I decided to try out books from the Warhammer 40k universe, largely because there's just so many of them it felt like - if I liked them - I was set for semi-mindless reading for life. The book I was immediately able to find at my local library was Abnett's Eisenhorn Omnibus, which kind of presages this series, and I'm very glad I started with Abnett's Inquisitor work - I'm not enormously into military sci-fi, and these are very good pulp-y, noir-y works set in more interesting parts of the Warhammer universe. Both the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies are essentially tragedies, in the Greek sense, but leaven that with good action sequences and fun world-building.
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Shadowlands by Matthew Green
Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, …
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Moderan by David R. Bunch
"Welcome to Moderan, world of the future. Here perpetual war is waged by furious masters fighting from Strongholds well stocked …
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By then Bell and Sigh had been thoroughly infected by each other's way of speaking. They had each caught the other's inflections and intonations. They slurred the same pairs of words together and identically mispronounced others. They skipped the same conjunctions, maintained the same timbre. By their seventh year, they spoke in a dialect of their own unconscious creation.
— Seven Steeples by Sara Baume (Page 132)
mark wants to read Stones of Aran by Tim Robinson
mark quoted Seven Steeples by Sara Baume
She was quicker to anger, whereas he had a cavernous, agonising capacity for regret.
— Seven Steeples by Sara Baume
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mark rated Ravenor: The Omnibus: The Omnibus (Warhammer 40,000): 4 stars
mark rated The pilgrim hawk: 5 stars
mark finished reading Ravenor: The Omnibus: The Omnibus (Warhammer 40,000) by Dan Abnett
mark wants to read The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt
The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt
Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais …