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- it didn't help that almost half the book is just a retelling of the events of the previous one.
That's what really bothered me and made me wary of things to come, seeing how the series is already 25 volumes.
I expected the series to be just gory Adeptus Astartes fanfiction but the characters and schemes were by far my favorite part, up to #5 at least.
As someone who has read 16 of the HH books, my favorite books are the ones that deal with the Astartes in a very human way, and seem to try very hard with making the reader empathize with the characters. My two favorite HH books are The First Heretic, and A Thousand Sons. These two books really did a great job for me in making me really feel for the Characters in them, the battles were just icing on an already amazing cake...a heresy cake.
The one thing I will mention about the Horus Heresy books (Especially if they are the first 40k books you are reading) is that there is a lot of implied knowledge. For example they never really explain that a Space Marine, and Adeptus Astartes are the same thing. I recently recommended Horus Rising (the first book) to a co-worker who has never read 40k, and he found him self very overwhelmed with the whole Space Marine things and what that actually meant. Honestly I think the best thing to do before you start any 40k book, would be to just read a couple wiki pages, get a decent understanding of what the Adeptus Astartes are, maybe even look up what a Primarch is.
For these reasons I really think that Gaunt's Ghosts may be easier, there are a couple things that could be a little confusing for a new reader but the fact it deals with normal Humans and only really mentions Space Marines a handful of times, I think would make it a much easier read.
Read the first 3 books in the Horus Heresy Series. The Eisenhorn, and Ravenor omnibus's are both great. And I have recently just finished the first Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus which to me might be the best place to start because it deals with the Imperial Guard (aka Normal Humans) so it's a lot easier to understand than something involving Space Marines.
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