The Silent King: Volume 9 (Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of Fire)

Well written ending to a great series of books. Not quite as classic as the original Horus heresy books but getting there.

A good book that fits in to the ongoing history of warhammer

I'm a huge Necron fan, but often find them being watered down in most 40k fiction, not so in this book. The Necron's in this story are a near unstoppable force, one that even Rob Gill adults is unlike any enemy he has ever faced. There are even hits that even Chaos may have cause to fear a fully awaken Necron race, highly recommend.

It is a good read

Good read and I like guy as an author. More downs than ups but it keeps you reading rite the way thrhough

It is a good story, however considering it is titled The Silent King the necorns are very much secondary characters. Silent king appears in a paragraph

Good story

I’ll keep this review short to minimise spoilers. The title makes it clear that this episode of Dawn of War is all about Necrons and has little connection to the main story arc, which was about Chaos. It does not in any way resolve the DoW story arc…to a degree, okay a small degree, Hand of Abaddon did that. Silent King seems to be just bolted on as a sort of link in the chain between DoW and the earlier novels of Dark Imperium, given that GW have been shuffling around the time line. It isn’t a satisfying close to DoW and it doesn’t work as a stand-alone novel. The plot is weak and doesn’t go anywhere. The writing is fine so I suspect the author was heavily constrained by GW’s marketing desire to ‘advance the story’.

I've enjoyed this entire series.Come on in this book helps to bring things to a close. The next series you should read is the dark imperium. I'm already read this series but going back and reading this book certainly me understand several things that come up later.

Hat alles gepasst

very nice work from Guy Haley once again! a nice way of tidying up a few of the recents storyline together in an interesting way!

I understand some of the criticism that fellow readers commented in the review section. I ask you to read this book not as the penultimate book in a 9 book series but as a thing of its own. The book entails the first true major all out space engagement between the Necron and the Imperium. Many of the characters who were built up in the previous books will make a return. Without spoiling anything, I can definitively say that I thoroughly enjoyed the book and its lore implications.

The series started on a high note and ended with a resigned whimper that is this book. On its own, the The Silent King is okay-ish; as the culmination of the Dawn of Fire series, it fails. Haley simply ignores the pig's breakfast his co-authors have made of the series. I can't say I blame him for that. He started DoF on a high note, with lots of potential and with a monumental narrative of Guilliman's first grand action, but it went downhill very fast thanks to his co-authors and did not recover. More than anything, this book reads like Haley's attempt to extricate himself from a failed series. Haley simply takes this as an opportunity to draw a line behind the previous entries and instead of writing a finale, he writes an intro to the Plaguewars and especially to the two books about Cawl (and Bile). To be honest, Necrons are a good tool to ignore the crass and too often nonsensical content introduced in previous books and to just wrap things up without anything previously written mattering one tiny bit. Here is a quick summary of the book: all the interesting background and context characters from the first books? Never heard of them. Guilliman's historitors? Never existed. Chaos machinations? Don't be silly, it never happened. All the promising characters from the early books? Butchered by Kyme's girlboss fetish and disturbing personal agenda in book 5 and later. A promising series that ended before it had time to soar. Pity. With a small wayback machine I would have skipped this whole series just because of how flat and weak it all turned out to be.