I’m looking for something new to read, and am curious which books others liked. Personally, I haven’t read many of the “main chronology” books, but I’ve enjoyed a lot of the one-offs.
Personally, my favorites so far would be Brutal Kunnin, and Assassinorum Kingmaker. Both have decent plot, well-written characters, and are fast paced enough for my short attention span.
I also enjoyed the rest of Mike Brooks’s ork books, although none lived up to Brutal Kunnin due to the weaker plots and lack of variety, and I enjoyed Titanicus, but found that it struggled to depict the titan’s scale, and it failed to close out the story after all the build up. Dead Men Walk also wasn’t bad, and illustrated the setting well, but the plot and characters weren’t very compelling.
I also read The Oubliette, but found that it fell very flat, unfortunately. Reading the author’s comments on Reddit, I see what he was trying to achive, but it feels extremely rushed and underbaked after the first half.
I’ve also tried to read Eisenhorn and and Cadian Honour, but so far, have bounced off of both due to the slow start.
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I enjoyed the “Gaunt’s Ghosts” series (Dan Abnett, iirc).
Yes indeed, also by Abnett is the Eisenhorn and Ravenhorn series. He also had a few one offs.
I also quite like the Cyphas Cain books
Oh Infinite and the Divine for sure
I quite enjoyed the high kahl’s oath, except the ending which is very adrupt and kind of sucks. It feels a little like they cut the book 100 pages short…actually, I don’t recommend kt
I strongly recommend the Ciaphas Cain series by Sandy Mitchell. It’s more Blackadder in Space, but imo aside from the few Ork books I’ve read, it’s probably the most inline with the core satire of the 40K setting.
OK… I’ll be the one: It’s not 40K, but 30K, but I really enjoyed most of the Horus Heresy books I’ve read so far (just started 15 this week). There are really good ones and some that are quite mediocre, but each has been interesting and they show the conflict from different sides and factions, too.
Last chancers stuff. Gaunts ghosts Double Eagle (air combat stuff)
Various omnibus’: soul drinkers Inquisiton war Grey knights Ahriman Forges of Mars Etc.
Dante and Devastation of Baal are really good.
My favorites have been mostly the chaos marine stories as Ive found they have some of the most interesting characters.
The nightlords omnibus is incredible, all the characters in it are memorable, it has great battles, including naval battles, and a lot of dark humor throughout. The dialogue between characters Is also believable written.
The ahriman series and the fabius bile series are also a lot of fun. Both have awesome characters (of which where should be more models of!).
For 1 off books, lords of silence was definitely up there in the rankings for me, as well as lords of the night.
Finally for a not chaos book, The infinite and the Divine is a riot of a comedy about Trazyn the infinite and his arch rival.
