The description of the battles and actions of the characters gave me a vivid image of what was going on. Where the Horus heresy series is great is when it tells you something about the history of a Primarch or a Legion you didn't know before and makes you want to see them again. And while this story is obviously a sequel on Raven's Flight, it is at the same time a sequel on Legion. While I found the chapters dealing with the recovery a little tedious, I cannot dispute their necessity to the story, as the intricately designed lock it presented made the defenses seem plausible and functional. Deliverance Lost' has characters with motivations and desires making decisions that have consequences.

Despite all the bits of pre-Legion history or the Alpha Legion shenanigans orchestrated by Alpharius and Omegon, the book really is about Corax. Band der 'Horus Heresy' Reihe, und konzentriert sich auf die Nachwirkungen des Istvaan V Massakers auf das Imperium. And don't get me started on the half assed attempt to give the Raven Guard a meaningful victory at the end in maybe a dozen pages max. Under instructions to sabotage the creation of the Raptors one of the undercover Alpha Legionnaires taints the gene-code with a poison distilled from daemon blood. J'avoue que, malgré que je n'y connaisse pas grand chose à cette légion, l'Alpha Legion est tout de même assez sympa.They play a part early on and have a pretty great scene midway, but due to logistical reasons they only take part again at the very end. Deliverance Lost concerns the actions of the Primarch Corvus Corax and the XIX th Space Marine Legion, the Raven Guard, during the year following the Drop Site Massacre on Istvaan V ( Book 5).

He personally is hurt and angry from these betrayals, causing Corax’s emotions and decisions to be unclear and irrational. After a tense and slow few weeks trying to escape the Isstvan system in Branne's stealthed ship Avenger Corax splits up the survivors, sending two ships back to Deliverance while continuing with one ship to Terra.Corax becomes obsessed with the creation of new legionaries and once the Magos Biologis and Raven Guard chief apothecary Vincente Sixx figure out how to use the gene-technology a new breed of Raven Guard legionaries is quickly bred and nicknamed "the Raptors. The interactions between the dual Alpha Legion primarchs and their confederates/erstwhile bosses are fun. Corax announces that Valerius's forces will hold the fortress against traitor counter-attack with the aid of other loyalist forces who are on their way before leading the Raven Guard into their next attack.

Nothing huge happens that effects the main story of the horus heresy so probably can skip but as a fan of raven guard I was excited to get some info on the faction.Infiltrierte Agente befinden sich schon in den Reihen der Raven Guard und warten nur auf den richtigen Augenblick um zuzuschlagen. I’ve also thought about my own brothers and how we’ve confronted each other before and how we have responded to each other. It's a greater effort for the reader to find the flaws in the scheme than to have to cobble it together. The book should be for at least 14+ because of how detailed the story can get, and plus just violence in general. In the Horus Heresy series there was first an audio drama about how the remainder of the legion was saved from Isstvan V, and later a short story about an invisible enemy hand behind that rescue, the Alpha Legion.

This, to me, seems like a cool counterpoint to Konrad Curze, the Night Haunter, who grew up in darkness as well, but had nobody to rely on or to trust, nobody to teach him right from wrong. Initially, conflict is replaced by intrigue and a quest to uncover the genetic secrets of the Emperor's primarch project.

Far from it, there isn't that much fighting here, the enemies are time, and those unseen forces who loom over the Raven Guard even though they never actually appear in the book. Granted access to ancient secrets, Corax begins to rebuild the Raven Guard, planning his revenge against his treacherous brother primarchs. Du côté des loyalistes, Corvax rencontre son frère Dorn sur Terra et au vu des tensions et trahisons, les Space Marines de Corvax sont sous surveillance mais au final tout se passe bien car Corvax se voit donner une issue à la perte de plusieurs Space Marines de sa légion au vu de la trahison du coup. The (very) good Warhammer books punch you in the face with unrelenting bolter fire then end before you realized that there wasn't that much story or what was wasn't actually very good.