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Darksiders: The Abomination Vault

Ari Marmell (Goodreads Author),

Bob Walter (Reading)

4.02 · Rating details · 711 ratings · 79 reviews

Ride with the Horsemen of the Apocalypse as they seek to unearth a plot that could plunge all of Creation into chaos!

Ages before the events of Darksiders and Darksiders II, two of the feared Horsemen—Death and War—are tasked with stopping a group of renegades from locating the Abomination Vault: a hoard containing weapons of ultimate power and malice, capable of bringin ...more

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Apr 02, 2017 Montzalee Wittmann rated it it was amazing

Darksiders: The Abomination Vault by Ari Marmell with Bob Walter (Reading) is the audio book I just finished and boy, it was AWESOME! The voice was perfect for this book! I felt I was there and in the battles, or in hell or heaven or where ever the trek lead. A fantastic story, a stand alone, of one of The Horsemen, Death, as he tries to solve a riddle before it sends Heaven, Hell, and everything created into chaos. Totally glued to my tablet the whole time! The plot had so many twist, surprise ...more

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Aug 25, 2012 Tasha rated it really liked it

What can I say? I'm a huge HUGE fan of the games and have been since I first got wind of the first one. So when I found out that they were doing a book I knew is get my hands on it eventually.

After reading the reviews I was a little hesitant but I know that I like books even when others don't. And I have to say that I did enjoy reading this one. I really loved the interactions between the Horsemen. Yes, you an see that they are about one another but these are strong personalities and stronger cr ...more

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Apr 13, 2012 Crowinator rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: arc-print, adult, booklist-review, genre-fantasy, 2012-reads, shared-worlds, angels-and-gods, devils-and-demons

Actual rating: 2.5 stars

Death, the Horseman of the Apocalypse, and his crow Dust are awesome (Kratos, God of War, BAMF awesome). The weapons called Grand Abominations are really inventive in a super-disturbing way. The writing is competent, a mix of snarky modern dialogue with a melodramatically boastful high-fantasy tone (that most likely fits well within the Darksiders game). Otherwise, as a gamer and a reader, I'd rather play this game than read a novelization of it. There were several scenes ...more

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Sep 25, 2012 Jagged rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: Everyone

Shelves: books-i-have

"Creation is quite impressionable. Everyone leaves a trail of their actions. And everyone, however wise, however powerful, however immortal, make mistakes.
All it requires is patience to wait for them. And you'll find no one, in all Creation, quite so patient as Death."

The writing was phenomenal. However, at times, the descriptions of places got a little out of control. Even though it was written beautifully, it ended up pulling me out of the read, and then irritating me. There were more than on ...more

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Jul 31, 2012 Adam Sparks rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Aside from being terribly - TERRIBLY - written, it's not bad. I like a lot of the insight into the Horsemen's background, especially how much of a bastard Death is. But seriously, the writing is BAD. The awful over-use of horrendously grotesquely terribly disgusting metaphors are the mark of a novice and the more action-y scenes were so dully written that they couldn't keep the attention of the most saintly of readers. ...more

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Apr 21, 2016 Jason Miller rated it it was ok

I really like the story but I hate the writing. You can use all the robust words you want to paint the scene, but the way it was done here was like watching Bob Ross tell me why he chose each color to do so. Fuck just get to the point. I wrote like that in grade school to fill the necessary word count and that's exactly what I felt like the author was doing here. ...more

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Dec 13, 2013 Reni rated it it was ok

Shelves: e-book, read-in-2013, fantasy, fangirl-appeal, media-tie-in

I don't read media tie-ins anymore. I read a lot more of them when I was tiny (say, about twelve), but I can count the number of good books I discovered that way on one hand, I guess, and you can often tell when an author's heart isn't invested in the story and characters.

Why did I read this one then? To be honest, I was simply curious. I should have known better, but I wanted to see for myself what a book might do with the rich lore of this franchise. In this case, however, the answer is "not ...more

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Jan 04, 2020 Travis rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I am just going to keep this review short and simple for one reason and one reason only, I'M SUCH A HARDCORE FAN FOR THIS SERIES. I have loved the Darksiders video game franchise since the beginning and yes, I can realize this isn't a perfect book by any means. I still found myself incredibly happy while reading. It was fun, it was action packed, it gave a better in depth look into the overall lore and history of this franchise and world. ...more

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Apr 25, 2018 Stephen rated it it was amazing

I enjoyed the book, and really enjoyed the dialogue.

