Echoes of Eternity

The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra, Book 7

De: Aaron Dembski-Bowden

Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble

Siege of Terra Book 7

With the walls of the Imperial Palace in ruins and the end in sight, Sanguinius prepares one final stand. The loyalists are desperate, and the Warmaster’s hordes are certain of their coming victory.

Listen to it because

The myriad battles of the Siege of Terra series are pulling into a taut weave of tension, horror, and certain doom. Just when you thought it was bad, it gets worse.

The story

The walls have fallen. The defenders are broken. The Inner Palace lies in ruins.

The Warmaster’s horde advances through the fire and ash of Terra's dying breaths, forcing the loyalists back to the Delphic Battlement—the very walls of the Sanctum Imperialis. Angron, Primarch of the World Eaters and Herald of Horus, has achieved immortality through annihilation—now he leads the armies of the damned in a wrathful tide, destroying all before them as the warp begins its poisonous corruption of Terra's very soil.

For the Emperor’s beleaguered forces, the end has come. The Khan lies on the edge of death. Rogal Dorn is encircled, fighting his own war at Bhab Bastion. Guilliman will not reach Terra in time. Without his brothers, Sanguinius—the Angel of the Ninth Legion—waits on the final battlements, hoping to rally a desperate band of defenders and refugees for one last stand.

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The penultimate could only be this way

ADB is a good author- his lack in ability to write proper theological arguments and half baked philosophies is definitely a weakness he shows in works like the First Heretic and Hellsreach. But they’re often overshadowed by his uncanny abilities in writing out action scenes and flavorful intrapersonal dialogue.
His execution of the penultimate work to this series is fantastic. This was the tragedy of slaughter and horror the audience has been anticipating since the solar war that we’ve finally been delivered.

INCREDIBLE. JUST INCREDIBLE.

Once again, ADB steals the show with quite possibly the best novel in the Seige of Terra series. An absolute treat to any 40k fan.

amazing show stopper

Just dropping spectacle of primarch on primarch warfare. i can not wait for the next.

Outstanding

Maybe the best 40 book next to Devastation of Baal. A Lot of moments where powerful speeches and dialogue of the Primarchs are presented.

Another good book

Once more å good book in the solar war series. It is building up to the epic ending that is to come in the next one.

All the best, none of the rest.

This is it, all throughout the book you can feel the crescendo of emotions from total despair to bleak acceptance to the rebirth of hope, interlaced with gripping action of ever surpassing violence. Seeing Sanguinius and his sons give it all was a breathtaking experience. This series never disappoints, I can never recommend enough.

The journey nears it's end

Loved it. Working night shift, I listen on my way home and unfortunately I sometimes fall asleep, so I found myself having to listen to sections twice.

whatever happened to the Death Guard Apothecary with his little pet? Did I miss something?

adb killed it

i loved every second of it. seriously it was everything i wanted and then some!

By far the moving boom in the series.

I’ve probably read about 40 of these books now… It’s so hard to tell which ones my favorite, but I will say this was the book I had the hardest time putting down. It’s perfectly paced and has some of the most emotionally gripping scenes in the entire Horus heresy

ADB is the fifth god of chaos

Amazing story by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, amazing narration by Jonathan Keeble. The intensity of the narrative builds over the course of the almost 16 hour runtime, like watching a tsunami slowly consuming a coastal town... inevitable, implacable, inescapable. The longer it goes on, the more awful and desperate the scene becomes. And for the protagonists, there's no way out. As usual, ADB does an incredible job at making Chaos sing for him. It's presence runs throughout the entire story without overpowering it. It sort of hums in the background of the narrative, only breaking the surface at a few key points, such as when a guardsman ends his own life in desperation, only to learn what awaits him afterwards in death. You will cheer for a faceless skitarii that has a product designation instead of a name. You'll thank god you're not Vulkan. You'll learn what the Blood Angels were like before Sanguinius civilized them. And perhaps, amidst all the insanity, titans being wasted like toilet paper, bombardments, demigods, feasting hoards of demons, and old friends now fighting each other to the bitter end, the death of a certain tiny creature might hit you right in the feels.

Anyways, buy it. In my humble opinion, this is basically tied with Saturnine for being the best book in the HH/SoT series. Several of these Siege of Terra books I didn't even finish. This one, like Saturnine, I will be listening to again.