As always, the best books are about people.

[gridlore]

Titanicus by Dan Abnett

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Another great entry in the Black Library. This story follows Legio Invictus, a Titan Legion that's deployed to Orestus, a vital forge world supporting the Sabbat Crusade (which is pretty much Abnetts Dark Tower at this point) to help defend the planet from a sudden incursion of Chaos Titans and skitarii. This helps to illustrate the dichotomy between Imperial and Mechanicus, as one seems to have all the power in the universe, and the other is essentially at the mercy of that power.

The storyline falters slightly by trying to branch together two separate plotlines, involving a stray squad of auxiliary PDF with the Titan Legion engagements. While I'm a fan of ground pounders, and Abnett can write that incredibly well, it was hard to hold the squad members in mind, and I kept losing track of who was doing what why, and who was augmented and who wasn't. The Titan battles are incredibly well written, and the technology at the disposal of the Mechanicus was both impressive and disheartening, in that its knowledge lost that can't be regained.



View all my reviews

Comments

[marycatelli]

I really liked this one.