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Space Marine Battles #19
Tyrant of the Hollow Worlds
When Huron Blackheart leads his warband of Red Corsairs to attack the Hollow Worlds of Lastrati, the human defenders can do little to protect themselves against such powerful enemies. Will the arrival of the Space Wolves turn the tide?
The Imperium fights a constant battle to defend itself from its many enemies, but few are as deadly or as relentless as the Chaos Space Marines. Bearing a grudge that dates back 10,000 years to the Heresy, these fallen angels are driven by hatred and an overwhelming desire for revenge. When Huron Blackheart leads his warband of Red Corsairs to attack the Hollow Worlds of Lastrati, the human defenders can do little to protect themselves against such powerful enemies. By the time the Space Wolves arrive, the Red Corsairs are already well entrenched. With neither side prepared to withdraw nor concede defeat, the battle spirals out of control – will the Hollow Worlds be destroyed by the forces of destruction that have been unleashed?
What are the Hollow Worlds? Are they actually hollow? And what does the Tyrant of Badab want with them? Find out the answers to all these questions, and get a healthy dose of Space Wolves vs Chaos action in this epic novel.
The Imperium fights a constant battle to defend itself from its many enemies, but few are as deadly or as relentless as the Chaos Space Marines. Bearing a grudge that dates back 10,000 years to the Heresy, these fallen angels are driven by hatred and an overwhelming desire for revenge. When Huron Blackheart leads his warband of Red Corsairs to attack the Hollow Worlds of Lastrati, the human defenders can do little to protect themselves against such powerful enemies. By the time the Space Wolves arrive, the Red Corsairs are already well entrenched. With neither side prepared to withdraw nor concede defeat, the battle spirals out of control – will the Hollow Worlds be destroyed by the forces of destruction that have been unleashed?
What are the Hollow Worlds? Are they actually hollow? And what does the Tyrant of Badab want with them? Find out the answers to all these questions, and get a healthy dose of Space Wolves vs Chaos action in this epic novel.
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Published December 1, 2016
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July 16, 2022
Finished at 430 am as I could not sleep. Should have chosen a more boring book! I enjoyed this book. Normally the way Marines get described fighting makes them out to be too weak. A few things to me didnt make sense and seemed like lazy tools for the story. But hey, it's a fantasy world in the future, guess anything can go!
February 27, 2023
Ive been reading this novel for awhile and its characters are so thrilling and devious and malicious. I absolutely love the chaos marines and all the grim dark about them. That the other thing about this novel the amount of grim darkness is so juicy, absolutely a ten out ten book.
February 28, 2023
Quite boring.
January 21, 2020
So many potential, but it got cut short.
The novel takes on one of the Red Corsair exploit in conquering a system.
Story
Huron sets his goal into pillaging a system known to be the hollow world. Hollow world is a system where it's covered by clouds that disrupt conventional space faring. What makes it called hollow is the fact that people live inside the planet, which all the planets are hollow but has its own sun.
The story will followed the red corsair as they conquering the planet without clear objective by their leader. Along the way, they'll encounter the imperial forces ranging from pdf, Tallarn guard, and finally the space wolves.
Character
The novel despite focusing on the Warband somehow giving more spot light to the opposing army.
Rotaka is the main character where he's quite bland while being a Red Corsair and surrounded by his unique squad member, unfortunately they're barely fleshed out. He did has some unique background which only being brought up near the end. Interaction wise, he's bland and feels like his inner struggle is lacking in actual manifestation.
Huron is potrayed as unstoppable force in the novel but has a lack of motivation why he set the invasion or why he didn't tell his closed liutenants about his plan. You could say he's just there without giving true presence and might be able to be replaced by any chaos champion.
Other character of somewhat the inner circle do appears like Gareeon, Valthex, and finally Anton. These people however have lacks any sort of personality or their moment to shine.
Suprisingly other they show more competent and fleshed out character from the other side.
Like a Governour that rather competent, at least for his type. There's an inquisitor who's determined to stop Huron. A Tallarn with short and minor role but somewhat memorable. A cadian that has a crazy luck but this is 40k and you'll know why. And the space wolves appears, and focused to three or two of them for most of the part at the middle to the end.
