Ciaphas Cain: Choose Your Enemies: Choose Your Enemies (Volume 10)

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The thing was looking at us with a gleam of malign intelligence, but its stillness was preternatural, as though a statue had somehow been imbued with will and intellect. Sling the stories together into a coherent narrative, and the jokes would wear thin, the action repetitive, and the overall story bogged down. There is a more consistent effort to balance this against the major narrative, while the time-skips needed to work around story moments are far better placed. This allows her to have a greater voice in certain events and more substantial pieces to compliment where Cain glosses over key details. Following the first trilogy, it seemed that every attempt to take a step forward resulted in at least one step back.

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With a roar like an enraged carnosaur the atmosphere began to vent, becoming visible as a plume of ice crystals, which caught the sunlight in a glittering trail I might have found breathtakingly beautiful if it hadn’t been taking my breath quite literally. Hammer and Bolter was a download-only Black Library monthly e-magazine published between October 2010 and November 2012. There are far more descriptions and humourous takes used to make it feel fresh in this regard, and equally the way in which Cain stumbles into the narrative works well.

The increasing number of fiction works by an expanding list of authors is published in several formats and media, including audio, digital and print. After putting down an uprising on a mining world, he finds evidence that the corruption might have spread to other planets, and the forge world of Ironfound could now be at risk.

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While their initial battles prove to be a string of easy victories, Cain's troops soon find that corruption might be far more widespread than they first expected. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Then there’s Inquisitor Vale’s footnotes, which dance between pointing out people’s foibles, and wondering if Cain isn’t the precise man the Imperium needs. In most prior stories, the rapid wrap-up was far better justified, either by diverting one enemy into fighting another, or intervention by another force.Despite this, Mitchell is a talented enough author to avoid most of the truly dark elements within Warhammer 40,000 and still make it extremely loyal to the overall universe. Given that, behind Eisenhorn, the Ciaphas Cain books are among the few which delve deeper into the inner workings of the Imperium's daily life, this is a very welcome addition. The avatar took up a guard position, moving lithely through a series of defensive postures, an ancient-looking pole arm encrusted with runes locked in its metal hands.

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The way the story manages to execute a better pace is by working around a lot of the flab present in past stories. Yet atop of everything else, Choose Your Enemies manages to sidestep a fair few of the pacing issues and structural problems inherent in the overall series. The vast bulk of an eldar battleship was keeping station with the orbital, just outside the [armourcrys] dome, and beyond it I thought I could make out several more of the distinctive curving hulls. Cain has fought numerous xenos, but here we see him primarily squaring off against a cult of Chaos worshippers. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform.Most of the works, which include full-length novels, novellas, short stories, graphic novels, and audio dramas, are parts of named book series. Even without the commentary angle, however, the actual fight scenes are geared far more toward spectacle or large scale events over all else. On the one hand, as mentioned above, the expanded sections help both her and the capacity to offer a greater voice within the story.