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Oct 19, 2012 Saad Merchant rated it really liked it · review of another edition

THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF INFORMATION FIRST(just in case you find my review boring and don't read the rest) -

Darksiders the Abomination Vault is simply not just a filler like the irritating kinds brilliant series like Naruto n Bleach make us suffer... IT'S AN ACTUAL HAPPENING AND TELLING OF AN ACTUAL INCIDENT from the pasts of Death and War.

So if you played the game and you're a fan of the characters and universe - its a must read and if you've not played the game... read the book... it may ...more

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Jul 30, 2012 Jeremy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: Fans of the "Darksiders" series

This is an interesting case in a book, being heavily tied as it is to both the storyline of a video game already released (the original "Darksiders") as well as a game soon to be released called "Darksiders II." It is almost impossible for me to judge the book on its own merits due to feeling that without prior knowledge and exposure to the "Darksiders" world it seem both flat and to lack its own sense of internal cohesion.

Judged as additional canon to both "Darksiders" and "Darksiders II," the ...more

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Nov 19, 2015 Arjun Iyer rated it it was amazing

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As with books/novels, video games too are notoriously hard to adapt to any other format. However, Darksiders: The Abomination Vault in my opinion has set the benchmark when it comes to novels based on video games. The narrative is clear and crisp, the descriptions are as lavish and outrageous as the subject matter itself and the action sequences do not deviate from how gamers would actually play the game. The book captures the nuances of both protagonists (or anti-heroes) brilliantly, giving eac ...more

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Apr 30, 2018 Carla Smith rated it it was amazing

I remember watching my son play this game on his X-Box, and while I am not a gamer (is that the proper word these days?) I was stunned by not only the really wickedly cool graphics, but also the complexity of the story line involved in the game. Video games have come a long way since I spent hours failing to find the princess in Mario Bros!

So when I saw this book (had no idea anyone would think to write a prequel story) I had to buy it for my son, who read it, enjoyed it, and urged me to read i ...more

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Sep 14, 2012 Ryan rated it really liked it

This book is certainly something enjoyable. True it's somewhat disturbing at times but, not so much where you feel sick.

The Grand Abominations were interesting weapons, the story of how they were made is what I actually found a tad bit disturbing, but then again it just adds to their importance and the power they hold.

Death was my main interest in this, he just never stops with those witty, sarcastic remarks of his, which had me laughing far more than I was probably supposed to but who cares, ri ...more

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Nov 06, 2012 Abhinav rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

You can find the full review over at The Founding Fields:

http://thefoundingfields.com/2012/11/...

Shadowhawk reviews the first tie-in novel to the popular Darksiders video game series.

“Smart and witty, this is the kind of video game tie-in fiction that I absolutely love to read, but find precious little of in the wild” ~The Founding Fields

In my review of James Swallow’s Deus Ex: Icarus Effect, I remarked on how common it was for most video game novelisations to so utterly miss the mark, and just You can find the full review over at The Founding Fields:

http://thefoundingfields.com/2012/11/...

Shadowhawk reviews the first tie-in novel to the popular Darksiders video game series.

“Smart and witty, this is the kind of video game tie-in fiction that I absolutely love to read, but find precious little of in the wild” ~The Founding Fields

In my review of James Swallow’s Deus Ex: Icarus Effect, I remarked on how common it was for most video game novelisations to so utterly miss the mark, and just be terrible repetitions (at best) of the narrative gameplay, rather than something with a character of its own. If I want to get a straight up adaptation of the in-game narrative, I might as well play the game missions again rather than read them. You can easily guess I’m sure which is much more exciting I hope! When it comes to Darksiders, I have zero experience with the setting since I’ve never played the game. I didn’t even know about it until earlier this summer Ari Marmell blogged about it. I’d been following Ari for a while by then and had read his first Widdershins novel, which I’d found to be quiet an exciting and engaging one. Going into Darksiders: The Abomination Vault with zero expectations in that regard, as I did with David Gaider’s Dragon Age: The Silent Grove Volume 1, kept me open to be truly wowed, and that is exactly what happened here.

