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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Galaxy in Flames, Ben Counter</h1>
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2019-11-20
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/horus-heresy/">#horus heresy</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/ben-counter/">#ben counter</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/scifi/">#scifi</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/warhammer-40000/">#warhammer 40000</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-2/">#stars:2</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2006/">#published:2006</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815091.Galaxy_in_Flames">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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Having recovered from his grievous injuries, Warmaster Horus leads the
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triumphant Imperial forces against the rebel world of Isstvan III. Though the
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rebels are swiftly crushed, Horus's treachery is finally revealed when the
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planet is razed by virus bombs and Space Marines turn on their battle-brothers
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in the most bitter struggle imaginable.</p>
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★★☆☆☆
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<p>Not much an improvement from the previous books.</p>
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<p>The plot could be seen from several books ago, so there is no big plot twist
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-- although one could say that there is one, a la George R. R. Martin
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("oooohhhh, so edgy!"). But the general plot could be seen from the very start
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of the book, so there was no big surprise.</p>
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<p>Also, some of very old clichés of every story are so used and abused that,
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when there is something "out of order" happening, you feel a bit like "yeah
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yeah, go on". There are no surprises, no twist that you can't predict pages
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ago.</p>
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<p>And yet, there is one glaring plot hole that started in the previous book and
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still isn't explained: Why it happened? When did it happen?</p>
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<p>Two books and no answer.</p>
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<p>Also, the idea of ending blocks of text (think as subchapters inside the real
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chapters) all end in cliff-hangers, to the point that, when the story gets
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faster -- and the blocks smaller -- the amount of cliff-hangering is simply
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annoying.</p>
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<p>On top of that, there is some weird character personalities changing from
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white to black -- which also happened in the previous book, but not with the
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intensity of what happened in this one -- that it feels more like a previous
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character just died and they put a new one with the same name.</p>
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<p>The book got to the point that I almost relish on spoilers -- which I did look
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-- 'cause, honestly, I'm not sure I can stand so much of this thing.</p>
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