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Title: Choose Your Enemies
Series: WH40K: Ciaphas Cain #10
Authors: Sandy Mitchell
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages: 338
Words: 107K
We get introduced to the Eldar Reavers here, or Raiders, or whatever. They’re Space Pirate Elves. That’s all we really need to know. Because Cain fights them, helps them unknowingly and with their help takes down a full Chaos Demon. Meanwhile, Chaos Cultists are taking over the leadership of a Forgeworld with the usual results, hence the demon.
I enjoyed this quite a bit. It was bittersweet knowing this was the last Cain book for some time. Supposedly there is a new novel due out this year and an omnibus of short stories due at the same time, but there is no actual release date, so I’ll believe it when I see it. Choose Your Enemies was published in 2018, so even if a new Cain book comes out this year, chances are good it will be another 5 years before the next one. So this is the last Cain book in my opinion.
One thing I have liked about the Cain books is the little glimpses, usually VERY little, of various non-Empire of Humanity beings. We’ve seen chaos cultists, demons, orks, necrons, tau, tyranids and now eldar. While I would have liked to see a bit more of each, the little glimpse I had felt like enough to give me familiarity with them so I at least knew their name and what kind of creature they were.
These books are not great literature and I don’t expect that. I just want a cracking good adventure story and for the most part, Sandy Mitchell (or whatever his real name is, I simply don’t care if a stupid author uses a stupid pseudonym for some stupid reason because he’s stupid) has always written fast paced, exciting boom boom, shoot shoot, chop chop stories. Kind of like those tasty baskets of bread and butter that restaurants give you before your appetizers and entree can be cooked and served.
★★★✬☆
From Wh40k.lexicanum.com
Commissar Ciaphas Cain and the Valhallan 597th are in the thick of it again, putting down an uprising of Chaos cultists on an Imperial mining world. Though their mission is a success, they find evidence that the corruption might have spread to other planets, and that the forge world of Ironfound could now be at risk. The munitions Ironfound produces are vital to the Imperial war effort in the subsector; its safety must be assured at all costs. As battle explodes across the planet, Ciaphas Cain and his regiment come up against allies and enemies old and new in their fight for victory against the forces of Chaos.
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