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omnibus in Dan Abnett's series Gaunt's Ghosts, Since the second one he's been culling the herd, and this one suffers from the lack of interesting characters, The cast is still large, but the leftovers tend to have plotarmour apart from the odd mangled limb, but then that's what augmetics are for and the new additions aren't particularly fething interesting.


Plotwise, the storyline doesn't really seem to be going anywhere either, Abnett makes some daring choices by stranding a squad of his folk on a gakall deathtrap of a world and separating them from the rest of the ghosts, but in the next book they're all reintegrated and it's grimdark business as usual.
Not unusual perhaps, but in the end I didn't really care anymore, If you're a diehard fan of this series you'll probably disagree with me, but if you're a moderate odds are you won't really enjoy this volume.


The amount of time it took me to finish this book says it all, regardless of how many I gave it.
Though not perfect, the three novels bring the story of Gaunt and the Ghosts even further than before, At this point, with so many books preceding these, parts of each novel can become tiresome where battle description stretches and repeats ad nauseum.
But as with the past stories, the characters provide the balance to the war infused books that theK lore typically demands.
I swore after Sabbat Martyr that I would not read another book in this series, but this omnibus was inexpensive at a used bookstore and I bought it.
I actually liked the first two stories, The third story was miserable, but expected, Abnett likes to chew up his characters and this third story was no exception, The last story was the worst, I almost stopped reading the story/of the way through, because I was so tired of the way Abnett made this a complete destruction ending.
I understand realism in a story, but I like when the heroes win, not just scrape by, This series could have had a happy ending, but this omnibus destroyed that chance, The series may go on, but I am done with it, Excellent series. In this omnibus, Only In Death shines as the best in my opinion although the Dalin Criid parts in The Armour of Contempt rate as a close second.
Cant wait to get my hands on the next omnibus to continue, This Omnibus is the third one released for the Gaunt's Ghosts series, It containsindividual novels. I really liked the flow of the novels as they all follow after each other directly, Sometimes with Omnibuses you just get a collection of stories that are loosely based together but that is not the case here.
I highly recommend this book for any fans of the series, Please refer to my individual reviews of each book contained in this omnibus: Traitor General, His Last Command, The Armour of Contempt, Only in Death.
Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghost's series just keeps getting better and better as it goes along, There's very little I can say that can add to the voluminous verbiage that has already been pontificated about

these books and this here omni.
So let me just say very little and trust that you'll want to read this once you start the very first book.

Dan's amazing ability as a writer is not in his ability to throw you into truly epic gargantuan, huge, AMAZINGLY GIGANTIC battle scenes as well as individual fire fights/knife fights though these are, of course, balls to the wall awesome but rather in his ability to make you feel for his characters.
Remember Lijah Cuu hated that slimy, bastard didn't you Remember Colm Corbec Did you sniff a bit when you realized that he was gone and wouldn't be coming back Same with Bragg Or the hollow feeling you got when Brin Milo went to travel the Crusade with the Saint Dan does this amazingly well, and the losses keep mounting as the Crusade just drags on, and on, and holy fething, gaking on.
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He even has the truly amazing ability to make you give a damn about characters who aren't from the Tanith or from Verghast like those from Gereon and especially from Belladon.
Colonel Wilder, a hell of a fine officer and no greater example of a truly great Commissar save Gaunt and Hark of course is to be found than Gennady Novobazky.
. . I know I butchered that name, sorry, the book is far from me right now so I can't look it up.
The story of their last stand is, . . well, soul tearing. The speech that Novobazky gives the troops, all of whom must know that they will fall, is really awe inspiring.
I was literally irate when it dawned on me that both Wilder and Novobazky died, I truly felt their loss.
Not all writers can do this, Abnett can,
He takes the Ghost's on a hell of a ride that is, well, pure hell, And you'll be loving every minute of it, You'll lose friends in this omni, lots of them to be honest, But Abnett's genius is that you never grow numb, you never grow desensitized, every death of a character you went to battle with, joked with, loved with, cried with and marched long marches with impacts you on a deep level.
You really feel as though you lost someone close to you,
If you've not gotten into this now gigantic seriesbooks now, do so, It might be the best Black Library has going, Omnibus that includes numbersin the Gaunt's Ghosts series by Dan Abnett, All of them were amazing, Love this series. Great book, love his work, He's very detail and injects so much action into his writing that I cannot put down his books, I literally spend nights reading until I finish the book, Does an amazing job of balancing detailed descriptions as not to over exaggerate or make things dull and cheesy First books I've read by Abnett.
I have to say I really enjoyed this omnibus, and am happy there are more unread,

Good scifi / fantasy, Bloody. Great characters.

