I was thinking that a thread where people could just post a score out of 10 for the latest BL novel they've read might be a good idea. It's not a review thread, we have them already, it could just serve as a quick reference guide for people looking at making their next BL purchase. To that end, I'll start.
I don't really like to apply rating systems to novels, I just can't sum up a novel with a number out of 10 or a grade. Dunno why. But just for the record..
Fear to Tread: U or 0.00000000000000000001/Googolplex. Or failing that, a complete abortion of a novel in every singular way possible, making me and my perception of humanity as a whole feel a little more dumb and unenlightened in a truly uninspiring and bland way, to the point where I would willingly shave off a decade or so of a my life, just to get that day or so back that it took me to read it, and then spend my entire monetary worth to find a way to erase the memory of the novel from my mind and set up an organisation dedicated to finding every single last copy of the novel in existence and burning it, followed by a virus to delete every eBook file. Fuck you Fear to Tread.
Not quite finished with it, but only a couple chapters left. So barring something to make it really terrible within those last few pages...
Deathwatch: 8/10
It kind of dragged a bit in the first two acts, but despite that it wasn't torture to read like the first Bastion Wars book was. The Deathwatch training bits helped salvage a lot of it. If it hadn't spent so much time setting up events for the third act, I would have easily given it an 8.5 or 9.
He was working for Eisenhorn and acting as a shadow-bodyguard for Bequin. He beat the crap out of the Emperor's Child marine Teke the Smiling One.
Redemption Corps. About a 7.1/10 or so, would have been higher if Sanders hadn't chosen to do those annoying flashfowards that screwed up the flow of the story later.
The Emperor's Gift: 9/10 would thoroughly recommend. (If nothing else, just for the bits where Bjorn re-inacts Monty Python's impression of God in Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Ahriman: Exile: 8/10 not as good as the above but still a good read. Enjoyed Ahriman's character arc.
There's only a few other books in the series I'd rate less, namely BftA and the DA books. It just didn't seem to flow very well, and I didn't like the first person angle for Vulcan. Grammaticus seemed to have been watered down considerably from Legion as well.
Not too bad. Nice to see the Flesh Tearer again. He still has the smell of wolf blood in his nose. The book covers how they came to find their new home world.
Flesh of Cretacia, 2/10.
Book about nothing, written for sleepwalkers. They found a planet - hurray.
Scorched Earth, 1/10
Exactly for the same reasons Nineswords has told you
Vulcan Lives! 5/10
Meh! Hello Heracles
Priests of Mars - Lord of Mars - 9/10 - 8/10
Awesome novels, and very unwarhammeristic in it. Joy to read - feelings like, when you first time read Eisenhorn trilogy =) So, strangely Graham McNeil could write superb stuff if he wants it. And i began to worry after Angel Exterminatus.
City of the Damned - 7/10
Delightful story, with great timespan stuff, some superb characters, and some not so well written. But the main problem of this novel - if you compare it to Road of Skulls or Zombieslayer, you will understand - that David Guymer writing style is very hard to cope with.
Scars: - 9/10
7 episodes into it - and yes - one of the best HH to date. Last episode flashback about the meeting with Morti, that's was amazing:laugh: And yes - Russ is a pussy :laugh:
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