Excellent book for any Warhammer 40 K fan Storm of Iron is a wonderful, heart pounding fast paced action pack book.The point of view of the Chaos Marines are shown in this book, and unlike mindless butchers, they have goals, and some sort of ideals. The Iron Warriors are described in detail and it stays true to the fluff that they are first and foremost siege troops. On the imperial side tales of brave heroics echo threw the book as the imperials fight from one desperatatley hopless situaton to another. The charachters come out wonderfully and the writing is fluid. overall an excellent book to anyone's collection
My First Warhammer book ever, and Favorite This was the first Warhammer book that I have read. Since then I have read about 75 and collected about 50, to include the Ultramarines Omnibus that this is loosely tied into. I have all of the Horus Heresy to date (Sep 07) and all of the Commissar Cain to date. I have to say that this is my favorite! I have re-read it about 4 times since I got into it 18 months ago. I highly recommend this book! You can read the other reviews about the plot and details if you like, I am not going to go into it here. I really felt that this was well written and I love the character detail that he went into on both sides. It has you rooting for both sides, I felt connected to Honsou and the Imperial Guard at the same time. The whole book keeps you in suspense because he goes into so much detail on each side, that you don't know until the end which side will win. This is a book that belongs in everyone's library!the BEST 40k read available Yep, ignore the other reviewers who give these 40k books 4 or 5 stars, THIS IS the best 40k book and no mistake. I've been into 40k for years, most of these books are badly written and of poor quality - not doing the fiction justice - but this one is different.
The only two books worth a look are:
1. Storm of Iron...........and
2. Greyknights!
The rest are really poor in comparision, that includes the Horus trilogy by the way! so if your new to this genre these 2 are the best place to start.A great, well-written story - I didn't want to put it down ! First, Storm of Iron is very well written. It is consistent has great storyline and very few flaws, if just one that I recall.
Like other reviewers said lots of violence and conflict, I add great character development and interactions with a plausible ending. Graham, you did a terrific job! Keep it up!Good but bloody Good story, describes warhammer at its best.
Though, a bit too much details, blood and gore at some times. Could have done with less...
