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Dan Abnett returns to the best-selling Horus Hersey series in this latest instalment of the saga!
About the Author
Dan Abnett is a novelist and award-winning comic book writer. He has written twenty-five novels for the Black Library, including the acclaimed Gaunt’s Ghosts series and the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies, and, with Mike Lee, the Darkblade cycle. His Black Library novel Horus Rising and his Torchwood novel Border Princes (for the BBC) were both bestsellers. He lives and works in Maidstone, Kent.
Dan’s website can be found at www.DanAbnett.com
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3.7 out of 5 stars (41 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Very strange, and certainly not up to Abnett's usual standard, Feb 9 2012
By Anonymous 384 - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Prospero Burns (Mass Market Paperback)
I believe that Dan Abnett is indisputably the premiere author in the Horus Heresy series, and arguably the premiere contributor to Warhammer 40K literature in general. His status as the bestselling Black Library author supports this. However, Prospero Burns is a rather mediocre offering.The first issue with Prospero Burns is that it is strange. Utterly so. The story is often bizarre. There's not much else to be said here. Second is the fact that the story is too drawn out. Much time is spent with prelude and character development that ultimately leads nowhere. Third is the fact that too much filler is involved. There are scenes that are simply unnecessary.
I'm not sure to what can be attributed the mediocrity of this novel. It is known that Abnett developed epilepsy during the course of writing this novel; this accounted for its six-month delay in publication. Perhaps some responsibility can be laid on this and on fact that Abnett was no doubt placed under pressure to finish the novel in a timely novel anyway. It's a novel far below Abnett's usual standard. That said, I'm fully confident that the quality of his writing will recover in future offerings.
If you're a fan of the series, read the book; but get it from your library rather than buying it. It adds a bit to the series, and Leman Russ is an interesting character, but the novel is not necessarily worth spending money upon.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not Abnett's best offering, Nov 5 2011
By Brandon Martinez - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Prospero Burns (Mass Market Paperback)
So I just finished this title and here are my thoughts.Pros:
Its Horus Heresy fiction. Helps flesh out the universe a little better. Some good action scenes. At times Abnett's writing is fantastic. A semi interesting story with a decent protagonist who does develop over the book. Big book for pricetag.
Cons:
Story doesn't really get going until roughly page 300. I had to learn about 20 new words (made up words for that matter) in order to understand what was going on. Story is not really about the attack on Prospero (Attacking Prospero gets about 20 pages at the end of the book). Seemed biased to make me dislike The Thousand Sons, who I feel in love with after reading their novel. Lots of editing errors, including serious errors involving the story IE: People being in 2 places at once etc...
Gray Areas:
Not that much action for a 40k book.
I'm giving this book 3 stars, if I had to give the book a rating after 300 pages it may have been 1 star. But the last 150 or so pages help the book make up alot of ground.
I do not recommend picking up this book unless you can force yourself to get through 300 pages of boring non story related material before you get to the good stuff.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good, a bit surprising, not quite among the best, Mar 16 2012
By JPS - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Prospero Burns (Mass Market Paperback)
First posted on Amazon.co.uk on 7 February 2011I liked Prospero Burns, although it could have been better. I do not share the somewhat excessive views that this book has received. Having said that, it is possible to understand these views because this book is somewhat unusual and surprising. Many readers were no doubt expecting a story told from the Space Wolves' viewpoint (which is not quite the case here) and told in "Space Wolve" style (which is not at all the case). Therefore, their expectations have not been meet and they must be disappointed, or even frustrated. There are, of course, descriptions of fights and battles but this is not the book's major feature. It's rather part of the background.
I understand that some commentators couldn't care less about the narrator, disliked the fact that he was not one of the Space Wolves and believed that these and their Primarch do not take center stage. It seems that one of the main points that Dan was keen to make was to show how appearences and reputations can be deceptive. The Space Wolves are deemed by all other Imperials (including most other Astartes legions) to be half-crazy savages and sociopaths, bordering on the unhuman and only bent on destruction. The book shows them as much more than that: the Emperor's most loyal and most relentless Executioners. This in itself made the book worth reading.
Another point is that this book continues what many others in the HH serie have done: it is not only about events, battles, slaughter. It tries to show how the Empire got itself into a major civil war that almost destroyed it and to descrive events seen from different viewpoints. It also reads like a thriller-spy story, noy only like a military sci-fi book. Here, however, I was a bit disappointed on several counts:
- The presentation of the third power (I'll avoid telling more so as not to spoil it!) pulling the strings behind the scenes is somewhat unplausible
- The Emperor falling into the trap and "sanctioning" Magnus and his Thousand Sons is also a bit of a problem. Even if he was not "omniscient", it is difficult to believe that the Emperor would have sent the Space Wolves to destroy Prospero without even considering the warning that Magnus was trying to bring to him.
- It is also a bit surprising to see Russ obeying and complying with his orders (by the way, what were his orders, exactly? They are never explicitly mentioned) to destroy his brother and a fellow-legion without raising any objections and without any further thought as to the consequences
- Another point are the references to past events, with numerous and tantalizing bits of information being dropped here and there about the Unification Wars on Terra and the "disappearance" of 2 of the Legions. On both counts, more could have been said.
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