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A review by asukaya
The Martyr's Tomb by Marc Collins
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Well, this was a whole lot and it still felt like nothing really happened, which left me fighting through the last 2 hours of the audiobook, even though it was supposed to be the climax of the story.
The story is decent but suffers from trying to put too much plot into it. Which in turn leads to underdeveloped characters and half-finished, abandoned, or forgotten plot points. Leaving the story as just "Bolterporn".
The story is basically made of two arcs, the defense of the shrine world Velua against the Death Guard by the Adepta Sororita and the quest to find a new passage through the Citrix Maledictum to Imperium Nihilus. Both are connected through the Black Templars with their Champion Gaheris.
I think this story would have worked a lot better if these two arcs were separated into individual stories. Putting them together left not enough room to follow through all the characters' POVs and emotional impacts were less effective. Since a lot of the characters and their relationships had some potential to be explored.
All in all, right now this book doesn't add anything significant to the lore of the Indomitus Crusade and can therefore be skipped if desired.
The story is decent but suffers from trying to put too much plot into it. Which in turn leads to underdeveloped characters and half-finished, abandoned, or forgotten plot points. Leaving the story as just "Bolterporn".
The story is basically made of two arcs, the defense of the shrine world Velua against the Death Guard by the Adepta Sororita and the quest to find a new passage through the Citrix Maledictum to Imperium Nihilus. Both are connected through the Black Templars with their Champion Gaheris.
I think this story would have worked a lot better if these two arcs were separated into individual stories. Putting them together left not enough room to follow through all the characters' POVs and emotional impacts were less effective. Since a lot of the characters and their relationships had some potential to be explored.
All in all, right now this book doesn't add anything significant to the lore of the Indomitus Crusade and can therefore be skipped if desired.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and War
Moderate: Gore and Torture