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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gban007" data-source="post: 9836219" data-attributes="member: 56488">Started new year reading Interceptor City by Dan Abnett, following closing 2025 reading Double Eagle and Apostle's Creed from Sabbat Worlds to refresh my memory.Certainly a bit weird reading the intro to Sabbat World, with weirdness on timing - talking about some of the Horus Heresy novels, that still feels relatively a recent series, despite coming out 20 years ago :/  I still remember the excitement of them actually going to detail the Heresy (and despite a few lows and a fair amount of bloat, I still think a great series overall).  And then the intro mentions Interceptor City, as on radar,  and i remener looking forward to it but in end came out some 14 years later.All that aside, book itself was a good read. Something of a melancholy one, showing truth of 40k galaxy of always being war, as describes time elapsed since Double Eagle a lot, but war still going.  Was nice to see some of the characters again, and references to others we know, and has good usual mix of action and tension throughout, with one quite tense passage near the end.  Highly recommend to anyone who has read Double Eagle, but I think it would still be a solid standalone read.Also read Pandora Outbreak by Eric Harry.  An enjoyable read, apocalyptic in nature but quite slow paced., though not detrimental, but opposed to say the Stand, the event is described more day by day as it gets worse.  Also clearly building up as book 1 of a series.I found the two main characters quite interesting. Other characters a lot less fleshed out, but seemed reasonable consequence of how our point of view characters view the world. Also some interesting ruminations on self and consciousness.  Nonetheless, despite all these good points, tge overall story and some of the plot / editing decisions (seemed a bit weirdly edited in parts, or choices between dialogs and skimming through general points of what was said put me off a bit) pushed it more to a 3 out of 5 compared to Interceptor City being closer to 5.I would like to read the rest of the trilogy, but not at full price.</blockquote>

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