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Anyway, the book has quite a number of basically superfluous battle scenes that do nothing to advance any plotlines, only show that Choas is bad and evil - which might be ok if we haven't had to muddle through 60+ books establishing that fact. Also, Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith would be proud with the sheer amount of mind-breaking, sanity-blasting eldritch vocabulary thrown at us readers. Especially when it comes to Choas, which faction, it bears repeating, is Eeeeevil. The sheer density of prose in this book makes it boring and awkward to read. Lots and nothing happens because of it. It could comfortably be half as long and still make perfect sense. So much of the series is disposable bloat. Explosions and gore. This isn't. It's written in a fascinating way. It's told like a Viking saga or an epic poem. For the first time in 50 od books, this feels like the mythological epic the series was sold as.
As per my main prediction but Ollanius kills the Emperor, because the Emperor is going to kill Horus and doom humanity. The custodians in the foreground are about the same size as the ones on top of the throne, while the emperor looks like a titan Another bloated entry in the Siege of Terra series, featuring ADHD storytelling, glacial pacing and a meandering plot.Warhammer Community: The (Beginning of the) End Is Nigh – The Final Siege of Terra Story Is Revealed (posted 31 August 2022) (last accessed 4 October 2023)
The Emperor, a shining beacon of hope to many, an unscrupulous tyrant to others, must die. The lives of uncountable numbers have been extinguished and even primarchs, once thought immortal, have been laid low. The Emperor's dream lies in tatters, but there remains a sliver of hope. The POVs of Malcador and the Primarchs are somewhat interesting (no mean feat after 60+ books), and at least we do not get any new out-of-character revelations or derailings on that front. And the benefit of splitting the novel into two rather than just calling them two separate novels is... what?My issue with the Siege has always been bloat. Erda is a prime example: did we need another Perpetual, especially such a prominent one, parachuted into the narrative? Do we need all these characters flouncing about on all their individual sub-plots, still dangling as we move towards the sharp end? My praise of Echoes is that it's an incredibly tightly-focused book. It is, in short, a fantastic addition to the ethereal concept of what the Siege series should have been. The construction of the book is killer. It drives home its core concepts, it's sharply-edited, it is focused on giving the audience a brutal contrast and comparison of two Legions and their Primarchs at the very end of the war. In a perfect universe, that it ends as the shields go down, is genuinely a perfect place to end. We don't need to know how, or why, only that the final assault is about to happen, the last, desperate gambit for the last, final book of the series. In a perfect universe, every Siege book would have been like this, sharpening the narrative edge down to a singular point, giving us a whole book that could deal solely with the Vengeful Spirit. The arch-traitor Horus Lupercal's forces have bombarded Terra and the Imperial Palace lies in ruins. With the Emperor's dream in tatters, he seeks only to rob Chaos of its ultimate victory…
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