Poor writing, bad characters, predictable and dull plots. Gav Thorpe - I'm going to catch some shit for this, because he's an OG GW staffer and is loved for that as much as his apparent success as an author, but I really don't rate the guy at all. The one about Sisters of battle was pretty good, but I can't find it on the BL website any more or even remember the name.Īndy Hoare - Written some ok space Marine stuff.Ĭhris Wraight - Ditto.
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James Swallow - Blood Angels series started well, went a bit wonky afterwards. The Horus Heresy series in general - These vary a bit in terms of quality based on Author, but generally (assuming you like the setting) these seem to be a bit more entertaining than the stock 40k stuff - possibly because the authors are given a bit more leeway in what they can do, possibly because BL are a bit more picky with their editing since it's a 'flagship' series. Still worth a look, especially the first 3 or 4. However, the ongoing series got very repetitious very quickly, and the new guy that took over did nothing to alter the somewhat generic formula and (now) stale writing style. William King - This guy gets a lot of love for the original ****Slayer Gotrek & Felix book(s) and quite rightly so, as they were some of the first really engaging Warhammer protagonists. Although I've enjoyed some of his stuff (Storm of Iron is pretty good for an uncomplicated, trashy war story), I often find myself unable to finish McNeill's books because he breaks pretty much every rule of good writing - telling not showing, repeating words and turns of phrases within the same couple of paragraphs, spinning off into long, rambling exposition, protagonists suddenly acting hugely out of character purely to shoehorn in a plot element or twist etc.
Until ADB came along, Counter was pretty much the only person to do vaguely interesting Marines right. He also does a pretty good job of keeping the balance between protagonists that are oddly likable but in no way 'good' or sympathetic.īen Counter - Soul Drinkers series is a passable, if a little overboard in places take on a rogue marine chapter.
I haven't read many recently, but from my previous experience:ĭan Abnett - Eisenhorn Trilogy, Ravenor Trilogy Gaunt's Ghosts series, almost anything else he's written (Though personally not a fan of the Darkblade stuff and thought Iron Snakes went a bit overboard with the Spartan references).Īaron Dembski-Bowden - Nightlords trilogy is pretty much the best series going that has Space Marines as protagonists he manages to write them as genuinely interesting characters rather than than dull, one-dimensional uber-badass teenage power fantasies. Ok, I'm going to be lazy and just copy/paste what I wrote in a similar thread a few weeks back.
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