I am your average 37-year-old woman. I game, I read, and I have cats. A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon Azariah Kyras’ glorious speech about the Blood God Khorne, and I started quoting him at least once every day when my boyfriend and I were talking about random everyday things. He suggested I look into the Warhammer Universe.
My God!
It started out with some lore videos about the Chaos Gods and The Emperor, and down the rabbit hole I went. When I found out they are doing a series with Mr. Handsome Henry, I knew I had to go deeper. It’s been three days of almost no sleep, and I’ve finished the first two books in The Horus Heresy saga. They have no business being as good as they are.
If Warhammer has the power to infect even the most basic, whitest woman of all time, we are all in trouble!"
Pray for me
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD !!! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!
Welcome to the club!
40k is what got me back into reading after a decade and a half of reading nothing. If you’re looking for recomendations of books outside the horus heresy, the nightlords trilogy and the Ciaphas Cain books are all excellent!
YES! NERDS UNITE!
I’ve sworn off most things GW for being an evil scummy company, but some of the books are absolute bangers. Gaunts Ghosts, Ravenor, Eisenhorn, and the Night Lords books are up there.
My favourite Horus Heresy books are probably the ones to do with the Dark Angels. They have a medievalist/futurist feel which I really love. If you love these particular ones too I suggest checking out an unrelated book called A Canticle for Liebowitz, one of my favourite of all time.
Also, ditch those Chaos Gods. They are only using you. The God-Emperor is the only way.
Just do the morally correct thing and steal the books.
Im afraid it already too late for me, the chaos is too tempting 😅
Dan Abnett is a fantastic writer. Check out the Gaunt’s Ghosts series if you like his writing - the Horus Heresy books are by a bunch of different authors, but he writes all of the Gaunt’s Ghosts books.
He also was the writer who rebooted The Guardians of the Galaxy comics in 2008.
I used to play back when i sort of had money like a decade ago. I played Tyranids. The great hunger will one day consume all the space boys.
I ignored the books because i thought it was silly to read a novelisation of a battle of the game i played with my tiny plastic dolls. Boy was i wrong!
I started the Heresy series a couple months ago. I’m on book 5 now and have also dipped into Gaunts Ghosts. They’re freaking fantastic and well written. They have AWESOME battle scenes as well as compelling narratives.
Also of course the space fascism satire of it all. I love that the Astartes, these giant macho men practically fall to their knees weeping at the sight of their primarchs. Or Himself forbid they witness the Emperor Lol. And I can’t help but think of their hierarchy as the Invader Zim Aliens’. Where they pick the tallest to lead regardless of anything else.
Its smutt, for him! 😅 🥰
I’ve always been very tempted to read these. I think you just convinced me to give it a go after I finish my current book!
Do you recommend starting anywhere in particular? Reading the series straight through? Preparation via the videos you mentioned?
I started with Horus Rising by Dan Abnett. And I find Luetin09 on youtube to be a great source of info and lore! 😄
Thanks!!
To add onto this, if you have zero knowledge of 40k, the Ciaphas Cain books are a great place to start. They aren’t about the Horus Heresy, they’re about a commisar named Cain, but they do a great job of explaining the universe based on how they’re written. Also they’re quite funny.
