Grey Knights

Interesting tale, usual heresy and treachery. Will continue to read books by this author as well as follow the Grey Knights.

This book is awesome. Good Points and Bad Points- Pros- Lots of action Lots of Grey Knights smiting daemons with riteous fury and vengeance Better than average plot The bad guys get just what they deserve Ending was awesome, if a bit Dues ex machina Cons- A little TOO much Smiting Hero is sometimes overshadowed by other characters- i.e. Tancred

"Grey Knights" starts with a bang and keeps the action coming. The story concerns the elite daemon-slayers of the Imperium, the Grey Knights Space Marine Chapter, and their race against time to stop the reincarnation of one of the most powerful daemon princes ever seen. The story is fairly straightforward, but takes a few twists and turns I didn't see coming. Justicar Alaric of the Grey Knights is an interesting character, and hopefully we'll see more of him in the future (a la Ragnar from the "Space Wolf" series). The fight scenes are tense and bloody, and Counter pulls no punches when it comes to character death and dismemberment. Make no mistake, every Imperial character in this story is put through the wringer and then some. If I have a criticism, it is that several of the supporting characters (mostly the Grey Knights themselves) are not given much character development until they're being eulogized by the author. I'd rather get to know and like the character BEFORE they meet their gruesome fate. Apart from that, "Grey Knights" is a great example of WH40K storytelling, and left me wanting more. What more can you ask for than that?

First let me say that the story is excellent. Very entertaining and very gripping. The plot twists are dynamic and not quite so obvious and predictabe. The character development was exceptional for a Warhammer 40K novel. Most Warhammer 40k characters are about as 2 dimensional as possible without falling off the page, but these characters actually had something to them. The depth of the plot, for a Warhammer novel, was also excellent. It is obvious that Mr. Counter put alot of effort into going beyond the typical hack and it paid off wonderfully. The story had the proper "feel" of the Warhammer 40K universe as well. Some authors do not capture that. Mr. Counter pulled it all together in an excellent novel that I highly recommend.

If you ever played the game Warhammer 40,000 or read any of the books based on the game then this book is an excellent read. This book just isn't about your run of the mil Space Marines, its about the Grey Knights. These guys are the elites of the elite. Psycho doctrinated from youth to be the unwaivering servants of the Imperium, to right the most grevious of wrongs, to kill the most foul things that ever existed... Deamons. To anyone who knows the game, Deamons were the meanest thing to exist untill these guys came along. Written like his previous books (Soul Drinkers and its sequel Bleeding Chalice) this has all that any Warhammer 40K fan will want. Action, adventure, mystery, gory details, and the triumph of good over evil no matter the costs. It begins with a epic battle and ends with an epic battle. It gives you the run down on the Ordo Malleus and what their job is in the grand scale of the Imperium. It keeps you on your toes with a few twists and turns that while are almost expected are suprising at the same time. All in all a very good book. I had a hard time putting it down.

Any fan of the Warhammer 40k universe should already be familiar with the Grey Knights. And to most of us, they are one of the most interesting yet mysterious Space Marine Chapters in the Imperium. With this in mind, one's expectations would be pretty high when beginning this novel, but once again, Ben Counter delivers a solid and impressive story. Well, for those of you benighted souls who don't recognize the Grey Knights Space Marine Chapter, the Grey Knights are the Chamber Militant of the Inquisition's Ordo Malleus. Translation: They kill daemons for a living! Yes, that's right. Grey Knights are Marines specially trained and outfitted for the sole purpose of killing anything that comes out of the warp. So, of course, any novel about the Grey Knights should have, say, inquisitors? Check. Daemons? Check. Intrigue? Check. Psykers? Check. Ferocious, bloody, detailed, all-out warfare? Check. Yes, that's right, this novel has it all. Ben Counter provides, in my opinion, his best work yet, giving Warhammer 40k fans almost everything they could ask for in one nice, long (400 pages!) novel. Now you might have noticed that I really haven't gone into the details of the plot, but really, think about it. What do you think a novel about the Grey Knights should have? Make a wish list. Then keep it with you while you read this novel, because you're gonna get everything you asked for.