This is the problem, they show many more minor and major character that is not the Red Corsair. This makes some of the moment less personal for the corsair. In fact the corsair felt just like any other warbands plus Huron. The Red Corsair doesn't feel like the mighty Red Corsair often depicted by the codex. At least in Word Bearer they show the spiritual dedication by the marine.
Narration
One of the problem for me in most warhammer novel or rather every novel is what's being focused more. The novel describe more of the environment or the surrounding instead the character. This makes the environment shines while the character just fade.
The narration also shows inner thinking of the character which explain well on their decision, mostly. They could give more narration to Huron than just being a two dimensional war lord whose moving around when the plots needed to advance.
It also describe well most of the battle although it need to work on the pace. Some of the battle feels like being passed away in a short time. Some feels like being stretched and might be unnecessary.
Come to think of it, there might one chapter where they could just make a short reference since it didn't give the weight to the next or rest of the story.
Conclusion
Despite it's a red corsair novel, I somehow understand more about their enemy than the warband. As a result, i don't really care with the corsair which is a shame and since its a one shot novel they waste the potential to make any follow up. If they ever make any follow up, it would feels disjointed since the novel conclusion is not my taste.
In the end, you might be better to avoid this one. It has the Red Corsair but like i've said over and over before, they just behaved like any other warband.
The novel takes on one of the Red Corsair exploit in conquering a system.
Story
Huron sets his goal into pillaging a system known to be the hollow world. Hollow world is a system where it's covered by clouds that disrupt conventional space faring. What makes it called hollow is the fact that people live inside the planet, which all the planets are hollow but has its own sun.
The story will followed the red corsair as they conquering the planet without clear objective by their leader. Along the way, they'll encounter the imperial forces ranging from pdf, Tallarn guard, and finally the space wolves.
Character
The novel despite focusing on the Warband somehow giving more spot light to the opposing army.
Rotaka is the main character where he's quite bland while being a Red Corsair and surrounded by his unique squad member, unfortunately they're barely fleshed out. He did has some unique background which only being brought up near the end. Interaction wise, he's bland and feels like his inner struggle is lacking in actual manifestation.
Huron is potrayed as unstoppable force in the novel but has a lack of motivation why he set the invasion or why he didn't tell his closed liutenants about his plan. You could say he's just there without giving true presence and might be able to be replaced by any chaos champion.
Other character of somewhat the inner circle do appears like Gareeon, Valthex, and finally Anton. These people however have lacks any sort of personality or their moment to shine.
Suprisingly other they show more competent and fleshed out character from the other side.
Like a Governour that rather competent, at least for his type. There's an inquisitor who's determined to stop Huron. A Tallarn with short and minor role but somewhat memorable. A cadian that has a crazy luck but this is 40k and you'll know why. And the space wolves appears, and focused to three or two of them for most of the part at the middle to the end.
This is the problem, they show many more minor and major character that is not the Red Corsair. This makes some of the moment less personal for the corsair. In fact the corsair felt just like any other warbands plus Huron. The Red Corsair doesn't feel like the mighty Red Corsair often depicted by the codex. At least in Word Bearer they show the spiritual dedication by the marine.
Narration
One of the problem for me in most warhammer novel or rather every novel is what's being focused more. The novel describe more of the environment or the surrounding instead the character. This makes the environment shines while the character just fade.
The narration also shows inner thinking of the character which explain well on their decision, mostly. They could give more narration to Huron than just being a two dimensional war lord whose moving around when the plots needed to advance.
It also describe well most of the battle although it need to work on the pace. Some of the battle feels like being passed away in a short time. Some feels like being stretched and might be unnecessary.
Come to think of it, there might one chapter where they could just make a short reference since it didn't give the weight to the next or rest of the story.
Conclusion
Despite it's a red corsair novel, I somehow understand more about their enemy than the warband. As a result, i don't really care with the corsair which is a shame and since its a one shot novel they waste the potential to make any follow up. If they ever make any follow up, it would feels disjointed since the novel conclusion is not my taste.
In the end, you might be better to avoid this one. It has the Red Corsair but like i've said over and over before, they just behaved like any other warband.
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