Lord Samper's Library

  The weather is cooling down a bit, at least for now, but my tired (slightly overheated) old brain is taking a little while to catch up so, as you’ve probably gathered, I’m all about the short reads this week. Bits and pieces to keep me ticking over and entertained. And ‘Alien Harvest’, as well, but I already moaned about that yesterday , no more moaning about it today ;o) Anyway… I’m doing pretty well with my, kind of, resolution to read more books that I already own (it’s still a ‘work in progress’ but I’m happy with it) so it was no surprise that I decided to go for a couple of Imperial Guard short stories from the ‘Soldiers of the Imperium’ collection – a book that has gone unread for… lets just say ‘too long’. I picked one tale from an author that I’ve never read and the other tale? Well, does it count as a re-read if I listened to the audio-book years ago and could barely remember the plot when I came back to it the other day? Technically, yes, I guess ;o) Enough of that, le...

Before I get into the review proper, thank you Black Library for sending me a copy of ‘Deathworlder’ in return for a fair and honest review. Talking of ‘fair and honest’… There will be loads of the latter but I enjoyed the hell out of ‘Deathworlder’ so… We’ll see how being fair goes ;o) That’s your only warning, lets talk ‘Deathworlder’… Lazulai is a world beyond the brink, its battle against the tyranids all but lost. Once-magnificent cities lie in ruin. The seas boil. The skies crack. Horrific alien bioforms devour. In mere days the planet will be consumed. The 903rd Catachan ‘Night Shrikes’ defend one of the last fortresses still standing. Led by Major Wulf Khan, to die fighting is all that is expected of them… until she is given one last mission: to lead a squad through the apocalypse and recover a piece of archeotech that may doom or deliver the entire Lazulai System. Facing insurmountable odds and zero hope for aid, the major must hold her squad together as they pick their way ...

Page Count: 38 Pages While I’m trying to finish off longer books (‘Son of the Forest’ and ‘The God is not Willing’, both excellent reads so far), this week is very much about the shorter reads but also, short reads that I know I’ll enjoy. Life isn’t bad right now, just a lot of stuff happening and you know what that means… I don’t want to be faffing around with books that I’m not sure about, life is too short for that right now. I’m after reads that I know I’ll enjoy and having thoroughly enjoyed ‘The Carbis Incident’ and ‘Blood Sands’ ; I knew I’d enjoy ‘Nightsider Imperialis’ too. The long and short of it is that I really did enjoy ‘Nightsider Imperialis’, let me tell you about it… When the t’au bring down an Imperial Navy Lightning Strike Fighter, Major Wulf Khan must venture deep behind enemy lines to rescue the pilot before they – and the secrets they carry – fall into xenos hands. Well damn, what a read 😊 I thought waiting on the phone, while IT support tried to fix my laptop, w...