Legacies of Betrayal: Let the Galaxy Burn (Horus Heresy)

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Act 2 becomes a mission to seek new information and solve the mystery as well as an “inching forward” of conflicts that are not yet resolved between Corellia and the combined military might of the G.A. Since Luke does NOT seem to be finding out what is happening, that means either no one is telling him OR he doesn’t care. Which is also STOOPID. Mara is smart-smart-smart, though. I will leave it at that. I enjoyed this novella. No mind blowing plot twists, but a good insight on White Scars, the way they fight, think, their traditions. Loved the fact that they were presented to us from different perspectives - both from inside the legion and from an outside observer. Honour to the Dead (*****) I'd give it way more stars if I could. Titans, Calth, Ultramarines and civilians. It was amazing to get about four different perspectives especially those of the regular citizens of Calth. Well Done. That is certainly An Interpretation. I’m just not sure it’s an interpretation I buy. While Vergere did terrible, morally dubious things, she’s always felt more like a Gray figure to me—neither Jedi nor Sith. I’m not sure that this is what Matthew Stover intended, or even James Luceno and Walter Jon Williams intended, but stories always evolve over time. I may not like this retcon—I think it makes more sense that Lumiya is lying to Jacen and giving him events “from a certain point of view” to push him towards her desired outcome—but that’s definitely not the official LotF explanation.

A bigger issue: I think that Betrayal is trying to do too much here. Not only is Allston setting up Jacen's Sith journey, but this conflict between the Galactic Alliance and Corellia which will spiral out to other systems. That's a lot to do, and unfortunately the book throws us into this Galactic Alliance military action against Corellia with not a lot of setup. We jump from “Corellia is unhappy about centralization” to the Galactic Alliance parking a fleet in Corellian space and sending in Jedi teams to kidnap Corellian heads of state. I know that the Dark Nest trilogy was all about this Chiss/Killik conflict in the Unknown Regions, but I would have liked to see hints of this situation in those preceding books. It would have helped to have this built up, instead of dropping the reader into the middle of a conflict that we’ve been told has been brewing behind the scenes—with not many examples of it before everything explodes. This is advice Pete Bagley never accepted. This scene from "Smiley's People" resurrected itself as I read this book, a thrilling story without question, but incomplete at best and beset with unsupported, if dubious evidence. Why was Pete Bagley conducting his 'private enterprise' to find the mole at the heart of the CIA's directorate of operations? Isn't this the job of the CIA's agency director, who at least for part of the time was the discredited J A collection of previously available short stories, novellas and text versions of audio dramas. A good way to catch some of the stuff you may have missed whether you don't enjoy the audio dramas, haven't gotten hold of the "exclusives" or refuse to pay the outlandish prices charged for the micro short stories. A few of them are bit out of place though, Lone Wolf and Lucius the Eternal Blade Master are bit farther in the future than anything previously published as Horus Heresy, into the Scouring for Lone Wolf perhaps and even further for Lucius.

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Legacies of Betrayal is the thirty-first volume of the The Horus Heresy series of novels and is an anthology collection of short stories and a novella. urn:oclc:record:1392416246 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier legaciesofbetray0000unse Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s22rtr7fpqv Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781849708364 So, I was quite surprised to see how much I enjoyed the late Aaron Alston's first book in the series. While note everything necessarily works -- Jacen's turn, while well foreshadowed still seems sudden, and Lumiya, a little know EU character's sudden appearance and large role left even me, who has a encyclopedic knowledge of the Star Wars universe, confused.

Meanwhile, Jacen is undergoing a very dangerous shift in his philosophical world-view, initiated by a mysterious woman who may be a long-lost Dark Jedi named Lumiya (first appearing in the 1981 Marvel Comics “Star Wars” series, issue #56). His movement toward the Dark Side is progressing, and it is leading him to a point of no return. Unfortunately, he is also responsible for the training of his cousin, 13-year-old Ben Skywalker. Master Luke senses a disturbance, but he is unaware of what is happening.I'm writing this review immediately following my second read of this book, the first being in the late 00s upon original release. I felt compelled to do so as with the benefit of hindsight, and dare I say wisdom, this book (and hopefully the series) has a renewed purpose and interest for Star Wars fans such as I. Nelani Dinn. Oh dear. I can almost hear the scissors at work. Cutting through the cardboard. She is... Jedi. Idealistic. Beautiful. In love with Jacen. When she was described I almost immediately envisioned her in the Trekkie red shirt. Modest yet form fitting, of course. And I gave her a generous 50% chance of surviving the end of the novel. She did not. And I was not sorry. I mean seriously, she was designed to die by Jacen's hand as a symbol for his rite of passage to Sith-hood and that was it. No reader with a decent sense of drama could avoid seeing it coming. Legacies of Betrayal is the thirty-first book in the Horus Heresy Series. It is was published in October 2014. I’ve read and listened to this story so many times, it’s definitely one of my all-time favorites. A great addition to the book Betrayer, we get a very clear description of how those nails actually affect the Red Angel, there’s a lot of foreshadowing, a change in Lorgar’s character compared to The First Heretic. AND the fierce Lotara Sarrin, hands down one of the best human characters in HH! It’s fascinating to see the relationship between Angron and Lorgar, knowing what happens next. The dynamic between Kharn and Argel Tal, who is already going through his unfortunate transformation, is the best thing. And then even the Eldar add some good flavor to this story. Love it. Only from out of great conflict can true heroes arise. With the galaxy aflame and war on an unimaginable scale tearing the Imperium apart, champions from both sides of the Horus Heresy venture onto countless fields of battle in service to their masters. They ask not for remembrance or reward—simply to meet their destiny head-on, and only by embracing that destiny will they come to learn what the unseen future may yet hold for them...