Quite often fiction based on game or movie settings just are not that good. They seem to be churned out with a desire to pump them to the fans and not really hold much value, often not getting much more respect than romance novels. Once in a while you stumble on a book or series that suprises you. The “Ravenor” series written by Dan Abnett was one of those suprises for me. I had been wanting to give a book in the Warhammer 40,000 universe a try and Dan Abnett has written quite a few, so I figured it would be safe to give the first in the trillogy a chance.

Initially I was a little worried. The title character is a telepath, and the author pulls the cliche run down of minds as Ravenor scans the city looking for someone. Reading that just turns me off everytime I see it or anything similar used. Fortunatly it only happens, if I remember correctly once in this book and once in the last book of the trilogy. Other than that the books are just good dark SciFi/Fantasy fun.  Good plots, decent villains, supporting characters you feel are worth knowing without spending too much unnecesary tiem learnign backstory for them.

Being a trilogy my 2nd fear was the 2nd book. No problems there and the 3rd book cleaned things up nicely. So I see no reason not to rate the whole group with a single rating.