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Mortis (Volume 5) Hardcover – April 13 2021

by John French (Author)

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Book 5 of 6: Siege of Terra: The Horus Heresy

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Book 5 in the global bestselling series, "The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra"

The victories of Saturnine and the sacrifices of the Eternity Wall space port have faded into the hope of yesterday. Denied but not defeated, the traitors intensify their assault on the Imperial Palace. With the principal space ports in Horus’ hands, the Warmaster now drains the heavens of his reserves. As the pressure of the assault increases, the power of Chaos waxes. The waking lives of the defenders are filled with despair, while their dreams pull them in search of a false paradise. As the fabric of the defences fails and the will of those who stand on them cracks, Horus commands the Titans of the Legio Mortis to breach the walls. Against them stands the might of Mercury Wall and the strength of the Legio Ignatum. Ancient rivals, the god-engines of both Legions meet in battle, while within the walls a few desperate individuals seek a way to turn back the tide of the warp’s malign influence. Across Terra lost warriors and travellers make their way through wastelands and gardens of horror, towards home and an unknown future.

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560 pages
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English
Publisher

Games Workshop
Publication date

April 13 2021
Dimensions

15.49 x 6.1 x 21.59 cm
ISBN-10

1789998166
ISBN-13

978-1789998160
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John French is the author of several Horus Heresy stories including the novels The Solar War, Praetorian of Dorn, Tallarn and Slaves to Darkness, the novella The Crimson Fist, and the audio dramas Dark Compliance, Templar and Warmaster. For Warhammer 40,000 he has written Resurrection, Incarnation and Divination for The Horusian Wars and three tie-in audio dramas – the Scribe award-winning Agent of the Throne: Blood and Lies, as well as Agent of the Throne: Truth and Dreams and Agent of the Throne: Ashes and Oaths. John has also written the Ahriman series and many short stories.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Games Workshop (April 13 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 560 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1789998166
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1789998160
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 kg
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.49 x 6.1 x 21.59 cm

Best Sellers Rank: #153,613 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,108 in Space Fleet Science Fiction
- #1,175 in Exploration Science Fiction
- #1,284 in Space Marine Science Fiction

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John French is an award winning script writer, novelist, and games designer. He has written twelve novels over a decade long career, notably the Ahriman series and Horusian Wars trilogies set in the dystopian far future of Warhammer 40,000, and five novels in the New York Times Bestselling The Horus Heresy series, most recently with The Solar War. His other work includes cosmic horror in the Lord of Nightmares Trilogy from Fantasy Flight Publishing, and detective fiction in The Last Visitor in Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes from Titan Books (writing as Stephen Henry). In 2018 he won a Scribe Award for Best Audio with the audio drama Agent of the Throne: Blood and Lies. He is currently in the writers' room for several forthcoming genre television shows.

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Stefan Campbell

A Disappointing Addition

Reviewed in Canada on April 28, 2021

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This book is filled with plot armour, red herrings, and disappointment. I want to delve deeper into that but don't want to give away any spoilers. However, the author introduces plots and builds them up only to have them come to nothing. You can probably skip this book in the series and move onto the next without any difficulty. Also, there is no actual ending. Most books in a series at least have a little bit of closure to them...this one doesn't. At this price you should avoid it.

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The entry that finally captures how horrifying the Siege would be for the people at ground level.

Reviewed in Canada on May 3, 2021

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Titan combat abounds, but the focus on human perspectives really brings the scale and the stakes into focus. The prose and tone are excellent, and generally make up for the occasionally flat characterization

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Joseph Cayman

Came slightly damaged but that was quickly fixed

Reviewed in Canada on February 7, 2022

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Was purchased as a gift for cousin now I'm broke with all these miniatures. (Great book)

Reviewed in Canada on December 19, 2021

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It’s cool but I dont like how two books of the series are not the same size

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David Springham

A lumbering connector driving us towards the main event

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2021

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Reading this book was like preparing for a smooth paddle down a tranquil river after the success of Saturnine, only to find out you’d be taking on an Olympic canoe slalom course. The book is a difficult read, jumping around and mixing the pace up just as you were getting into each section of narrative. No doubt this book was tough to write, having to drive us to the closing stages. A shame, but the worst entry in the series so far for me.

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Duncan Owen

Book lumbers like a Titan

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2021

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I suspect this book was a challenge to write. It was certainly a challenge to read. So many sections had to be reread to understand what was happening. Important bits of the story )eg the breaching of the wall) are glossed over, whilst page after page is spent on pushing a variety of storylines I found myself not really caring about, I guess for human interest? But I don't read this books for the human interest. I read them for the scale; the fighting, the 40 (30)k ness of it all. And those bits I really struggled to follow. Bit disappointed.

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dull so dull

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2021

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The other reviewers have said it all, parts of story I loved like the titan battles but their are pages and pages of waffel about characters you know and care nothing about in a sort of poetic acid trip.
Have read most of his other books which are fine, why did he let the greatest battle of all mankind down on this poorly written dull book.

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lysander1

Worst so far

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2021

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Pity. Overwritten, dull, overlong, pointless, dull, clumsy, dithering, aimless, waste of a good writer, padding, need to sell books, dull.

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L. W. Chew

Confusingly written, jumps around and sometimes makes no sense

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 21, 2021

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I've read the majority of the Horus heresy series and all the siege of terra books so far so I'm quite read up on 30k and 40k lore but this book was a confusing mess even for me. Going into this I thought I would be getting a book about clashes between the titan legions at the walls of the Imperial palace. And that does happen but the combat descriptions aren't that goodand makes use of Deus ex machina a bit too much (zombie titans? That rise after being gutted by overwhelming firepower? Give me a break!). The mediocre titan action is interrupted by the B story involving characters from some other book in the Horus heresy series I barely remember and hence I care nothing for (escapees from Calth and Oll persson) wandering through some sort of surrealist landscape that I can't tell if it's the past, the present or some future where Horus wins. Exceptionally poor exposition and poor scene setting from the author. The constant jumping around and a cast of mostly unknown characters will have you constantly referring to the excessively long Dramatis personae list at the start of the book.

Finally some descriptions make absolutely no sense. For example a paragraph describes a shell shocked trooper being driven insane and "diving at a viewslit. It was narrow. Too narrow for a human skull. Too narrow for a body. There was a crunch, a gasp, a wet writhing and snapping... And he was gone. And then there was just a wet, jelly read smear across the edges of the viewslit"
So this poor trooper throws himself at something no bigger than a letter slot in a wall, and somehow pushes himself through it, shattering all his bones and turning himself into a paste ejected out through the other side?? What nonsense is this?! How does that even happen?!. All that should happen is that he hits his head and gets a concussion, not look like he's been pushed through it with a pneumatic press!

I'd say to give this a hard pass and hope the next book in the series has some semblance of flow, structure, sense and story telling.

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