In Darksiders: The Abomination Vault, one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Death returns after half a century of self-imposed exile from the affairs of the universe and the Charred Council. And on his return, he finds himself involved from the get go in finding out which new enemy has sought to breach the defenses of Eden, and whether or not this attack was meant to break the fragile peace between the angels of Heaven and the demons of Hell. Set in an era that is several ages before the events of the Darksiders games, the novel also explores the core reasons why Death and his brother War, another Horseman of the Apocalypse, have a close bond in the game. With weapons of a bygone age that can destroy the universe itself, Death and War define their relationship against the troubles they face in ensuring that there is still a tomorrow.

Having read Ari’s Widdershins novels, I had a certain expectation of the narrative style that he would go for. Since I knew next to nothing about the games, I had no idea if his particular styles would work, or not. As I read the novel, one thing emerged, at first slowly, and then in leaps and bounds: this novel might very well be Ari’s best work to date. In the Widdershins novels, he went for a very heavy tongue-in-cheek style to suit the age of his protagonist and the sort of troubles she finds herself in as an accomplished thief. In my review for False Covenant, I noted that his constant use of sentences within brackets, sometimes even entire paragraphs, really pulled me out of the story and limited how much fun I was having on my read through. Compared to that, its as if Darksiders: The Abomination Vault is Ari perfecting his craft and getting closer to the peak of his career, in my experience. The differences between the Widdershins novel and this one is a difference between a snarky Young Adult novel and a mainstream heroic fantasy novel; the differences are just too stark, they stand out.

I can certainly say that I enjoyed Darksiders: The Abomination Vault far more than I did either Thief’s Covenant or False Covenant. With this novel, Ari explores the concepts of honour and brotherhood in a way that he doesn’t in those novels. Death was, to my great surprise, a rather snarky character himself, where I had been expecting this dour, gravely-voiced figure. He quips at all the right moments, he easily puts even the vaunted Charred Council on the back-foot, and he is so self-assured that he can give his “masters”, the Charred Council, the finger and they can’t do anything to him. They will threaten the most dire punishments and censure of course, but what separates Death’s arrogance from that of any other such character is that he is right and he knows exactly what he is doing. As the narrative unfolds, we learn that Death, being the oldest of the four Horsemen, is privy to a hell of a lot more knowledge about the Nephilim (the race the Horsemen belong to, its last survivors) than any other person living. And there are reasons for that too, as War eventually and inevitably, finds out.

For my money, Death is one of the coolest characters I’ve read of this year. ...more

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Nov 02, 2013 J rated it liked it

Shelves: science-fiction, fantasy, video-game-novels, 2013

Darksiders is a sort of medley of over the top action, fantasy, science fiction, and super heroes based in mythology.
There aren't a lot of books written about super heroes specifically because it is difficult to showcase the sort of action they can deliver in literature without coming off a little absurd or ridiculous.

This book suffers from this exact problem on multiple levels. The author presumes, and perhaps rightly so, that readers will have knowledge of the games and their content. Therefor Darksiders is a sort of medley of over the top action, fantasy, science fiction, and super heroes based in mythology.
There aren't a lot of books written about super heroes specifically because it is difficult to showcase the sort of action they can deliver in literature without coming off a little absurd or ridiculous.

This book suffers from this exact problem on multiple levels. The author presumes, and perhaps rightly so, that readers will have knowledge of the games and their content. Therefore, the book builds on preexisting lore and does little to clearly fill in the blanks for any who haven't experienced the source material before reading. The action struggles to capture the over the top action sequences with lengthy portrayals of elaborate acrobatics that are not difficult to visualize, but begin to feel tedious as the text that accompanies the seconds of action often take minutes of reading to absorb.

Overall the book does capture a large part of the Darksiders feel, particularly Death's surly sarcasm and overly confident attitude. The lore feels in tune. The plot feels in sync. It all comes together to make sense without traipsing outside of the established lore.

The biggest fault of the books is in the style of writing, itself. This is a story of fiction. Fantastic action scenes by super powered and immortal beings. In short, it is a work of fiction and most of what is contained within is impossible. However, the author feels the need to express any sort of extreme with the word "impossible". He jumped impossibly high, ran impossibly swift, with a strength that was impossible, holding a sword whose width was impossible. Seriously though, the word impossible/impossibly is on at least every other page and sometimes in several places on a single page. It really begins to feel like such a strange way to escape describing something.
It's fantasy. Of course it's impossible. Now give more details.

