It was only a few days ago, reading burnout remedied, that I finally got around to picking up a new book. I was staring reading burnout in the face, and in order to remedy that I chose to reread some old favorites before getting back to the books in my ephemeral and constantly shifting To-Read list. For the most part, I've been happy with them, but there is always something about them that trips me up: some flaw in characterization, or some plot point, that makes me want to take a long vacation by reading something else far less likely to make me feel exhausted and exasperated by the time I get to the end of the book.

This has a lot to do with the kinds of books I've been reading.

Usually I can go through books at a fairly fast clip of a book every week or week and a half, but during this latter half of the year I've barely managed to make a book every two weeks. If you are looking for a good story about an Inquisitor check out the Eisenhorn story line instead.ĭuring the last few weeks, I've hit something of a slump in my reading. This is a well written book with a decent story but it is nowhere near Dan Abnett's best work. Additionally, there is a plot twist that was pretty good. That was the big turn off for me.Īround page 200 (hardcover edition) I started to get into the story a little bit more but not enough for me to say the book is better than o.k. I got this book to read about an inquisitor, not his support staff. The book mainly focuses on his support staff and their mission to discover who is distributing contraband narcotics in a subsector of the Imperium. My problem with him is that it is really hard to get behind a character that is basically confined to a floating casket and takes over the minds of others if something physical is required of him. Ravenor is a crippled member of the Imperial Inquisition and a powerful psycher. The main reason I found this book only ok is because of our main character Ravenor. Now before you get angry with my two star review or pass this book up, remember a two star review means I found this book only O.K.

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