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# Deliverance Lost: The Horus Heresy, Book 18

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Nothing to worry about
  

*by B***X on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2022*

Deliverance Lost, Book 18. Primary focus, the Raven Guard.First the bad. This is yet another tale where the components were invented to fill a book rather than connect important parts of the larger tale. A primary focus of the book is a technology that would let Astartes be replenished quickly, but as you can guess that advantage does not continue to be used beyond the book, nor does anything decisive happen with the recurring characters.But don't worry about that. This is an entertaining story. It makes the Ravenguard the sight-for-sore-eyes underdogs that are easy to root for. I kinda wish the Ravenguard were as interesting as say, the Blood angels though. Maybe they can give them feathered armpits or beaks on their feet.The conflict with the Traitor legions is decent and they kept the story going with decent characters and a wide variety of subjects and scenes. It was nice seeing so much about Corax and some lesser imperial groups were shown like Imperial Guard and Mechanicus, though those could have used more depth.Overall a simple but enjoyable Space Marine oriented book and it bodes well for the author's future works.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great background information average story. Spoiler
  

*by H***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 10, 2012*

People who are upset with this story I think are missing the point.  On the surface this book appears to be about the Ravenguard but it is much more than that. This story finally explains the Primarch Project and the hows and why of space Marine creation if that was not enough it reveals the future of space marines too. It also explain how Alpha Legion can infiltrate other legions.  With these pieces of information we can see an entire future of 40k. It would be easy for GW to reveal now that the majority of space marine chapters in existence are actually Alpha Legion.  Over the course of 10,000 years the Alpha Legion has had the time to fully understand and replicate the Primarch Project.  Screw pace Marines they might had an army of Primarchs cloned out there. This story sets the stage for the reemergence of any primarch and any legion. This story leaves me with only one question. After the Alpha Legions fails in it plan to bring a quick death to humanity would they return to being a "loyal" legion and support the Emperor's plan? As far as we know the Alpha Legion did not go into the Eye of Terror so they have experienced the full 10,000 years all the time having the source DNA to clone 20 primarchs and the ability to grow superior space marines in 72 hours, there is even an indication that they can clone space marines without the need to implant a human first.  Obviously the downfall of the Emperor is no longer their goal or there would be 100 million space marines led by 10,000 Alpharious and Omegons marching on Terra. In the same vain they can appear to defend Terra too with a legion of Primarchs ready to run the Imperium.  This novel tells more about the past and future of 40k than any other in the series with the possible exception of The Outcast Dead which revealed that the Emperor cannot win against Chaos.  That Arik Taranis succeeds in creating a new geneseed blending Thunder Warriors with Astartes and that a single Thunder Warrior can easily beat an Astartes.Years form now we will look back as these 2two novels as where we first learned the fate of the 40k universe.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Different than you might expect
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 13, 2012*

I stand ready to accept a demon's legion of negative comments from the die hard BL fans, but better to be honest in the review and let the buyer make the purchase "with his or her eyes open."I enjoyed Gav Thorpe's writing style, but this book was just OK.I would not add Deliverance Lost to the top of my reading list even for the die hard BL fan base.The Black Library (BL) has done a great job of putting together a truly fantastic collection of books set in the Warhammer universe, both the Fantasy side and the Warhammer 40K side.Gav Thorpe, the author, spins a good yarn, and his portrayal of Corax, primarch of the Raven Guard, is well done.All that said, while I enjoyed the first several Horus Heresy (HH) books very much, I am not a big fan of Deliverance Lost.Be warned ... spoilers follow.The story picks up immediately after the slaughter of the loyal legions at Isstvan V with significant flashbacks to Corax's childhood and growth into the messiah of Deliverance.  (The title of the book has a double meaning, both the loss of the Raven Guard's homeworld and the loss at a chance to deliver the galaxy from Horus civil war.)The premise of the book is that Corax is the guerrilla fighter of the Primarchs.  He and the Raven Guard rely on stealth and hit & run tactics to depose the enemies of the Emperor.After the defeat on Isstvan V, Corax and a small number of his legion retreat to refit and determine future plans.  Corax takes one ship back to Earth to meet with the Emperor and determine some way to rebuild his legion.The fly in the ointment is that the Alpha Legion has sided with Horus (see 
  
Horus Heresy: Legion (Warhammer 40,000 Novels: Horus Heresy)







  
  
