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Soul Drinker

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This book is about the "Soul Drinkers" Space marine chapter. The story starts off w/ the Soul Drinkers assualting a space station run by rich & corrupt family; the Van Skorvolds. The reason for this assualt?? To recover a ancient artifact that had been stolen from the Soul Drinkers hundreds of years prior. But, the Imperium and Adeptus Mechanicus have other plans for the space station and the Soul Drinkers missing artifact, the Soul Spear. This throws the Soul Drinkers into a conflict with all they have ever known and with the Imperium, to which they have dedicted their lives to defending.

This tale stretches from the battles on the Van Skorvolds space station to a Chaos rife world under the power of Nurgle; the God of Death and Decay. Don't over look this book. If you like the universe created by the folks at Games workshop and produced by their publishing company, The Black Library. You'll love this book!! There is also a second part to this book on the way, called "The Bleeding Chalice".

Interested in space marines? Familiar with the 40K Universe? If so, this is a remarkable book. The book makes heavy use of the language and concepts described in other novels and the game books themselves, making this a poor choice for new players.

INCREDIBLE story! Lots of twists and turns, very well imagined, constant action, interesting characters. You can tell from the writing that the author has a great passion for this story, and really enjoyed writing it.

If you're interested in Warhammer 40,000 and the Black Library, the Soul Drinker series is definitely the one you must read! William King is great and Dan Abnett is also incredible, but Ben Counter rocks. I've read the complete Soul Drinker series (Three books so far)and his Grey Knights novel, which is also state of the art. The storyline of the Soul Drinkers is something completely new in the Warhammer 40k world. In the other series you learn about the adventures of superhuman Space Marines warriors, totally committed to the Human Empire and the Golden Throne.
The Soul Drinkers are different, as they, after being betrayed by those they once served and protected, search for a better way to serve their Emperor, without obeying to a Human Empire which is completely corrupted in their minds. Not to tell too much, get the first book and drown in this marvellous story of Space Marines Chapter which is declared heretic by the Empire and hunted down all over the galaxy.

this book has a different view from the very beginning. no book has done what this book does. ben counter is a very talented writer and the twists and turns never end. all i can say is that if you are a fan of the warhammer galaxy then this book is a must. if you are new it is still a great book. so good i read it twice in 1 day.

The is pretty much amongst the best of the "Warhammer 40K": escapist military SF genre.

But.

The next book or two in the series do pretty well, but Ben Counter is unable to maintain this level. If you like the warhammer 40K universe, or guilty-pleasure escapist military SF in general, read this book, but be warned, as the series progresses the quality goes down.

This is the first book in the popular 4-volume (so far) Soul Drinkers saga. Here we meet Librarian Sarpedon and the rest of the Soul Drinker space marines, all of whom develop into larger-than-life and very colorful characters. Ben Counter wanted to do something different with his first WH40K novel, and he succeeded here, creating a chapter of space marines than completely breaks the mould of what we've come to expect. This book tells the story of how the Soul Drinkers come to be neither Imperial loyalists nor beholden to the forces of chaos. In a universe where the lines are almost always clearly drawn between the Imperium of Man and the Forces of Chaos, the Soul Drinkers are something unique, fighting (and dying) for what they believe in, but not backing down from showing the Imperium to be what it has become.

Like most WH40K books, this one has tons of brutal and bloody action, and is filled with all manner of strange and familiar beings from the Black Library's well-developed universe. Counter's view of that universe is slightly different than the ones I prefer, more along the lines of Graham McNeil's than Dan Abnett's, with a lot of magic and demons, and relatively little mundane technology, but it generally fits in well with the rest of the WH40K fluff. I can say that the subject of this book is by no means an inconsequential side-story (like many of the WH40K books I've read), but greatly influences the WH40K universe as a whole. Recommended for fans of the Black Library.

I love how the book goes, while the ending is interesting it was not how i hoped originally, but now i want to read the other books to find out exactly what happens. Pretty Shocking i thought, what they went through in detail. One not to be missed.