But worse than that is that the word is truly POINTLESS when used that way. If something seems impossible, ok it obviously wasn't. But when something is impossible--it's impossible. You can't say something that happened IS impossible without having a bit of disconnect. This author does it so often that the book was beginning to feel comically tedious at points. I found myself waiting for the next impossible episode of impossibly impossible impossibilities to impossibly occur.

This one particular hang up on a useless word is not the only utter waste of space within.
How many times do we need to be told that something "literally" happens. Or that something was a "veritable" version of itself? Only a few more examples... It all feels so redundant and essentially meaningless as the book plugs along.

2 Stars for generic descriptions and terrible use of language. 3 Stars for capturing the characters well and maintaining the setting and feel of Darksiders. ...more

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Mar 10, 2017 Love of Hopeless Causes rated it did not like it

Shelves: fantasy, horror

Apologetic and contradictory introduction, because stupid gamers aren't smart enough to understand Cosmic Horror, right? Prologue from Hell, mixed metaphors, confused mythologies, and that's just the opener. Audiobook reader at a nightmare's gallop. When will video game companies learn? ...more

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Oct 19, 2015 Petia Vladimirova rated it really liked it

Shelves: favorites

Great book!
I have to say I became realy obsessed! I started with Darksiders 2, then found there are art books, comics, Darksiders 1, and a full book, that it's a whole story and damn, it messed in my life till the moment I've got everything possible I could about it!
I've got a notebook for all Death's great quotes, including from game and the book, wallpapers, posters, necklace, everything.
I think the story is very adequate to these days and it says alot, beyond the battles and supernatural thin Great book!
I have to say I became realy obsessed! I started with Darksiders 2, then found there are art books, comics, Darksiders 1, and a full book, that it's a whole story and damn, it messed in my life till the moment I've got everything possible I could about it!
I've got a notebook for all Death's great quotes, including from game and the book, wallpapers, posters, necklace, everything.
I think the story is very adequate to these days and it says alot, beyond the battles and supernatural things. And characters couldn't be more perfect, plus the connection between Death and his crow. I just wish I could read more about Fury and Strife.
I rated it with four stars because of the end. I didn't liked it, no, I almost hated it.
SPOILER!!! SPOILER!!! SPOILER!!! After the moment Death felt so great guilt for War's death and we all became withesses how he actualy can feel, the end just broke me. Literaly. First, he gone to the Keeper, told him he regret alot of his past actions, we saw Death in many different situations as actualy not so bad personality... I started to love his character from the first word of him. And sending like that Balisatra to exile, mocking on Hadrimon's fate... Is Autor making fun of us or I missed something through the story? I couldn't accept that, after all I saw, after the games and the dialogues and the whole story where Death is actualy not such a badass, this end just didn't fit.

I also can say manner of writing is kinda chaotic. Too similar sentences, too long descriptions of battles and things that are not so important, and at the same time not enough details. There are absolutely nailing parts, like the neverending fights between War and Death. And such that could drive you crazy with their slow motion. Really, when you are awaken from death the last thing to explain would be how you crash trees. Death asked angel what happened and we read a few pages for nature with the same words over and over again.
AND... Death is not a savage, some moments makes those who read being disgusted. In games he helps others, spare things that are asking to be slayed, in here - not so realistic I have to say. Good fan fiction, but not good enough to be perfect. If it was me, I would write it otherway. ...more

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Oct 10, 2012 Puuush rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, video-games

First: I love Darksiders 1. I like Darksiders 2 though it really gets sloppy in the end. So I had to pick up the novel. :)

I didn't expect much but I was a bit dissapointed. I didn't regret it though.

Writing exciting action for overpowered horsemen is not easy I guess because everyone knows that Death just has to swing the scythe (or two scythes, or the scythe is now a hammer, and now a spear, and now a big scythe again) and everybody dies. Also every injury can be healed in no time... yeah, that First: I love Darksiders 1. I like Darksiders 2 though it really gets sloppy in the end. So I had to pick up the novel. :)

I didn't expect much but I was a bit dissapointed. I didn't regret it though.

Writing exciting action for overpowered horsemen is not easy I guess because everyone knows that Death just has to swing the scythe (or two scythes, or the scythe is now a hammer, and now a spear, and now a big scythe again) and everybody dies. Also every injury can be healed in no time... yeah, that's booooring. The actions and monsters were accurately descripted like they appear in the game. That's okay, but seemed forced most of the time. (But as it is a game-novel it's normal I guess)

The story was okay. Not too surprising but alright. A bit dissapointing that Death had conveniently all information on hand.