    ), and the Alpha Legion has embedded agents within the Raven Guard.The reader follows one of these traitorous scum along through the story.Corax returns to Earth, and he is not permitted to disturb the Emperor.  Eventually after a tussle between Rogal Dorn, Corax, and Malcador the Sigilite, the Emperor "possesses" Malcador and gives Corax information on where the Primarch Project remains have been buried beneath a mountain, protected by a killer maze.Corax uses his incredible wits to defeat a maze designed by the Emperor to kill any that entered it.At the core of the maze is the biotechnology used to create the Primarchs.  The traitor scum is one of the Raven Guards that accompanies Corax.After returning to Deliverance, Corax and a very clever supporting cast of characters, including some members of the Mechanicum, are able to figure out a way to recreate the Raven Guard in a fraction of the normal time.All goes well until the Alpha Legion is able to insert "demonic DNA essence" into the pure gene sample that then converts the Raven Guard initiates into hideously warped monsters.The twin Primarchs of the Alpha Legion fool Horus, have the corrupt DNA, and Corax continues with hit & run tactics that the reader assumes continues for centuries (all to no real effect apparently).So, why three stars?First, the book is depressing.  OK, OK, to stay within BL canon, the Raven Guard had to fail, but there were many places in the book where the Bad Guys(tm) could have failed, but miraculously at every turn, evil triumphed over good.  Also, Mr. Thorpe set you up to believe that the traitor scum was facing a moral dilemma and was likely to do the "right thing" in the end.  Yeah, didn't happen.  Didn't really even hesitate.I like H.P. Lovecraft too, and that is a bleak universe as well -- likely the intellectual origins of the BL Chaos, but subsequent writers added some rays of hope to HPL's creation.There were a number of times when it was difficult to suspend disbelief, and canon was discarded in some cases.The depiction of the Twin Primarchs of the Alpha Legion was often silly.  Mr. Alpha himself is mocking Horus' closest companions, and Horus, shown to be fully of Khorn-ian rage in previous books, just sits on his throne smirking.  What?  Really?  No.  Also, Horus ends up being fooled by Mr. Alpha with a worthless data-slate with embedded errors.  Horus, who is using Chaos magic like a fiend at this point, summoning demons, etc. cannot read the Alpha Primarch?  Um, no.The Alpha Legion had sided with Horus, because a council of aliens had convinced the Primarchs that only through Horus being victorious would the galaxy be saved from the "Ruinous Powers."  Yet, throughout this book, the Twin Primarchs bedevil and ignore the representative of the council, and at the end, one of the Primarchs throws the representative out into deep space.  What?  Really?  No.  If the Primarchs were so convinced that they were doing the right thing that they believed the council and turned against their oaths to the Emperor then surely they would have valued the input from the representative.It just seemed like a ridiculous and coquettish action.The gateway to the Eldar immaterium paths on Earth was still open in this books, but we know that according to time line already established in 
  
A Thousand Sons (The Horus Heresy)







  
  
     that Magnus had already destroyed the portal (with the help of a Great Old One - not called that in the book, but that is what it was) by this time.The ability of the chaos infested Mechanicum, the Dragons, to cause a complete civil war under the nose of the Raven Guard also seems a stretch.  Surely the local population would support the Raven Guard.  Think about a local football team.  People support those teams under almost any circumstance.  Now, add that the Raven Guard is filled with super humans, and, then add all the technology and riches that came with being part of the Imperium ... there is no way that the local populace would have risen up in revolt.  Yes, the guildmasters might have, but the local populace ... er, no.There are more, but one final example suffices ... the Emperor, the Master of Mankind, the cleverest of the clever took centuries to figure out the genetic structure for the Primarch project; yet, the Alpha Legion with the help of the Dragon/fallen Mechanicum figures out how to counter the genetic structure in an untraceable way in what ... um, ten minutes or so ... while that is an exaggeration, it is beyond the pale that Alpharius and gang could have figured it out so quickly.At this point, I would love to see the BL pick up on the rebirth of the Emperor in 42K.  The recent book 
  
Atlas Infernal (Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor Czevak)







  
  
     hinted about a way that it might be possible, and there has been speculation within the BL fan base and authors for years about a combined Eldar and Human mythology that included the rebirth of the Emperor.I enjoyed Gav Thorpe's writing style, but this book was just OK.I would not add Deliverance Lost to the top of my reading list even for the die hard BL fan base.in service,Rich

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