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The End and the Death: Volume III

The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra, Book 8, Part 3

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The End and the Death: Volume III

By: Dan Abnett
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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Siege of Terra Book 8, Part 3

It all comes down to this final confrontation – the Emperor versus the Warmaster. The father versus the son. After 63 novels and a slew of short stories, omnibuses, audio dramas, and more – this is the End and the Death.

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The Horus Heresy series reaches its dramatic climax. After years of civil war, the Emperor and Horus clash aboard the Vengeful Spirit in an epic battle of blades, wits, and wills. See how the greatest conflict of the age plays out, and follow fan-favourite characters from across the saga as they desperately try to influence the outcome.

THE STORY

The Great Angel, Sanguinius, lies slain at his brother's hand. Terra burns as reality itself unravels, and the greatest bastion of civilisation teeters on the brink of annihilation.

Desperate defenders gather, banding against the rabid traitor hordes. The Hollow Mountain, host to the pilgrims of Euphrati Keeler, is one of the last redoubts held by the Dark Angels while the unclean host of Typhus lays siege. Malcador the Sigillite sits ablaze on the Golden Throne, trying to buy his master more time. But time is running out...

Guilliman races across the stars to reinforce the Throneworld. Will he return to ashes, where a Warmaster of Chaos has ascended to godhood, or will the Emperor have triumphed? And at what cost?

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Satisfying Conclusion • Epic Battle Scenes • Golden Voice • Humanized Characters • Masterful Storytelling
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Fantastic ending to this amazing series. Shocked at how many loose ends were addressed perfectly and epic story telling as well.

Near perfect ending

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I’m sure this book will get a lot of flak from long-time fans, but I absolutely loved the climax. The final battle was an absolute blast to hear, Dan does such a good job portraying the mind-bending scale of Horus’s power. Far better than the old lore, which made the Emperor out to be a dullard, and Horus as a weakling that only managed to hurt the Emperor because of “love”.

Retconning Done Right

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Overall the book was very good. Until during the amazing anticipated battle between Horus and the Emperor when things were getting good and exciting they decided to sit down and have freakin game of Uno completely killing the flow of the battle and story.

Great listen

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every moment of this book was amazing and is the best in all of horus heresy

straight slaps

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I'd like to hear where the lion is, and a wider perspective of guilliman. overall great book

Constantine explaining how he liked sanguinius

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This is one of the books of all time, just wish it had more details on the fate of secondary characters.

Closure is a curse that leave you wanting

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What can I say about this book….. just wow I am so glad I stuck through all 70 odd books in this series. Fantastic ending and beginning to War Hammer 40k!!!!

The God EMPIRE

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Despite the inconsistencies in HH series (even within the EaTD sub trilogy!) Abnett & co have done the best job one could ask for in bringing this opera to an end.

A Fitting End

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Keeble and Abnett deliver a capstone performance to a series that began in 2006. The tragedy, the death of dreams, the indomitable human spirit, and the birth of the grim-darkness of the far future that knows only war… it’s all here. Read it, if you dare. Here be monsters and men, angels and daemons, and worse besides. The circle has closed, the ouroborus has at last, its’ tail consumed. A Death, but not the End.

The End of the Story, but not The Death

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Abnett managed to humanize every character and every interaction save, perhaps, for the Emperor who still seems more aloof and unknowable than even the physical manifestations of Chaos. Nothing is wrong with the story, the pacing is fine, the dialogue and prose is solid, it also admirably resists the urge to put a spin on the well-treaded story of the culmination of the Horus Heresy without any major departures or reinterpretations of the mythos. And if that were all there was to it, this would be a five-star-across-the-board story. However that is not all there is to it.

One may, perhaps, have to be more generous with ranking the story if it were not for the fact of how emotionally draining it is. It was well written, well paced, and of course brilliantly acted by Jonathan Keeble. It was not near so grim and dark as many other entries in this property and genre, but the story extracts a hefty emotional toll from the listener regardless.

This story is the archetypal example of "don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened" and with enough time and possibly subsequent listens, one may reach that point. But for the first time, just prepare to feel numb and unsure how to process the feelings.

The End and the Death Feels Real Now

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