Some folks may be turned off by the Warhammer connection, I pretty much disregarded and enjoyed the ride,

Two words used inappropriately acrossbook omnibus: one was "enervated", the other I can't recall right now, The misuse irritated me more than it probably should, A fun read. I remember thinking, I love the Gaunt' s Ghosts series, it should be amazing to jump back in, And He's already killed off most of my favourite characters, what is the worst that could happen My heart could just burst while reading this that's what.
Those last few pages, my god, I felt so many emotions so damn deeply, I literally need recovery time, I loved this book. best compilation i have read in a long time, starts of strong, and finishes even stronger! its seems it took me.
years to read it all, . . and i must say this is sequel done best, it takes what was done in previous omnibuses and builds on them, and in turn every book in this omnibus does the same, but with fresh ideas, although armour of contempt is my least favourite might give it another read after some time, what it gives overall and how next one built on it.
. . is amazing! Dan Abnett please dont ever stop with Ghosts! Loved the haunted feel of this collection, Very enjoyable continuation of the Gaunt's Ghosts series, this compiles Traitor General, His Last Command, The Armour of Contempt, and Only in Death.
Abnett is perhaps the best author Black Library has, and personally I look forward to reading the last chapter in the Ghosts series, with The Victory Blood Pact, Salvation's Reach, and The Warmaster.


If you're a fan of Scifi or Warhammerk, I wholeheartedly recommend this book, I've read ittimes myself.
In continuation of the epic story of Commissar Gaunt The Lost is a series of books that sees the ghosts through some of their most trying missions yet.
Across chaos occupied worlds the regiment experiences some of the most vicious battles of its history,

Full of action and suspense, terror and gore fans of Gaunt's Ghosts will find heartbreak and grief alongside a deep appreciation of characters who have long gone.
I believe this particular omnibus has some of the best character development of the entire series so far, This is therd Gaunt's Ghosts omnibus, I already reviewed sitelinkThe Founding and sitelinkThe Saint omnibuses, If you read those reviews, you know I'm going to slapon the book and slobber all over the author.
If you're not familiar w/ Warhammerk, start w/ The Founding, Don't worry, the rest of the series will wait,


Traitor General Gaunt and comrades infiltrate the Archenemyoccupied planet of Gereon to assassinate the titular character, Local conditions are horrific as the planet and populace are bled dry to feed the Archenemy's campaign, Gaunt has to adapt to weapons and enemies he hasn't seen anywhere else, with almost no support, while Chaos space marines nip at their heels.


His Last Command Gaunt was gone for so long, he and his men were assumed dead and the mission a failure.
The idea that he and his men could return from a Chaosoccupied planet w/out any taint of Chaos is heresy, and the Inquisition is not pleased.
Gaunt is stripped of his command rank, The Tanith First and Only were disbanded, no longer Gaunt's Ghosts, and rolled into thest Belladon, On Anacreon Sextus, an ancient world w/ structures so massive they could only be monuments to the GodEmperor of Mankind, the Ghosts have to make do w/out Gaunt's leadership while the Archenemy attacks here amp there, hideous monsters stalk them at night, and entrepreneurs turn a buck wherever they can.


The Armour of Contempt How exactly did ColonelCommisar Gaunt and his people not turn traitor while on occupied Gereon Simple: they shielded their souls w/ the armor of contempt.
In other words, they didn't succumb to Chaos because they hated Chaos so very much, In the grim dark future of thest millenium, that's what passes for logic, The Ghosts finally return to Gereon in force for the planet's long overdue liberation, Dalin Criid, son of Gol Kolea, adopted by Tona Criid and Dermon Caffran, is finally old enough to enlist in the Imperial Guard.
He finishes his training just in time to have his paperwork misplaced: instead of joining the Tanith First and Only, his RIP training group retraining, indoctrination, punishment is designated a cannon fodder unit and immediately moved to the front.
At the same time, the Ghosts land at a different location to try and contact the friends and allies they left behind at the end of in Traitor General.
The Inquisition remains unhappy throughout,

Only in Death As the commissariat is fond of reminding guardsmen: only in death does duty end, How would the rest of the Ghosts fare if Gaunt himself were to die Enough people see Gaunt fall off a cliff that this ceases to being an academic question.
This is the Ghosts' haunted house story, The supernatural happenings in Honor Guard theth book had a perfectly reasonable explanation, so I should've known that things weren't really as spooky as they seemed, but the fighting is so intense that there's never any time to piece the clues together.



I'll admit I still have nightmares about the battle for Vervunhive, and I wasn't even there! None of thesebooks match the impossible pace set in Necropolis therd book and that is a blessing.
The Imperial citizens of Gereon are so scrappy, you can't help but root for them from first contact to the bitter end.
And that isn't a spoiler, you fucking clowns, Warhammerk may not be Game of Thrones, but you know damn well that we don't get happy endings in this universe.
Ezra Night is a great addition to the cast, exactly the sort of noble savage manservant every good colonial officer had the height of the British Empire.
The Belladon are colorful and great counterparts to the Tanith and the Verghast, Abnett's willingness to kill of major characters hasn't subsided in the least it's gotten worse, in fact,

Maybe thesebooks don't gel as seamlessly as in The Saint omnibus, but it's still one hell of a crazy ride.
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