The Lost and the Damned by Guy Haley
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The Lost and the Damned
- Siege of Terra: The Horus Heresy, Book 2
- By: Guy Haley
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Series: Siege of Terra: The Horus Heresy, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Publisher's Summary
Siege of Terra, Book 2
The Solar War is over. The Siege of Terra has begun. As the Traitors unleash their deadliest weapons, the defenders of the Throneworld face nightmare and plague - but Terra must stand.
Listen to it because: discover the lengths to which Horus will go to claim Terra as his own - and the horrors he is willing to set upon its defenders.
The story: on the 13th day of Secundus, the bombardment of Terra began. With the solar defences overcome through the devastating strength of the Traitor armada and the power of the warp, Horus launches his assault on the Throneworld in earnest. After withstanding a ferocious barrage of ordnance, an immense ground war commences outside the Palace, with every inch gained paid for in the lives of billions. The front lines are beyond horrific, and the very air is reduced to poison and blood. Bodies are thrown into the meat grinder, but the outer redoubts cannot possibly hold for long, even with the loyal primarchs to reinforce them.
For Horus has his own generals to call upon. Between the plague weapons of Mortarion and the fury of Angron, the defenders face a losing battle.
Written by Guy Haley. Narrated by Jonathan Keeble.
©2019 Games Workshop Limited (P)2019 Games Workshop Limited
Dale
Not quite enough.
While this story follows interesting characters that hook me in well enough, it seems to meander around mysteriously without actually doing anything. I’m intrigued, but through the whole novel I feel like I’m waiting for something that happen that never does. It feels like Guy Haley was writing one big book and an editor cut it in half and gave us this little one.
The ending is unsatisfying in that it is clearly setting up a sequel that we all knew was coming but I feel that that’s no reason to leave every question unresolved in -this- book.
That said, it’s got good characters to follow and does a decent job of describing the boring parts of a siege in an interesting way that includes the science fiction elements without breaking immersion. As an audio medium, Jonathan Keeble does an admirable job putting a different nuance on each character.
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