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The Damnation of Pythos

The Horus Heresy, Book 30

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The Damnation of Pythos

By: David Annandale
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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In the aftermath of the Dropsite Massacre at Isstvan V, a battered and bloodied force of Iron Hands, Raven Guard and Salamanders regroups on a seemingly insignificant death world.

Fending off attacks from all manner of monstrous creatures, the fractious allies find hope in the form of human refugees fleeing from the growing war and cast adrift upon the tides of the warp. But even as the Space Marines carve out a sanctuary for them in the jungles of Pythos, a darkness gathers that threatens to consume them all.

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As the title says this book was OK and had some interesting ideas that it ultimately didn't deliver on for me. I felt that no worthwhile conclusions were reached and that the characters and their motivations could have been further explored.

Overall the book didn't add anything to the Heresy storyline and left no interesting reveals or hooks to be picked up by later books. The characters were a bit too cliche for my liking although think elements could have been further explored like two Iron Hands having very different outlooks and opinions instead of the sergeant just giving up and deciding his captain must be right.

I was left feeling that there was no suitable conclusion to the story, as the struggle the characters went through and challenges they faced ultimately resulted in no notable change or worthwhile outcome. If your a fan of the Iron Hands you may still like this closer look at them and the action scenes are decent.

An OK book but wouldn't be recommending it

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Enjoyed it.

Keeble is always fantastic, it doesn't advance the overall plot but really interesting and different.

A detour but worth a listen

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The writing is a bit too exaggerated and overly descriptive. There's only so many times you can describe the trans-human might of the legionnes astartes in one minute until it gets boring.

Nice twist towards the end but overall this felt like lots of filler and little killer in the novel.

A filler novel in the series.

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i dont know why reviews are slightly worse for this hh book, i thought it was good, not the best it the series but definately above average, ive read them all in order up to this point, story followed a group of the iron hands legion, only negatives are it took a while to get going for ,(end 1/4 was best) and i would of written the ending differently but otherwise a soli book worth a read if your reading hh series

i enjoyed this one!

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Really enjoyed this tale of adventure and hardship of the iron hands legion, “flesh is weak”!

Strong plot

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