Dull - Rated 
I know this is sci-fi but a lot of what is in the novel beggars belief. Which is a shame considering the concept was promising enough, i.e. a Chapter that is neither for the Imperium nor Chaos.
A couple of examples: Sarpedon goes head to head with the Chapter Master, gets his head handed to him, sprouts new trotters in the nick of time and gives the Chapter Master a righteous beating. Tellos turns bad boy and becomes invulnerable.
Suspend belief all ye who enter here.
I didn't know that a book could be this bad - Rated 
Being an avid fan of the warhammer 40k novels, I thought I couldn't go wrong with this. Especially when it was recommended to me by a worker at games workshop. The stories are predictable and dull, with basically the same thing happening throughout all three books. The spelling and grammar are also awful. I thought editors were supposed to sort that stuff out.
The Soul Drinkers Omnibus - Rated 
The main point to note about the Soul Drinkers series, above all others, are that they are quite different from all the other 40k tie-in novels. Most of the time they will deal with the fighting forces of the Imperium, or other times with the alien or Chaos-worshiping armies they fight.
Here, the stars of the book choose neither side, fighting in the grey area between, for a cause more sympathetic to the modern reader than the grim, no-prisoners, ends-justify-the-means approach that coats the rest of the dark millennium. This originality is very refreshing.
Ben Counter handles the pacing well, never allowing the plot to get bogged down for too long in one place before delivering another action set-piece. On the flipside, character development is pretty slow, but still miles ahead of most of the rest of BL Publishing's output. And really, it is the scope of the ideas on display here that are the real attraction, before even the protagonists that wade through them with chainsword and bolter.
All around, one of the better 40k books, in my opinion, but for those perfectly at home with the 'generic' style of the other series may find it a little jarring.
Three books for a recent bookworm - Rated 
I am a fairly new bookworm, and generally I like scifi/fantasy.
I grabbed this predominantely due to the price and I used to be into W40k stuff when I was a kid.
The first book was a stuggle for me and I ended up putting it down for a 'fairly' long time, while being about one third of the way through. After finishing Horus Rising, (with a renewed interest), I attacked it with a new spirit of Grr-ness; then I got hooked. It was awesome! I thought it was quite intense, but still quite good too. I slipped easily into the second book and ratted through that while getting impatient with some of the drawn out fight scenes, which I think is both a good thing (showing it's fun), but also annoying.
The third book I was a bit of a dissapointment (it was a stuggle like the first, something to do with 'the enemies' facing the Soul Drinkers, but also felt like it was dragged out too much, and a bit more like I was watching a game of pong). The only consolidation I got was finishing it, and also knowing what happened.
The first chapter of the next book looks cool. Although from the third book, I'm dubious to buy it! Can't say never though..
Great Book! - Rated 
Read this a while back. But still think back to this set of books as they are really good read.
The only 40k books I have read since that are better/on par with Soul Drinkers are Dan Ablett's!
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