warragh's review
5.0
During the war for Rynn's World, a Crimson Fists squad is trapped behind enemy lines. Forced to survive with limited resources they start a guerrilla campaign to damage the Ork war effort and stall until reinforcements can arrive.
Legacy of Dorn represents the quintessence of a good Warhammer book. It is almost non-stop action with a few moments of respite between rounds of Ork genocide. The plot is simple but effective in building an engaging narrative and a competent backdrop for the important stuff: killing Orks in as many ways as possible.
The characters were surprisingly compelling, especially the humans. Most had simple arcs but they were cleverly executed and served their purpose. Some of the Space Marines were a bit simplistic and one dimensional in their portrayal but for the most part their arcs payed off in the end.
Rating this book was a bit difficult. This was a very sincere book, it was very clear with what it wanted to be and it achieved it with flying colors. However, this is not a very ambitious book. It's a great book for what it is and even if it doesn't quite hit the highs of the best Warhammer novels out there it deserves it's share of the spotlight.
Legacy of Dorn represents the quintessence of a good Warhammer book. It is almost non-stop action with a few moments of respite between rounds of Ork genocide. The plot is simple but effective in building an engaging narrative and a competent backdrop for the important stuff: killing Orks in as many ways as possible.
The characters were surprisingly compelling, especially the humans. Most had simple arcs but they were cleverly executed and served their purpose. Some of the Space Marines were a bit simplistic and one dimensional in their portrayal but for the most part their arcs payed off in the end.
Rating this book was a bit difficult. This was a very sincere book, it was very clear with what it wanted to be and it achieved it with flying colors. However, this is not a very ambitious book. It's a great book for what it is and even if it doesn't quite hit the highs of the best Warhammer novels out there it deserves it's share of the spotlight.
trackofwords's review
4.0
A Crimson Fists novel set during the same campaign as Rynn’s World by Steve Parker, Legacy of Dorn is, incredibly, Mike Lee’s first full-length 40k novel. During the desperate defence of New Rynn City against the vast hordes of Waaagh! Snagrod, Veteran Sergeant Sandor Galleas and his Sternguard veterans find themselves cut off from the remaining Crimson Fists forces and trapped behind the orks’ lines. Forced into a campaign of guerilla warfare alongside a battered, ill-equipped group of human soldiers, the veterans take the fight to the orks, all the while knowing they may represent the last hope for their Chapter.
The orks that Galleas and co. face off against are a powerful, threatening enemy, and without the benefit of numbers or reliable supplies the Fists and their allies are hard pressed from start to end. There’s a constant attritional grind throughout, in a wide variety of set-pieces from an early-on headlong assault to various ambushes and carefully-plotted sneak attacks, with the additional threat of a nemesis-level ork warboss occasionally rearing its head. Make no mistake, this is an action-heavy book, but it’s the strong characters and how they interact that make it work. Overall it’s pacy, characterful and brilliantly entertaining, and while it makes a great companion to Rynn’s World it very much stands as a strong, powerful story in its own right.
Read the full review at https://www.trackofwords.com/2018/10/01/legacy-of-dorn-mike-lee/
The orks that Galleas and co. face off against are a powerful, threatening enemy, and without the benefit of numbers or reliable supplies the Fists and their allies are hard pressed from start to end. There’s a constant attritional grind throughout, in a wide variety of set-pieces from an early-on headlong assault to various ambushes and carefully-plotted sneak attacks, with the additional threat of a nemesis-level ork warboss occasionally rearing its head. Make no mistake, this is an action-heavy book, but it’s the strong characters and how they interact that make it work. Overall it’s pacy, characterful and brilliantly entertaining, and while it makes a great companion to Rynn’s World it very much stands as a strong, powerful story in its own right.
Read the full review at https://www.trackofwords.com/2018/10/01/legacy-of-dorn-mike-lee/
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