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  • Battle for the Abyss

  • The Horus Heresy, Book 8
  • By: Ben Counter
  • Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
  • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (417 ratings)

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Battle for the Abyss

By: Ben Counter
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
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Now that news of Horus' treachery is in the open, a time of testing has come. Some Legions have already declared their allegiance to the Warmaster while the loyalty of others lies firmly with the Emperor. As Horus deploys his forces, loyalist Astartes learn that a massive Wordbearers fleet is heading to Ultramar, home of the Ultramarines.

Unless they can intercept the fleet and destroy the mighty battleship that has been sent to reinforce it, the Ultramarines may suffer a blow from which they will never recover.

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Not bad at all

It's not as bad as some reviewers say it is :)

I enjoyed it but its definitely not one of the greatest.

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🙃

Recommend to skip this one, I didn’t even finish it, there are so many good ones coming up don’t waste your credit

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honour

this story is excellent and the narrator is awesome all fans if 40k should listen to this whole series.

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Great book!

Another great addition to the series and unique in the space marines that it casts together. Great book

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Painfully Bad

This was a chore to get through; cartoonishly one note characters, poor pacing, just the premise alone breaks canon let alone what happens afterwards, and a myriad of other problems. This reads like a fan fiction off of tumblr, who approved this!? If I wasn't forcing myself to go through all the Horus Heresy books I would have skipped this one after a couple chapters.

I DO NOT RECOMMEND. Nothing of value is gained reading this book, nothing of value is lost skipping it. Just skip to Mechanicum, it's one of the best books in the series.

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lack of direction

it's such an average read. there is minimal character building and no direction for the story. I was lost must of the time and just couldn't get in to it. I wish I had skiped it

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Loved it

Great voice performance and plenty of action throughout. Minimal impact to overall story but none the less very enjoyable

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Good Listen. Anticlimactic ending.

Want to know why no one ever mentions this book? Well, listen to find out! The ending left an empty void in my soul and it literally has no impact on the Horus heresy as a whole. Written so well until the last chapter. If you think how I met your mothers ending was good then you will love this book.

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Not bad,

Definitely hit a lull in the middle of the book, drawn out, probably supposed to be suspenseful, thought the juxtaposition of such different chapters was interesting, though the ultramarines weren’t really explored in depth for my taste.

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Skippable

Look, out of all the HH books I’ve read to this point this has been by far the most skippable.

The two biggest issues that come to mind are that 1) The story has no relevance to the overarching story, this doesn’t have to matter at all but, 2) The story I found was incredibly uninteresting, the characters felt static and the plot was a very long game of cat and mouse that didn’t change till the last hour of the book. In comparison to something like Fulgrim, that showed the Emperors Children’s downfall and how every character in the book evolved with the circumstances and even ended on a sad but enjoyable ending.

All in all, good voice acting but weak story.

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