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Dawn of War, Tempest (Warhammer 40, 000) | 
 enlarge | Author: Cassern S Goto
Publisher: Black Library
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 238525
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 416
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 1844163997
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9781844163991
ASIN: 1844163997
Publication Date: September 4, 2006
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 Interesting, good then highly disapointing (a few spoilers included, dont read if u dont want to spoil story a little)! September 25, 2007
Mr. S. Lau (Uk)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I feel quite inclined to disagree with the initial reviews by others of this book, it is certainly "not" as fine as his/her other pieces.
If your a dawn of war fan, be it from reading his other works in the trilogy or like myself from the game and you only had enough pocket money to spen on one of these books, then my advice would be to spend it on either the first or the second in the series (Ascension).
About Dow Tempest:
It certainly starts of differently...the writer takes on the first person perspective with one of the key characters that this book is supposedly about...it gets rather disconcerting when and a touch overly complicated (such as the sudden involvement of new factions ands major personalities halfway towards the end of the book, leaving little room for charcater development...ultimately)
*It starts of very well :)
*towards the middle of the story/book it still is pretty captivating and exciting.
*However in the latter 1/3 of the book you get the distinct feel that the writer has maybe "burnt the midnight oil" for a day or two too much and the overal integrity of the quality of the story almost collapses in on itself - as the writer struggles to fit in "new elements" like the Harlequin and other darker rival factions n characters effectively.
Its all a kind of wham, bam...gasps for air as the story coming to an supposedly climatic end runs of of fuel before it - and much of the end is left to the reader with "far too much to be desired" e.g. CXharcater A who has been a constant for 90% story, then "gets it", friends feel "oh shock horror" move on who cares...then another character B) gets the "holy grail" and in a puff of smoke/flash ends the story without much perspective from the other sides involvedin teh conflict.
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A Brutal universe, where there are no heroes nor good sides, little trust and treachery is aplenty.
The author has throughout books 2-3 in particular sought to convey the above message, but from my perspective, dangles overly much from a Imperium of Man (the main human side) too much and lacks in book 3 most of all characater development for some of the major and supporting cast memebers who aren't human.
With the various "alien or non Imperium humans" CS goto simply dresses them up midway and certainly towards the latter sections as quite fanciful and airy fairy almost ET like, where their once glorius ability to communicate who and what they are about is totally lost and often reduced to one or two phrases and sentences.
The action scenes
The fight scenes whether in space battle form or ground conflict is highly short falling of what you expect in a good fantasy/sci fi type novel (read Forgotten realms War of the spider queen and lady Pentitent series of books to compare how the two types of work do things differently).
The is no balance of power nor perspetive...basically saying, Imperium wins all, always and the Eldar and others lose always...
It wouldn't be so hard to digest if the Imperium or Blood Ravens marines were actually "heroes"...but they arent.
The basic concluding description one can say for them are: Brutal, war hungry, bloodthirsty, treacherous but also loyal), facist Xenophobes, scholarly yet also ignorant..very much like the medieval crusaders and Inquisition.witch hunting type of people were like (kill and torture all who are different to them, totally inhuman by our modern humanitarian standards.)
Still the main human Hero: one Caot Gabriel Angelos is thoroughly well described for the most part as the wroter seems to try n portray his attempt at rediscovering elements of lost humanity and basdically what it means to be a good person (showing honor and loyalty, compassion and mercy to those who've helped you, saved you etc he is almost entirely alone in this).
Concluesion:
If youve read the first two in the trilogy, then its certainly worth reading...however I must point out that you should also be expected to be disappointed at least in part from this 3rd novel.
The nonhuman (imperium, space marines) sides and perspectives are too often, far too briefly and matter of factly, left to the readers imagination with scant details of what they are feeling/going through themselves- its basically 98% just focused on Space marines kicking ass under any circumstance.
As original n cheesy as it sounds, people "need" heroes, charcters who break from tradition against the rules n ways of their fellows n even friends sometimes to follow the path of good...there isn't so much of this at all except maybe here n there from the main character: Capt Gabriel Angelos (when his fellows are all too keen on treachery n xenophobic genocide)
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The greatest criticism I reserve for thsi book is this: after investing so much time and effoirt into building up n describing some of the main charcters from human n alien factions, the writer becomes almost too keen towards the end of "one sentence mopping up" with not a word or paragraph describing what happens next to leave the reader on any sort of knife-egde like any gdod episode of a sci fi or fantasy show.
A disappointing 3rd book compared to the rest, very much like the writers/publishers simply decided that the story was too log and found a random space at the end of a paragraph to finsih the book with leaving nothing for the reader to hang onto or wonder about, aliens just vanish, battles are "blink blink" won, all is well voila!.
Hope this helps you shpae you final decision about whether to but this book, if I had a choice I wouldve rented it from a library rather than buy it.
Long time Reader of Fantasy and Sci fi, from the UK.
 Another storming piece of sci-fi from Goto December 1, 2006
Kill Bill (NYC)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
Like all of Goto's work this is intelligent and well-crafted fiction. The characters are fully realised and well-developed, and the plot line is fresh and interesting. He is (yet again) pushing the boundaries of BL fiction, this time by employing a first-person narrative. I think this is the first time that this has been done for a Space Marine.
Yet again Goto proves that he is the author of choice for the intelligent BL reader. This is not just the linear, tedius, blood and gore of some BL products, but this is a real novel. If you just want mindless violence, this might not be for you, but if you want a properly crafted novel that transforms the Blood Ravens into the most interesting of the Space Marine Chapters, this is definitely for you!
There are one or two (very vocal) conservatives that can't cope with change, but Goto is by far the most exciting writer in the BL stable and the vast majority of BL readers love his work, which is why he has so rapidly become one of their best-selling writers.
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