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Our Gate Guard
Jul. 20th, 2023 09:59 pmThis pretty lady guards the front door to Offhand Manor. I'm hoping to identify her, and so long as she remains outside, we're all good.
( Cut for the arachnophobic )
( Cut for the arachnophobic )
Jul. 20th, 2023
As a worldbuilder...
Jul. 20th, 2023 10:07 pmI'm sick again. Kirsten and I are both dealing with intestinal viral infections.
Being a survivor of cancer and so many other things, I have to laugh at the idea that we were intelligently designed. We are an accident of evolution, still not fully adapted to walking upright. I could build a much better human body, starting with more error-checking in our DNA.
Bah. I hate being sick. Plus, our teeth and bones should regrow naturally.
Being a survivor of cancer and so many other things, I have to laugh at the idea that we were intelligently designed. We are an accident of evolution, still not fully adapted to walking upright. I could build a much better human body, starting with more error-checking in our DNA.
Bah. I hate being sick. Plus, our teeth and bones should regrow naturally.
https://www.blacklibrary.com/series/gaunts-ghosts/ebook-the-victory-part-two-eng-2022.html
Five Stars
I think this series has reached its natural end or a transformation point.
Picking up from the events in the first Victory Omnibus, the Ghosts, their Imperial Navy crew, and the Regiment's followers find themselves suddenly back in realspace, with shattered memories, fogged minds, and being boarded. After a fierce fight, they learn the truth. The loss of one of their war engines has cast them out of the warp, and ten years have passed.
They reach the vital forge world of Urdesh, where an essential campaign will determine the fate of the war. To his shock, Gaunt is named a Lord Commander and ushered into the highest circles of the crusade's command, and a deadly new world of political infighting.
The two novels cover the final acts of the Urdesh campaign and are filled with Abnett's great characters, brilliant imagery, and vile enemies. The last book resolves many hanging plotlines, and as I said at the top, it is a perfect chance for the series to take a new direction. Gaunt is now the second in command of the crusade, the voice of the Warlord. The 1st Tanith is now his personal guard. I'd love to see the series lean into this, showing the big picture and infighting in the highest circles, as Gaunt did leapfrog over several people to be named to his new post. It would be fascinating to see the Ghosts evolve after over twenty years of combat and so many losses to find their new identity.
A tremendous new omnibus in the Black Library's longest-running series following a single unit.
Five Stars
I think this series has reached its natural end or a transformation point.
Picking up from the events in the first Victory Omnibus, the Ghosts, their Imperial Navy crew, and the Regiment's followers find themselves suddenly back in realspace, with shattered memories, fogged minds, and being boarded. After a fierce fight, they learn the truth. The loss of one of their war engines has cast them out of the warp, and ten years have passed.
They reach the vital forge world of Urdesh, where an essential campaign will determine the fate of the war. To his shock, Gaunt is named a Lord Commander and ushered into the highest circles of the crusade's command, and a deadly new world of political infighting.
The two novels cover the final acts of the Urdesh campaign and are filled with Abnett's great characters, brilliant imagery, and vile enemies. The last book resolves many hanging plotlines, and as I said at the top, it is a perfect chance for the series to take a new direction. Gaunt is now the second in command of the crusade, the voice of the Warlord. The 1st Tanith is now his personal guard. I'd love to see the series lean into this, showing the big picture and infighting in the highest circles, as Gaunt did leapfrog over several people to be named to his new post. It would be fascinating to see the Ghosts evolve after over twenty years of combat and so many losses to find their new identity.
A tremendous new omnibus in the Black Library's longest-running series following a single unit.