416 Pages - Published in 2013
Warhammer 40K
Tau vs IG & Space Marine vs Chaos
So I recently finished this book. I've started several years ago, fifteen years ago when I was playing the game. Didn't you know this is a game? It is. And this is novel adaptation.... so true be told feels like one. Our main character Kais is undoubtly one of the most powerful tau characters to exist. He kills without mercy. So powerful beyond belief. That's one thing that really turn me off in space marines novels and here again... the same stuff. It's action beyond action... although to be fair Simon although making Kais almost invincible he sure gave him problems and he sure went to trouble, almost killing him several times. In the game he killed a thousand IG, Space Marines & Chaos stuff. Here although he killed a lot we don't feel the same stuff. This was the instance where the book was better than the movie Game.
We've got here Tau trying to expand, you've got humans that kidnap a ethereal and they are trying to get it back. At the same time you've got space marines working as body guards (hmm) and dying as easily as the IG. You've got plots and twists and chaos stuff... Not gonna spoil.. Read the novel or play the game.
One of my main problem was all the Tau words floating around. Sometimes it felt strange and I know it's cool to know some Tau words but we've never going t see them again. The problem was on page 10 he explains a rotaa is but never showing it again until page 300. The same with names and ranks and so on. It was very strange and until the end I really was over my head.
But it's not a bad book. There are better of course out there. But unfortunately if you like to play Tau there aren't that many books with them.
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