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Blood Angels #1-4
Blood Angels – The Complete Rafen Omnibus
This omnibus edition collects together for the first time the four Blood Angels novels of author James Swallow and includes several bonus short stories. The full story of Blood Angels Brother Rafen. From humble battle-brother to war-hardened sergeant, Rafen survives civil war, Chaos plots and the calling of destiny in four novels by James Swallow.
In this epic tale of brotherhood and darkness, the Blood Angels face strife from within when Brother Arkio claims to be a reincarnation of Sanguinius, the Blood Angels’ spiritual father. His message is follow me or die. With no other choice, his brother Rafen kneels before this prophet of the Blood and swears an oath of devotion. But in his heart, Rafen knows that Arkio cannot be allowed to lead the Chapter into darkness. A reckoning is coming, one that they will not both survive.
As the ashes settle on the devastating by civil war, the Blood Angels face a dire crisis and must call together their Successor Chapters or face extinction. But the sons of Sanguinius have many enemies, and this audacious scheme to rebuild their ranks comes under threat by the machinations of the arch-traitor Fabius Bile.
In this epic tale of brotherhood and darkness, the Blood Angels face strife from within when Brother Arkio claims to be a reincarnation of Sanguinius, the Blood Angels’ spiritual father. His message is follow me or die. With no other choice, his brother Rafen kneels before this prophet of the Blood and swears an oath of devotion. But in his heart, Rafen knows that Arkio cannot be allowed to lead the Chapter into darkness. A reckoning is coming, one that they will not both survive.
As the ashes settle on the devastating by civil war, the Blood Angels face a dire crisis and must call together their Successor Chapters or face extinction. But the sons of Sanguinius have many enemies, and this audacious scheme to rebuild their ranks comes under threat by the machinations of the arch-traitor Fabius Bile.
- GenresScience Fiction40k
960 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2019
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About the author
James Swallow
308 books1,082 followersJames Swallow is a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon #1 bestselling author and scriptwriter, a BAFTA nominee, a former journalist and the award-winning writer of over sixty-five books, along with scripts for video games, comics, radio and television.
DARK HORIZON, his latest stand-alone thriller, is out now from Mountain Leopard Press, and OUTLAW, the 6th action-packed Marc Dane novel, is published by Bonnier.
Along with the Marc Dane thrillers, his writing includes, the Sundowners steampunk Westerns and fiction from the worlds of Star Trek, Tom Clancy, 24, Warhammer 40000, Doctor Who, Deus Ex, Stargate, 2000AD and many more.
For information on new releases & more, sign up to the Readers’ Club here: www.bit.ly/JamesSwallow
Visit James's website at http://www.jswallow.com/ for more, including ROUGH AIR, a free eBook novella in the Marc Dane series.
You can also follow James on Bluesky at @jmswallow.bsky.social, Twitter at @jmswallow, Mastodon at @jmswallow@mstdn.social and jmswallow.tumblr.com at Tumblr.
DARK HORIZON, his latest stand-alone thriller, is out now from Mountain Leopard Press, and OUTLAW, the 6th action-packed Marc Dane novel, is published by Bonnier.
Along with the Marc Dane thrillers, his writing includes, the Sundowners steampunk Westerns and fiction from the worlds of Star Trek, Tom Clancy, 24, Warhammer 40000, Doctor Who, Deus Ex, Stargate, 2000AD and many more.
For information on new releases & more, sign up to the Readers’ Club here: www.bit.ly/JamesSwallow
Visit James's website at http://www.jswallow.com/ for more, including ROUGH AIR, a free eBook novella in the Marc Dane series.
You can also follow James on Bluesky at @jmswallow.bsky.social, Twitter at @jmswallow, Mastodon at @jmswallow@mstdn.social and jmswallow.tumblr.com at Tumblr.
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October 22, 2020
This gave me such an in depth look at not just the Blood Angel's but a better understanding of the Adeptus Astartes in general. I found out that there are numerous chapters who hail to Sanguinious(this happened after the Horus Heresy). They all don't get along real well, as some of them are a bit more Savage then the actual Blood Angel's and they are jealous of the Blood Angel's due to how much closer they are to Sanguinious than the others.
This omnibus follows Rafen. A steadfast, never flinching Space Marine of Faith to the Emperor and his primarch Sanguinious(who died in the Horus Heresy, fighting his brother Horus...which you will learn about some in this book and more if you were to read the Horus Heresy which I plan to do)
Rafen doesn't have it easy(no Space Marine does). Everything is thrown at him along with the kitchen sink. Many times I could see where someone who would lose faith and give up but he doesn't have that luxury, for he believes in the cause and many of his brethren and his superiors believe in him.
I continue to grow my knowledge in the 40K universe but I have a long way to go. I like the Blood Angel's alot since they are really the only Space Marines I've really only read about. But I will read about more.
Look for more of my reviews to come.
This omnibus follows Rafen. A steadfast, never flinching Space Marine of Faith to the Emperor and his primarch Sanguinious(who died in the Horus Heresy, fighting his brother Horus...which you will learn about some in this book and more if you were to read the Horus Heresy which I plan to do)
Rafen doesn't have it easy(no Space Marine does). Everything is thrown at him along with the kitchen sink. Many times I could see where someone who would lose faith and give up but he doesn't have that luxury, for he believes in the cause and many of his brethren and his superiors believe in him.
I continue to grow my knowledge in the 40K universe but I have a long way to go. I like the Blood Angel's alot since they are really the only Space Marines I've really only read about. But I will read about more.
Look for more of my reviews to come.
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November 10, 2024
Okay pulp with moments of greatness
This omnibus is probably a 3.5 on the whole. There are gripping moments interspersed with occasional slogs. Raven was a decent enough character and I enjoyed learning a little more about the lore of the Blood Angels.
This omnibus is probably a 3.5 on the whole. There are gripping moments interspersed with occasional slogs. Raven was a decent enough character and I enjoyed learning a little more about the lore of the Blood Angels.
January 10, 2024
A fun read.
January 7, 2022
I enjoyed the fist and third books in this collection. The other two seemed rushed and sub par.
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