone snapping, skull crunching, viscera tearing good time. That said, I was engaged by the martyrdom plot, which offered a nice simplistic hook to drag me into the next novel. But the real treat here, simply, was the endless pages of descriptive, gore spilling violence.
The language used here is absurdly descriptive. There were one or two times where some repetitive descriptions were used, sometimes on the same or next page the Rhino "biting into" the ground, a great description, but not when it is used in nearly the very next paragraph and anyone looking for a story transcending the realm of pulp fiction might be disappointed by the plot, which was spread thin even over the or so pages that were here.
At least as far as the Omnibus is concerned which is how I read this story. But let's be honest, if you are reading a 40k novel about genetically mutated space marines with guns that fire exploding shells, your expectation is likely more along the lines of a paragraph explaining how blood sprayed from the arteries of the Blood Angels' kill, and how they drank it thirstily. In the grim dark future, there is of course, only war.
I paid the price of admission expecting an action movie novelization, and I got it. I am looking forward to the next novel, to see where the story takes Rafaen, Arkio, and the insidious antagonist from Deus Encarmine.
And if it has even half the brutality this book contained, I will be content. It loses a star only because the action can only be sustained for just as long as it was without getting tiring, even for a guy who craves it when the plot is this paper thin. But what there is, was a great time, even if it felt like it could have been a bit more depthful.
Apr 30, Le monde de Stryx rated it really liked it. Jan 23, Jake Hudson rated it really liked it. At first I found it a little slow but defined picked up the more for me the more I read.
Dislike the inquisitor a lot and crossing fingers he gets his due. Overall really enjoy James swallows work and this is another to add to that statement. Apr 04, Bradley rated it really liked it. Grim and fun. The mines were complex and intricate devices, so his Techmarines had explained to him; they possessed a logic brain capable of determining the difference between an inert form like an asteroid and an active craft like a manned warship.
He detected pieces of an ork rok and other remains that might have been from reavers or perhaps an Imperial ship caught when the Word Bearers took the planet for themselves. Shenlong had become enemy territory, a vast trap for the unwary. From a great distance, he heard his own synthetic voice issue out from a throat voxcoder. All exterior running lights are to be doused.
All hatches sealed. All zero critical systems are to be quiescent. Ideon knew that some of this brethren pitied him. They saw the crippled old warhorse bolted into his command chair, never to stand again or to rip the unholy apart with his bare hands. When Bellus killed an enemy vessel, Ideon knew it as if it were he that cracked open the hull and sucked.
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