Night Lords Paperback – June 10, 2014

A must read and amazing book, in your hands, before a book you really want to read is shot up to 1000% its original MSRP, like other books from this amazing author. Now I know why ADB is considered one of the best Warhammer authors ever.

ADB does it again. Great narrative, and even better characters. This series made me want to rush to my LGS and buy a whole army of CSM to paint as Night Lord

Arrived on time and was in great condition. A really good read.

Seems to insinuate there is going to be a sequel or some sort of follow up based on the ending

This is what I've been looking for in a chaos Space Marine book for quite a while and many elements that have been missing from the Warhammer books in general.The book follows Talos a chaos Space Marine of the Night Lords who also is afflicted with the gift of prophecy like his primarch Konrad. The thing I mostly enjoyed was that Talos was a Space Marine from the time of the heresy and Pre-heresy functioning in the modern Warhammer 40k universe. I enjoyed getting the thoughts and comparisons of what the Pre-heresy empire had looked like compared to now and the reactions to everyday imperial citizens to his knowledge of the old empire. Talos is also not the mindless marine we usually see in these books, imperial or chaos. He thinks about the whys and how's of what happened and his place in it. He's definitely evil and flawed but strangely introspective. There are also quite a few chapters of Talos remembering his times with his Primarch Konrad. I always enjoy the fleshing out of the character of the Primarchs and their backgrounds.We also finally get a more human story line with two of his slaves Septimus and Octavia. We see how they filter the experiences of traveling with chaos marines and how they adapt. There is also true romance and loyalty with these two, something else rarely seen in the Warhammer universe. It's a small side story but one that's often overlooked in the novels. I don't read Warhammer for a love story, I read them for battles and duels and cool sci-fi, fantasy but even this universe needs glimpses of the higher human emotions at least for believability.The action is nicely written and paced. We see good space battles and duels. We also see a chapter showing its strengths and weaknesses in battle. The space lords specialized in psychological terror and warfare during the empires expansion and do not fair as well in stand up fights with other chapters. They know this and try to fight accordingly.Reason for four instead of five stars comes down to plot. There wasn't really an overall plot or antagonist to the series. The elves are barely seen even when they are set up as the main antagonist of the last third of the omnibus. It was just a stream of incidents loosely tied together but still fairly cohesive.I also was not impressed with the interactions with Abbadon. Wasn't really true to how he'd been written in the past.Also without having read any of the other Warhammer books I think a reader would be lost. Definitely not the book to start with if wanting to get into the Warhammer books.

Throne of Lies was my personal favorite story, I won’t spoil it but yeah that’s not an interrogation room that you want to be in 😭

What can be said that hasn't already been said by countless others? When I first came across the first book "Soul Hunter" in the warhammer section of a place called Half Priced Books this was one of a handful that I picked up to read (one other of note being Legion of the Damned). When I eventually got around to reading this (I read Legion first and it took a little bit, it was entertaining, but not as game changing) I was enthralled, a man possessed, I devoured it. I could not get enough, and then proceeded to scour the depths of Amazon and the underbelly of the interwebs (not unlike Nostramo the Night Lords home planet) searching frantically for the next two books that were not price gouged into oblivion (luckily some pawn shops had recently put some up for sale, and weirdly enough a church was selling one copy as well). I waited with antici......pation for them to arrive (and with much chagrin) the third arrived first and then the second book a few days later. I read all three books twice, and when I saw that the Ominubus had dropped I picked up a copy of it and read it was well (NOTE that all three books are in the Ominbus, and in between each subsequent book there's like 10-20 pages of filler/fluff that isn't crucial to the plot yet still very entertaining to read). This book was so excellent that it actually got me more involved in the Warhammer universe to the extent that not only have I delved deep into the official Night Lords cannon, but actually picked up a couple of the minis to paint. Lucoryphus gives this series 4 claws up.

If you don't know too much of the warhammer 40k universe, then I'll start on a different book, but this book is still great. It's dark and gruesome, but it's an amazing read.