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No cover — Dan Abnett: Xenos (Paperback, 2001, Black Library Publishing)

Paperback, 320 pages

English language

Published May 1, 2001 by Black Library Publishing.

ISBN:: 978-0-7434-1169-1

(1 review)

The thundering sound rolled through the thawing vaults of Processional Two-Twelve. Fists and palms, beating at coffin hoods. The sleepers were waking, their frigid bodies trapped in their caskets. I could hear footsteps above the screams. Eyclone was running. I ran after, passing gallery after gallery of frenzied, flailing forms. The screaming, the pounding… God-Emperor help me, I will never forget that. Thousands of souls waking up to death, frantic, agonised. Damn Eyclone. Damn him to hell and back.

The Inquisition moves amongst mankind like an avenging shadow, striking down the enemies of humanity with uncompromising ruthlessness. Inquisitor Eisenhorn faces a vast interstellar cabal and the dark power of daemons, all racing to recover an arcane text of abominable power – an ancient tome known as the Necroteuch.

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joelchrono reviewed Xenos by Dan Abnett (Eisenhorn Trilogy, #1)

Review of Xenos by Dan Abnett

4 stars

I didn’t really keep going with First and Only, a novel from the Warhammer 40K universe I started, this one, however, from the same author, hooked me pretty hard, it is a bit of a long story. The hype and stakes are pretty cool, its not like what I usually think about when I think of Warhammer, this story is not about Space Marines or epic space battles. This is about an inquisitor, who gets rid of heretics, xenos and mutants, and it is a bit of a detective story unraveling a pretty big conspiracy against the Empire, heresy indeed.

At some point it got a bit more space warfare rather than mystery solving which turned me off just a little bit, but twists and turns keep me hooked still.

Overall, it was pretty good and entertaining, I have to say I got a little bit lost in the end …

I didn’t really keep going with First and Only, a novel from the Warhammer 40K universe I started, this one, however, from the same author, hooked me pretty hard, it is a bit of a long story. The hype and stakes are pretty cool, its not like what I usually think about when I think of Warhammer, this story is not about Space Marines or epic space battles. This is about an inquisitor, who gets rid of heretics, xenos and mutants, and it is a bit of a detective story unraveling a pretty big conspiracy against the Empire, heresy indeed.

At some point it got a bit more space warfare rather than mystery solving which turned me off just a little bit, but twists and turns keep me hooked still.

Overall, it was pretty good and entertaining, I have to say I got a little bit lost in the end but I got the job done. I hope to read some more of this series later on. It was pretty good.