Night Lords

Fantastic book, well worth the price

The Knight Lords are some screwed up people but in such a crazy grim future they often seem the most sane, or at least pragmatic of the Chaos forces. It does a great job of showing the terrible state the Chaos Forces should be in because they have no logistics unless you are snuggled up to Abby, wile doing a decent job of explaining why they made their choices. Great protagonist and fun squad members. The humans are also more believable then the usual ones we get. Just people trying to survive in an absolutely insane environment.

Powerful story. Sad and yet hopeful. I admire the author's ability to maintain the thread(s) of the story as well as the nature of the characters. It really drives home the tragic dystopia that is Warhammer 40k.

I’m a huge Warhammer fan and this omnibus is amazing so far. I’ve only finished one of the novels in it, but I feel that’s enough to leave a review. In my opinion, Aaron Demski is one of the better authors and he writes chaos very very well

This is what I've been looking for in a chaos Space Marine book for quite a while and many elements that have been missing from the Warhammer books in general. The book follows Talos a chaos Space Marine of the Night Lords who also is afflicted with the gift of prophecy like his primarch Konrad. The thing I mostly enjoyed was that Talos was a Space Marine from the time of the heresy and Pre-heresy functioning in the modern Warhammer 40k universe. I enjoyed getting the thoughts and comparisons of what the Pre-heresy empire had looked like compared to now and the reactions to everyday imperial citizens to his knowledge of the old empire. Talos is also not the mindless marine we usually see in these books, imperial or chaos. He thinks about the whys and how's of what happened and his place in it. He's definitely evil and flawed but strangely introspective. There are also quite a few chapters of Talos remembering his times with his Primarch Konrad. I always enjoy the fleshing out of the character of the Primarchs and their backgrounds. We also finally get a more human story line with two of his slaves Septimus and Octavia. We see how they filter the experiences of traveling with chaos marines and how they adapt. There is also true romance and loyalty with these two, something else rarely seen in the Warhammer universe. It's a small side story but one that's often overlooked in the novels. I don't read Warhammer for a love story, I read them for battles and duels and cool sci-fi, fantasy but even this universe needs glimpses of the higher human emotions at least for believability. The action is nicely written and paced. We see good space battles and duels. We also see a chapter showing its strengths and weaknesses in battle. The space lords specialized in psychological terror and warfare during the empires expansion and do not fair as well in stand up fights with other chapters. They know this and try to fight accordingly. Reason for four instead of five stars comes down to plot. There wasn't really an overall plot or antagonist to the series. The elves are barely seen even when they are set up as the main antagonist of the last third of the omnibus. It was just a stream of incidents loosely tied together but still fairly cohesive. I also was not impressed with the interactions with Abbadon. Wasn't really true to how he'd been written in the past. Also without having read any of the other Warhammer books I think a reader would be lost. Definitely not the book to start with if wanting to get into the Warhammer books.

I really enjoyed this. The action is solid and the plot is great. I'm keen to read more from this author.

A must read and amazing book, in your hands, before a book you really want to read is shot up to 1000% its original MSRP, like other books from this amazing author. Now I know why ADB is considered one of the best Warhammer authors ever.

Could not ask for more. Pure proof that villains can be incredible protagonists. Must read for anyone interested in the VIII legion.