Games Workshop Eisenhorn: The Omnibus

An excellent first step for anyone who is looking as to how to enter the vast 40k universe. Thank you angryjoe show for the recommendation

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Great Series, great Book! Book arrived with minor damages on the Cover.

I loved reading every second of this. I'm just a mom who would normally turn my nose at something Warhammer, but was convinced to try and enjoy the complex and rich lore by a family member. I couldn't put the Eisenhorn omnibus down, cover to cover I read the entire thing in less than a week, and then read it again. This and Space Wolves were fantastic gateways into the Warhammer universe. I've since bought several more Warhammer book series and am devouring them. This particular work was excellent and Abnett is a great writer, he avoided the sloppy, lazy, low vocabulary writing I've seen littering most modern "literature". The pace is excellent, the surprises and character developments were great, the story arcs were well done. I really really loved this series and look forward to the Ravenor books.

This compilation was the 'last chance' read for dan abnett in my book, after what I considered contrived or overt insertion of coincidences to introduce plot items or devices/resolutions in First and Only and Fell Cargo. I particularly felt first and only was entirely too contrived in the introduction of elements of gaunt's background, each as needed for the plot. Maybe he was limited in space or had strict outlines there, but in any event.... this series had none of those flaws. First-person narrative read well, and usually quickly, with no sense of contrived coincidences just to move the plot along, and few if any of the cliche plot turns that I disliked in the books i mentioned above. Furthermore, Abnett shows his tremendous ability to describe enviroments, worlds, cities, through language. When he describes a Hive-city, a small village, a trans-alpine railway, you feel like you are seeing it. Another great strength of this story, particularly Hereticus, is the development of his ability to write very competent antagonists. A major defect in much sci-fi, BL and not, is the use of cardboard-cutout antagonists, who leave you wondering how they ever rose to their position in the first place. The major antagonist in this trilogy, Pontius Glaw, shows early signs of the extreme competence without omnipotence that some villains from his later Ravenor series show. Edit - 4th re-read, 08.2008 - Having read everything else by Abnett, and gained a lot of familiarity with W40k in general, I would like to offer that this is a great trilogy. One thing that caught my eye this time was an aspect of Ravenor that was apparently dropped in the Ravenor novels - His Lord Seer eldar that he referred to in the last part of this trilogy. The implication was that Ravenor was subservient or at the very least allied with the Eldar, something Abnett seems to have just dropped in the follow-up series.