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Title: His Last Command
Series: WH40K: Gaunt's Ghosts #9
Author: Dan Abnett
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages: 361
Words: 98K
Series: WH40K: Gaunt's Ghosts #9
Author: Dan Abnett
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages: 361
Words: 98K
Synopsis:
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Gaunt
and most of his crew make it off Gereon after 16months of fighting a
guerilla war. Suspected of Chaos Taint, the entire team is slated for
execution without hearing one word of whether Gaunt's mission was a
success or not. One lone Commissar believes Gaunt and gets him an
audience the man leading his sector, the man who sent Gaunt to Gereon
in the first place. Due to their actions and continued suspicion of
Taint, Gaunt is stripped of his field command becomes just a
Commissar again. The other Tanith's are folded back into the regiment
that the rest of the Tanith have been integrated with.
The
current battle is to take some sacred domes that appear to be made in
the Emperor's honor from the 31st millennium. Gaunt proves
that the whole setup is a Chaos trap to end the Sabbat Worlds war. A
last minute evacuation allows the space forces of man to wipe the
planet clean. Gaunt is proved correct and the suspicion of Chaos, by
the Inquisitors anyway, is removed. Whether Gaunt is given back his
Colonel'cy remains to be seen.
My
Thoughts:
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Well, Abnett just ignores how Gaunt and his get off Gereon. Ok, he
gives it some lip service and a mention of their guerilla warfare but
really, it is just glossed over like a cutscene from an old video
game. I do have to admit that Gaunt came across as rather dumb in the
beginning. He acts like he's never dealt with chaos taint or what
things look like from an outsiders view. And honestly, given how
severely the Empire deals with taint, he should just be thankful
they did make it out alive.
Other than that, I had no complaints about this. The Tanith and
Vergestites are folded into yet another undermanned company and make
up a full company. The leader of said company is loved by all and
gets killed, so you know that in another book, two at most, Gaunt is
going to take over and make them all Ghosts. If the Ghosts were
chocolate pudding in the first book, by this time they've had so much
vanilla pudding added that they are neither chocolate or vanilla. But
they aren't tapioca, so that is all that matters!
Lots of action and fighting, so absolutely no issues on that front.
Thankfully, that side of these books is staying pretty consistent.
Ps, I am going to start hosting only the bigger pix on google drive.
22K covers are not going to be an issue. That way I don't have to
change the way I write my reviews, which is the worst of sins in my
book (hence why I am so against the block editor).
★★★☆½
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