The Beast Arises: Volume 2

The Beast Arises #5-8

by Guy Haley (Contributor), David Guymer, David Annandale

The Imperium’s situation has never been more grim – an ork attack moon hangs over Terra, and ork armadas ravage human space. It seems nothing can stop the greenskins – neither brute force, science, nor faith. When the Adeptus Mechanicus reveal they have discovered the orks’ point of origin, the Space Marines gather their forces for a massive assault on their enemy’s home world. But what the Imperial forces need is a figurehead, a hero from legend to lead them – a primarch. Can one these figures from legend be found, let alone persuaded to aid them?

CONTENTS

Throneworld by Guy Haley
Echoes of the Long War by David Guymer
The Hunt for Vulkan by David Annandale
The Beast Must Die by Gav Thorpe

The War of the Beast continues – but with aeldari on Terra, an ork attack moon in orbit, and no figurehead to lead the Imperium's armies, the situation looks grim. What they need is a primarch…

READ IT BECAUSE

It's the middle act of Black Library's astonishing event series, and secrets are revealed – like the true fate of one of the legendary primarchs.

Genres: Science Fiction, 40k

794 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 24, 2018

About the author

Guy Haley is the author of over 50 novels and novellas. His original fiction includes Crash, Champion of Mars, and the Richards and Klein, Dreaming Cities, and the Gates of the World series (as K M McKinley). However, he is best known as a prolific contributor to Games Workshop's Black Library imprint.

When not writing, he'll be out doing something dangerous in the wild, learning languages or gaming.

Reviews

[Andrew A · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very obvious middle chapter in an epic saga.

Following a stellar cliff hanger. The opening book tells a confusing but quite intense tale of an epic battle.

And that sort of becomes the theme.

A LOT of bolter porn in this book, as the careful political machinations and tour of imperial factions and the fractured webs of alliances they formed quickly takes a back seat to some standard space marines obsession.

And while some arcs do develop into fascinating tales ( the loyalist and heretic former friends turned enemies storyline was an excellent thematic diversion)

And some very inventive technical achievements by the orks.

This felt like too much in the way of battles and not enough of the intrigue.

Also a slightly weaker cadre of authors with one author who seemingly only communicated in nouns.

Still some of those battles were great some interesting twists and turns

And its the middle section.

Let's see how act 3 plays out

[Aaron Cliff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun: The Romp Continues

[Skyler · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Beast Arises is a good book for those who enjoy the Warhammer 40k Setting. It gives an outlook on the conflict between the Beast and the Imperium.

It was well written and in all enjoyable.