Ciaphas Cain: Choose Your Enemies: Choose Your Enemies (Volume 10)

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Book 031 - Legacies of Betrayal by "various authors", edited by Graham McNeill (anthology) (February 2015)

Choose Your Enemies, by Sandy Mitchell AUDIO REVIEW: Choose Your Enemies, by Sandy Mitchell

But the avatar was faster, swinging its arcane weapon through the space the noncorporeal entity occupied, and a wordless wail of agony and despair echoed through the air around us. A nimbus of light erupted from the pole arm, in which a shadow seemed to move, struggling desperately as it was drawn into the very blade itself. Then the light faded, and the avatar froze into watchful immobility.

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The immediate bonus to this book's overall score comes from its choice of extra characters. As the synopsis implied, there are a lot of returning faces here, but the fact the Valhallan 597th themselves are present is a definite boon. The ensemble of secondary characters and mixed regimental figures always helped to bolster the stories. The a mix of familiar faces offered more opportunities for jokes, stories and material for Cain's narration to work with. While this might sound like hyperbole, if you compare the first three books with Death or Glory, you might notice that one is more engaging than the other. They're both well written, excellently paced and brilliantly described, but the supporting cast elevates the tale to a new level. Fight or Flight • For the Emperor • Echoes of the Tomb • Caves of Ice • The Beguiling • The Traitor's Hand

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Garro: Vow of Faith by James Swallow (limited edition) (December 2015) ... also included in the book no. 42 Book 048 - The Burden of Loyalty by "various authors", edited by Laurie Goulding (anthology) (February 2018) Legacy of the Wulfen by David Annandale & Robbie MacNiven (this anthology includes "Curse of the Wulfen" & "Legacy of Russ" (June 2017)Yet atop of everything else, Choose Your Enemies manages to sidestep a fair few of the pacing issues and structural problems inherent in the overall series. While hardly the worst example put onto paper, the efforts to reflect Cain's less formulaic style often interferes with the finer parts of pacing a book. When an event occurs, how it occurs, what drives the protagonist onward, how important something is to the overarching plot; that sort of thing. While it disguised this well for some time, toward start of the third trilogy these problems became much more obvious. A few of the more typically overused narrative devices were so often employed that it was clear how they were trying to distract the reader from problems. Flesh Tearers by Andy Smillie (the anthology includes the novellas "Flesh of Cretacia, Sons of Wrath and Trial by Blood") (February 2016) Stop! Stop!’ she wailed. Then the towering mass of flesh crashed to the ground. A miasma of nothingness, like its first manifestation, seemed to seep out of it, writhing like the scorching air over a desert as the thing’s essence sought to escape the destruction of her physical body.

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Tallarn: Ironclad by John French (limited edition) (February 2015) ... also included in the book no. 45 This omnibus edition contains the books Horus Rising, False Gods and Galaxy in Flames, and also the stories "The Wolf of Ash and Fire", "Lord of the Red Sands" and "Death of a Silversmith" included in book #35, #33, and #22 respectively Strike and Fade by Guy Haley (special edition) (December 2012) ... also included in the book no. 31And they’ve got it,’ Amberley said, glancing upwards to the breach in the dome. Another dot was falling, growing larger with every passing second. I expected it to swerve, or break its fall like the others, but it just kept plummeting towards us. Echoes of Revelation by Dan Abnett, Chris Wraight & Gav Thorpe (the anthology includes "Perpetual" (also included in the book no. 48), "The soul, severed" (also included in the book no. 52)& "Valerius" (also included in the book no. 52) (May 2017)