I liked the dry humor, I liked Dust and the horses. I also liked War a lot (but I'm a War-fangirl). But I certainly did not like the weak council, the pathetic Watchers or the uncreative worlds that were described in the story.
Especially I did not like how much more powerful Death stood above War. He's the horseman of ...well, WAR! And Death was a bit too afraid of dying for the fact that he is, well, Death.
(But that's a flaw in the games as well. The horsemen don't seem to have anything to do with the things they represent).
War might be his younger brother, but he's powerful too and has abilities Death lacks. Also players of Darksiders2 are very likely to have played Darksider 1 and will therefore have a strong attachment to War. Maybe even more than to Death. Author and publisher should have taken this into account.

Language/style: annoying!
Many repititions.
The overly use of the word "impossibly". Death always jumps impossibly high, the scythe slashes an impossibly amount of enemies, the wall he climbed was impossibly steep.
The usage of italics in nearly every sentence was really going on my nerves.
And the infamous sentence of doom could be found as well: "And then hell broke loose!"
It gets better in the end.

Overall - nice if you liked the games and are not the overly critical reader. ...more

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Jan 16, 2014 Andrew rated it it was ok

This is a tie-in novel for the _Darksiders_ videogame series. (The series was cancelled after two games when the development company cratered. But they commissioned this novel first.)

The writing is *not* the high point of the videogames. Neither is the characterization. Or the worldbuilding. To be blunt, these games are about great visuals and really excellent level and puzzle design. I was curious if those qualities could be translated into prose. Surprise! They can't. It's not a very good nove This is a tie-in novel for the _Darksiders_ videogame series. (The series was cancelled after two games when the development company cratered. But they commissioned this novel first.)

The writing is *not* the high point of the videogames. Neither is the characterization. Or the worldbuilding. To be blunt, these games are about great visuals and really excellent level and puzzle design. I was curious if those qualities could be translated into prose. Surprise! They can't. It's not a very good novel.

The setting, if you're unfamiliar with the games, is an extended Miltonian universe -- demons, angels, Hell, Heaven, and a liberal mash-in of whatever else the designers could think of. The protagonists are the Four Horsemen, here retconned as the four survivors of the extinct Nephilim. They go around pissing off Heaven and Hell on the orders of the mysterious Charred Council. The games take place after an Apocalypse-gone-wrong destroys the Earth. (Yes, Apocalypses can go wrong.) The book, in contrast, is set long before the birth of the human race. A cache of superweapons turns up; Death and War are sent out to deal with it before either the "good guys" or the "bad guys" can make a mess.

The author makes a serious attempt to capture the high-speed button-mashing combat of the game. Lots of lovingly-described acrobatic butchery. There's also lots of lovingly-described scenery (some beautiful, more horrific, just like in the games). It recalled the games to mind very well, but I don't know if non-players would get anything out of it.

The same goes for the characters. War and Death (plus their siblings* Fury and Strife, who would have starred in the next two games) are basically grunting hulk-monsters waving oversized anime weaponry. They get to be sarcastic in cut scenes, is the extent of them. To his credit, the book author sets up some character development -- the Horsemen have an actual sibling-like relationship, which is informed by their already-eons-old history as immortals and survivors of a dead race. But there's not a lot to it.

(* Fury is a Horsewoman, in case you were wondering.)
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Sep 08, 2012 Susan added it

Shelves: couldn-t-get-through

At first it seems like one of those movies made based on video games, where gamer fans watch because it's based on the game, not necessarily because it's something new and ground-breaking. The writing is REALLY wordy. As in, I was getting bored with it not even a chapter in and was going to give it up. Guess what stopped me?

Death.

Or the book's version. He's SARCASTIC (and so is his horse, it's snarky without ever saying anything). It's AWESOME. See example:

Again that irritating little laugh. “Wh ...more

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May 17, 2013 Lee Broderick rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, fiction-fantasy

I hadn't read any licensed fiction since some of the Drangonlance books in the early nineties, so this was a bit of a leap of faith for me. In truth, what I found was better than I feared and no worse than I expected. The story blazes along at a fair lick, with action sequence after action sequence - somewhat revealing of the IP's origins - and this kept my interest. The characters (or, at least, some of the characters) I already knew before reading this - that's why I picked it up, afterall - a ...more

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Jan 29, 2013 Rocki S. rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: keepers, e-book

I recently started playing Darksiders the game which compelled me to buy this Kindle book when I discovered it on Amazon. The game is quite thrilling and hope the book would be too. It met my expectations fantastically and without spoiling my game.

