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I very much appreciate too that for as cool and capable as Gregor and his team are, they aren’t completely perfect or un-damageable. It makes them feel so much more tactile than most 40k protagonists.

Restarting this (because my local library is getting me print copies of them finally!) and very happy to find that it still kicks wholesale ass. Also might have welled up a bit because I forgot how it introduced Bequin. Precisely the fun I needed rn.

This is getting impossible to put down now.

My first(ish) encounter with a Chaos Space Marine. That’s good villainy right there.

How badass it is that Eisenhorn and his crew have a secret Latin based code-speak for use in the field (that Eisenhorn HIMSELF wrote)?

Might be TOO badass some say.

this book is VERY good about laying out all the rules and arcana of 40k but I wasn’t expecting how charming all the characters are. Eisenhorn’s whole team is so cool. you don’t really think “affability” when someone describes to you a hulking zealot in garish power armor who knows about 450 different ways to kill you but somehow Abnett nails it Gregor is such a weirdly charming protagonist. I don’t get it

Picking this up proper from where I left off from the sample of the Omnibus I feel like I’m gonna be okay owning all these digitally.