A review by ratgrrrl
I Am Slaughter by Dan Abnett

5.0

Great Start to the Waaaaghus Heresy

I had some trepidation picking this up and don't think I would have if I hadn't grabbed it in a sale and was finally going through my backlog, but this was a genuinely great start to an event series and I actually want to check the rest out now.

While it's impossible to replicate the Dark King and the Lightning Tower in a bottle of the Horus Heresy with it's history, characters, mythology, and the rest, this has great writing with a mix of perspectives, locations, and action with the absolute shambles of the aristocratic fascist Council of Terra and it's many unfriendly appendages.

I can only hope the rest of the series is as good.

I'm a total Toby Longworth fangirl, but I always forget how great Gareth Armstrong is and this is fantastic performance.