Wolf's Honour (Warhammer 40,000 Novels) | List Price: $7.99
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
thank god the series is done being destroyed. [Posted on 2008-04-22]
Lightner just barely redeemed "themselves" with the final installment of the space wolf series. After destroying Kings work with the past couple novels they redeemed themselves ever so slightly with Wolfs Honour with somewhat better writing. If you can over look the over use of phrases, they easily called Ragnar the Young Space Wolf 20 times on a single page and that was only after randomly introducing it in a paragraph 4 chapters in and confusing the young space wolf with Harald and Ragnar in the paragraph several times before figuring out they wanted to reference Ragnar as the young space wolf which by this time he really isn' t. Then they managed to use every cliché movie scene a person could think of. And even after all this Ragnar barely manages to survive the book more out of simple dumb luck and the fact that he is the "movie star" of the novel and can't be killed. Theres so many inconsistencies that its hard to overlook them. The space wolves can be hit with artillery and still live but a single bolt from a bolt pistol to a thousand son chaos marine will drop him. Just read this book to finish the series but be ready for a frustrating read. Good luck and sorry King I didn't think it could get any worse. Dan Abnett here I come, I need something to reinvigorate my love for the Black Library.
Barely a library reading [Posted on 2008-08-02]
Thank goodness this is the end. Made the mistake of buying the past 2 books written by them. There is no soul or personality to Ragnar or any of the main characters. The battles against the gene stealers and Chaos forces are vague action sequences, having been written in better detail by other authors. If you have ever played any W40k game and can describe the action to someone else in 30 words or less, then you have that same story-telling skills as the authors regarding battle sequences.
Sternmark's and Sven's sudden decision to have a leisurely walk back to Imperial lines (p299) after running miles in a matter of minutes was very out of character for anyone in combat. Space Marines are too tired and decide to walk less than 100m to cover while under artillery fire??? Duh...
The authors should not be allowed to write any more novels based on anyone else's characters. They should only create and write their own. Big mistake by Games Workshop in allowing someone else to attempt to fill in where William King left off. The authors' storylines are formulaic and predictable. This was not enjoyable. Avoid reading.
Wolf's Honour [Posted on 2008-08-06]
One of the best of the series. Excellent reading, flows very well. As a 40K fan (I am 58 yrs. old)I have read all of "Ragnar Blackmane's exploits and have grown to like the characters around "Ragnar" and am saddened by the loss of one. But an honorable and glorious end.
Wolf Honour??? [Posted on 2008-08-21]
This was a waste of money, poor argument, all characters are lost in a serial of bad situations, the secuence of the previous book are broken, the new name for Ragnar is "young Space Wolf" (with a thousands of references), Black Library needs to choose the writers very well because this was a big mistake
Teens Love it!!! [Posted on 2008-09-26]
My 16-year-old son reads through the War Hammer books within a week. He absolutely loves them!!! Give them what they will read and it will broaden their horizons.
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