If you're familiar with the game, then this novel will please you. Death, the leader of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, is quite the snarky fellow you don't want to mess around with. His lines are the best in the book and makes reading this novel ...more

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Jun 09, 2015 Shane rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2015, audio, fantasy

I really didn't think I would like this but I've been using Overdrive to listen to audiobooks and the list is kinda sparse so I decided to give it a try. The narrator's voice was strange, too dramatic and it made it seem even cheaper than the fact that this was a book written about a video game. Also there was a LOT of fighting.

BUT I ended up really liking it. I really enjoy the whole "politics of Heaven and Hell" thing. I enjoyed it more in God's Demon but this was still a lot of fun, just lig ...more

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Sep 14, 2014 Qudduws Campbell rated it it was amazing

Not a bad story and it adds to the lore of the games, especially the 2nd in a nice way. There were a few wording issues that i had while reading but it was not enough to turn me away from completing it. Death is by far the most bad arse character in the Darksiders universe. He's flawed and he knows it. That adds a sense of reliability that i didn't find during the games. Then there's war who during the story seemed so much like a kid than I'd ever imaging possible. When around Death he's so casu ...more

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Mar 03, 2015 Kevin rated it liked it

For a novel based on a video game that I have never played, I actually enjoyed this quite a bit. There were moments when I could tell that playing the game would have given me a clearer picture of what was going on, but I don't think playing the game was really necessary. I consider that a pretty good thing for this kind of book. It was dark and full of demons and other creepy things that I enjoy, and yet it also had bad-ass angels fighting alongside the Horsemen of the Apocalypse and somehow th ...more

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Aug 22, 2017 Shawn rated it it was ok

Disclosure: At about 80% I started skimming as I was at the point where I just had to move on.

This one is hard for me to review. Darksiders is one of my all-time favorite game franchises, so I picked this one up without question, thinking it'd be as cool as the games. Now, it has its moments, and there's some cool characters (but already created by someone else) but for the most part I just fought my way through trying to finish so I could move onto something else. Now, there may be people who l ...more

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Jan 07, 2018 Xeraphym rated it really liked it

Let's be honest here, this book has no write to be nearly as good as it is. It's based on frigin Darksiders, an extremely niche audience even within the video game world. It's portrayal of Death and War is perfect, while Strife and Fury are... a bit less. It was their first time being anything above mentioned, and as such, their character's were changed (See Darksiders 3 and Genesis).
As a whole, the story of this book is extremely basic, like the games. It goes very straight to the point, "we ne ...more

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Sep 15, 2012 Lord Nouda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

3.5 Stars. This was pretty good. Darksiders: The Abomination Vault takes place way before the events in the actual game itself. He probably had a lot more creative leeway by not having to adhere to current game lore standards, and instead could depend on some semblance of creativity. I don't think it would been anywhere near as well written if he had to write about the actual game play. Thank God for that. ...more

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Mar 03, 2019 Kevin Potter rated it liked it

Okay, the first thing you have to understand is I am A Darksiders fanboy. I love everything about the hand franchise. So I cannot promise that my opinions are 100% unbiased.

The audiobook narrator was decent. His voices don't really resemble the character voices I've gotten used to from the games (it would have been AMAZING if they had gotten Michael Anthony Claudio Wincott and Liam Christopher Obrien to voice Death and War!), and his female voices sound just like his male voices. But his tempo v ...more

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About Ari Marmell

Ari Marmell

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When Ari Marmell has free time left over between feeding cats and posting on social media, he writes a little bit. His work includes novels, short stories, role-playing games, and video games, all of which he enjoyed in lieu of school work when growing up. He’s the author of the Mick Oberon gangland/urban fantasy series, the Widdershins YA fantasy series, and many others, with publishers such as D ...more

Books by Ari Marmell

Thief's Covenant (Widdershins Adventures, #1)

False Covenant (Widdershins Adventures, #2)

The Conqueror's Shadow (Corvis Rebaine #1)

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