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Ravenor Rogue (Warhammer 40, 000) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Abnett
Publisher: Black Library
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 6387
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 416
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Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 1844164616
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781844164615
ASIN: 1844164616
Publication Date: January 7, 2008
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Not great March 2, 2008
Jomi (UK)
Really rather poor in comparison to the previous two Ravenor adventures, and quite wretched when compared to Eisenhorn. I can't reccomend this book at all, it's as if Abnett didn't really want to write this book but was obliged to nonetheless (as with almost all of his Gaunt's Ghosts books after the first few). 3/5, very average to say the least.
 Not Dan's best September 19, 2007
Gareth Wilson
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The arrival of a Dan Abnett book is always a cause of celebration as its usually a guarantee of quality. This highly anticipated part of the Ravenor series had a cracking bookflap, and to top it all off, a great concept to go with it.
Alas even authors like Dan have off days and for some reason I really couldn't get into this novel as the characters seem to have seriously changed since my reading of the previous novel in the series. Throw into that mix that it seemed rather disjointed plotwise and also a tad rushed and you have the reasoning why it really was a great disappointment for me. Due to Dan's prolific writing nature, I'm damn sure that he got right back on the horse (or should that be Leman Russ) and carried on with another project. As I've said not one of Dan's best but still a notch above a number of other authors.
 Ravenors' third outing August 16, 2007
T. R. Alexander (Huntingdon, Cambs, UK)
This third book in the Ravenor series continues on from the last book, Ravenor Returned, with the powerful but crippled Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor and his team hunting for the dangerously intelligent Zygmunt Molotch. Complicating things are Inquisitorial agents sent to rein in Ravenor and his team members keeping dangerous secrets. I do find Dan Abnett (author of the Gaunt's Ghost series and the Eisenhorn trilogy) somewhat hit and miss with his books and this novel is a prime example. Much of the book is toughly entertaining and engrossing but there are bits that don't seem to gel as well as they should and some rather anticlimactic moments that stop this being as good as it could be. Overall this is a satisfactory end to the Ravenor trilogy and fans of Abnetts writing will greatly enjoy it.
From the sublime to the ridiculous August 14, 2007
D. Neill (Worcestershire, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ravenor Rogue is a good book, dont get me wrong. Zygmut Molotch turns out to be one of the most stylish bad guys I've ever come across in fiction; its not every evil mastermind that can think up 3-4 ways to bring 50 planets to their knees from what amounts to a quiet town tea room! Likewise its nice to see a scaled down active cast that all get their hands dirty.
Sadly, Molotch is underused, and slightly more emphasis put on the good-but-not-as-good Orfeo Culzean in these instances than perhaps should be the case. Having built up the deviousness and power of the disciples of the Cognitae school, seeing its best (Molotch) getting tied down by a smart but not Cognitae human doesnt quite ring true. In a similar vein, Frauka and Zael are completely underused; especially confusing as to Zael having been built up so much in the first half of the series, only to almost literally fall off the face of the galaxy for the last half. It actually renders the whole point of having his character in the series as a whole pointless.
The writing itself is also a bit disjointed; certainly for one particular section I had no real clue what was going on, I just kept reading in the knowledge it would, eventually, make sense (which it did, but a bit too late for my tastes). It also doesnt help that Abnett has a slightly irritating tendency to rob his work of some tension with his constant references to how certain things will pan out in the future; for example, the whole Thonius part of the plot has been essentially robbed of its power since a short story that predates this novel series! Though in fairness, I dont see how Abnett would have maintained as much tension in this instance after the mid-point of the second book.
And then we have the latter part of the book. As the title of this comment suggests, its at this point the series slides from being sublime genius to the realms of the reasonably ridiculous. Sorry, but I just dont buy galaxy-spannning disasters/superweapons/whatevers, not just because of their implausibility (the Star Wars books are choked wretched with this type of storyline), but because they inevitably require some form of Deus Ex Machina that just breaks the reasonable level of suspension of disbelief. Sadly, even Abnett is apparently not above these tried and rusted tools of plot 'advancement'. However, I do seem to be in a minority opinion of preferring understated storylines (as in the 1st book in the series) as opposed to hugely overambitious galaxy-killing problems, so maybe youll derive more satisfaction from the direction of the last book than I did.
So to ultimately summarise this book, id quote from the last words of the novel itself:
"Closure is overrated, but its still closure"
Its worth buying to finish the series, and the first 2 books are _definitely_ worth buying, but dont be dissapointed when the final acts dont deliver.
Builds you up to let you down. April 9, 2007
N. L. Hooley
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This trilogy got off to an unsure start, with Ravenor being enjoyable but rather naff nonetheless. Ravenor Returns saw Dan Abnett back on his usual good form, and at first it looks like Ravenor Rogue will be even better.
Which, for the most part, it really is. Three quarters or so of the book is very good. Zygmunt Molotch, who in his few past appearence in the trilogy has just looked like an Average Joe everyone makes out to be evil incarnate is at last looking like the brilliant, evil mastermind he should always have been. Ravenor himself isn't simply sitting around at the base making snide telepathic comments until the big scenes but is instead out in the thick of it in person from the start.
The last part of the book though fails completely when it reaches what should have been its climax. It's clearly rushed, and as for the ending itself...in a short story it would be unsatisfying. In a stand-alone novel it would be anti-climatic. As the ending of a trilogy which has its roots in the excellent Eisenhorn books, it's too pathetic for words.
So if you enjoyed Ravenor Returned by all means buy this book, you'll enjoy most of it even more. But if you would only be reading this out of desire to find out how it ends, don't bother and take my word for it that the answer to that is: Very disappointingly.
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