Descent of Angels - Mitchel Scanlon

Descent of Angels

ByMitchel Scanlon

  • Release Date: 2014-04-24
  • Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 255 Ratings

Description

The planet of Caliban exists much as it has for thousands of years – the knightly orders protect the common people, fighting back the beasts that lurk in the depths of the seemingly endless forests. Young Zahariel and Nemiel aspire to join the greatest of the orders, led by the example of mighty Lion El’Jonson and his vision of a peaceful and unified world. But the coming of the Imperium brings new concerns and a new destiny for the Lion as part of the Great Crusade, and the sons of Caliban must decide if they will follow him to glory among the stars.

Reviews

  • Missed opportunities

    3
    By compeyson150
    The pacing of the beginning to middle was too slow. The dialogue was not great throughout. There were a lot of missed opportunities. The characters lacked the gravitas that the characters of the prior books had. Everything after endriago was pretty good. The prologue and epilogue were trash.

  • Kind of stumbled in the second half

    4
    By Jasklihani
    For a book that relished every detail, the change in the Lion near the end of the novel feels relatively unexplained. Spoilers: Particularly with attias and eliath like why do they deserve his scorn? Like I could zahariel and luther because he might've seen through the details they left out regarding the bomb, and although it seems a bit odd that he would admonish the forces that just saved his life by sending israfel to caliban especially considering that israfel is not a calabinite I can see the line of reason, but are attias and eliath just in trouble because they are friends with zahariel? Why is nemiel still in favor? What happened to all the good will that the lion had for zahariel prior? Is this intended to be the mystery at the end of the book? If it is explained later in the series and this was all intentional that i fell hook line and sinker for then I will change my review to 5 stars.

  • Insightful

    5
    By Angela Kuri
    So I’m sure you’ll see the reviews saying this is unnecessary, but this is the first book in the series to really delve into what life was like on a Pre-imperium world, and not just any, but one that a Primarch was on. Getting to see how The Lion rises to prominence, what it’s like for humans, the Emperor himself makes an appearance, which frankly I’d read an entire book just because he shows up. You see the foundations of important players later on, so it’s a lot of groundwork, personally I view it as well worth it. Also

    SPOILERS

    This is the first sign of Tzeentch in the Horus Heresy series, we’ve had Nurgle and Slaanesh, now I’m curious how long before Khorne happens (first time reader here)

  • What is this story doing here?

    1
    By AFR Proteus
    This story was listed as next in the series of the Horus Heresy. It has NOTHING to do with that. I forced myself almost halfway through this D&D adventure before giving up.

    Not only did it not extend the ongoing storyline of the previous books in the HH series, it actually acted as a circuit breaker, taking me completely out of the ongoing storyline without giving me anything in return.

    Oh, and it's badly written as well, a walking catalogue of philosophizing monologues, flat dialog, and cliched "action" segments. This really and truly has nothing to do with the HH and very, very little to do with WH40K.

  • Terrible

    1
    By sweet T boogie
    Terrible

  • Meh

    3
    By Alhazred01
    I have read nearly every single 40k book black library has released in the past 10-15 years. And I must say, both of the dark angels books in the horus heresy series were two of the most dissappointing. It was well written, and the second time I read them I liked them a LITTLE more than the first time, but they were far from the best. Most of the events of this book take place before the emperor even arrives on the planet and meets his son, so a vast majority of the book is battles with essentially industrial weaponry, though tword the end in really gets more into the 40k universe. I was very disappointed with these 2 books, regardless.

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