Shattered Legions. Alien dinosaurs. Shattered Legions fighting alien dinosaurs. On paper, The Damnation of Pythos has everything. In reality, it is a miserable excuse for a Horus Heresy novel. The writing is dramatic and engaging enough, but there simply aren't any characters worth caring about and the plot, well...The plot starts nowhere, meanders through a lot of truly gratuitous violence and then finishes with the second-worst ending any story can have, above only 'and then they woke up and it was all a dream': everyone dies. Upon finishing this book, the reader is left wondering why they wasted their time.
The only reason to buy this book is to avoid leaving a gap in your Heresy collection. Do not read it, unless you consider your time worthless or particularly enjoy sci-fi violence and horror for its own sake. For those of you who still may be curious, I will provide a brief outline...
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