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Barbarius@outside.ofa.dog

Joined 1 year, 6 months ago

Mostly reading sci-fi, fantasy, and comics/graphic novels, but occasionally some other stuff too.

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12% complete! Barbarius has read 5 of 40 books.

Horus Rising (The Horus Heresy) (2014, The Black Library) 3 stars

A Horus Heresy Novel - Book 1

After thousands of years of expansion and conquest, …

The beginning? Of what, I'm not sure...

3 stars

I know this is nothing revelatory to say of the first book in a 50-something volume series, but it felt like it was just the start of a bigger story, without a lot of resolution. Which is fine, and I guess I expected.

Having NO prior knowledge of the Warhammer 40k universe, I felt like a lot was going over my head. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I didn't like the story, I just felt that a lot of it was referencing things the significance of which I wasn't aware of.

I've read that the first 3-5 stories should be read together as one arc. They're cheap and short enough that I will probably get the second one at some point soon.

Fables (Paperback, 2021, DC Comics) 5 stars

Fables Compendium Two starts with the story “Arabian Nights (and Days)”, when foreigners start showing …

Okay, that was excellent (as usual) but now I'm so unsure as to what's going to happen! What I thought was going to be the end/final climax of the entire series happened about two-thirds of the way through this compendium... And there's still two more to go! Where are we going with this!? So much unknown! So exciting!