Beastly Beheadings
The Beast Arises comes to its climax this week, with the publication of Guy Haley’s The Beheading. If you’ve been waiting until all the books are out before starting the series, here’s what you can expect from my two contributions.
The Emperor Expects (Book three)
“As ork ships lay waste to world after world, heading inexorably towards Terra, Imperial citizens despair. The High Lords become desperate to prove that victory is possible, no matter the cost. A massive Navy fleet is assembled – their mission to make a definitive strike against the orks at Port Sanctus, an area of enemy-held space. But when the Imperial armada arrives, they find themselves outclassed and outmanoeuvred – can human courage and faith possibly prevail against such terrible odds?”
“Now that is a cliffhanger ending. Gav Thorpe did a great job and delivered the first great entry in this series.” 5 out of 5 Stars
– Michael Butler, Goodreads
“This book series is just getting better and better with each entry. Gav Thorpe here has introduced new character, fleshed out existing ones, and taken the story arc into a place we have no idea where it go go next. I await the next title hungrily.” 5 out of 5 Stars
– Rob, Goodreads
“The characters are a strong part of this book. They are truly… – human. Yes, that’s exactly it – Gav has created a believable characters who are truly alive on each page.” 5 out of 5 Stars
– Andrey Nalyotov, Goodreads
The Beast Must Die (Book eight)
“The Imperium has been brought to the edge of extinction by an ork invasion of unprecedented scale and depth. Piecemeal strikes against the invaders prove ineffective – for every ork fleet destroyed, five more appear. The only solution is to find and kill the orks’ warlord – the Great Beast. Surely if its leader is killed, the greenskins’ empire will fall apart in agony of infighting and confusion. Lord Commander Koorland assembles a mighty army, but when they arrives on the orks home world, the forces of the Imperium discover they have disastrously underestimated the might and ingenuity of their enemy.”
“The Beast Must Die takes the fight back to the orks for good. It is full of action and, oddly enough, development for the orks and the Great Beast. The latter makes it one of the coolest ork focused books in Black Library’s stable (at least as far as 40k is concerned), which is at least in part due to Gav Thorpe’s attempts to feature old and forgotten pieces from the background. The Beast Must Die is an excellent book.” 5 out of 5 Stars
– DarkChaplain, Goodreads
“The pace of this book, as with all the other Beast Arises books is excellent, the action is great and there are no logical gaps in the narrative. The story is very action focused as you would expect it to be and the ending of the book once again makes you wonder where things will go.” 5 out of 5 Stars
– Rob C, Amazon
“Gav’s done an excellent job with a tricky subject, and given us a book full of inventive action and suspense, with none of the massive shocks of the early books but plenty of thought-provoking details.” 4 out of 5 Stars
– Michael Dodd, Goodreads
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