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

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But I personally don’t want my fiction to necessarily be “realistic” – I want my fiction to be entertaining. "

Many stories in the Star Wars expanded universe seem to be in sets of 3’s, like the trilogies we see in theaters. If the novels had been made into movies (they should have been), then the “Thrawn Trilogy” could have been episodes 7, 8, and 9. Then there were several story arc’s leading to this current book.Tahle knížka není pro sklerotiky. Ačkoliv se považuju za fanouška Warhammeru 40.000, tak se mi v paměti drží tak maximálně velké legie, hlavní primarchové a pár důležitých hlavních postav. Tahle kniha je spoustu dílků rozsypané stavebnice, pro lidi, kteří mají paměť jako slon… nebo si dělají poznámky. I když tady jsou i delší věci, které nabízí i nějaký samostatný příběh, tak dost z toho jsou spíš jen střípky do mozaiky, popisující, jak hrdina dostal rukavici, jak mu definitivně hráblo, co dělal mezi dvěma velkými příběhy, jak se dali tyhle postavy dohromady… nebo prostě jen jak kdo uvažuje. Pro mě tahle kniha byla seznamem informací, které by byly určitě zajímavé, kdybych si je do doby čtení další knihy zvládl zapamatovat. Plus, další nevýhoda téhle knihy – žádný Abnett. Ten celkově z Horus Heresy vymizel, což je dost mrzuté. I didn't have many memories of Betrayal. Since it came out in the summer of 2006, I probably got it from the library while I was on summer break. I knew the overarching plot, but there were a lot of things here that caught me by surprise. There's no build up. It isn't established (clearly enough anyway) that Jacen has unshakable confidence in his clairvoyance to kill a friend. hey man, the Sith are the cool ones....they can feel emotions and stuff. It's just a different way of doing the same thing, ect ect."

Another positive note: Jacen Solo once again displays his tendency to think for himself. In this first-in-a-series title, you might wonder whether this time it's going to lead him into the kind of consequences he hasn't had to regret so far. Completists (not a word, I know) will find it reminiscent of Traitor, but not close to the same class. Something of a rogue himself, Jacen is nevertheless duty bound as a Jedi to stand with his uncle, Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, on the side of the Galactic Alliance. But when the wary Corellians launch a counterstrike, the Alliance’s show of force–and a secret mission to disable Corellia’s crucial Centerpoint Station–give way to an armed skirmish. Once the smoke clears, the battle lines are drawn. Now the specter of full-scale war looms between a growing cadre of defiant planets and the Galactic Alliance that some fear is becoming a new Empire. And even as both sides struggle to find a diplomatic solution, mysterious acts of treachery and sabotage threaten peace efforts at every turn. Aaron Dembski-Bowden is the author of the Horus Heresy novels Betrayer and The First Heretic, as well as the novella Aurelian and the audio drama Butcher’s Nails, for the same series. He also wrote The Talon of Horus, the popular Night Lords series, the Space Marine Battles book Helsreach, the Grey Knights novel The Emperor’s Gift and numerous short stories. He lives and works in Northern Ireland. I especially enjoyed Honour to the Dead as it brought a human level of emotional toll that the incessant wars were having for inhabitants of the worlds as well as show a gentle and human side to the space marines.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. However, fast forward to the winter of 2022, some fifteen years after the original release. The landscape of Star Wars fandom is massively different. Countless novels, games, comics have been rendered as "Legends" tier canon following the Disney acquisition of George Lucas' franchise, including this very title. When The Force Awakens was released in cinemas, I thought the movie franchise might be in good hands, and I was pretty certain upon the release of Rogue One that it was worth sacrificing my beloved "Extended Universe" to see new Star Wars content on the big screen. Unfortunately, everything that followed has made me think otherwise. Again I realize that I prefer Guy Haley’s longer works compared to the short stories. Good thing about this one - human characters, they were interesting, but Astartes – not so much. My issue here is also the fact that I am rarely a fan of both Space Wolves and Alpha Legion stories, and here we have them both. Probably just not my cup of tea.

The biggest thing about most licensed media is the author's inability to make drastic change, and while I've been afforded this luxury in Green Lama novels, for the longest time many of the characters in the Star Wars universe were forced to live an ultimately "safe" world. Luke/Han/Leia would always survive, so would their friends and family. It made the novels feel unimportant, because, really, what's the point of them if at the end of the day the heroes win and nothing was really at stake?This one actually impressed me quite a lot. As much as I enjoyed both Astartes and this obsessed traitor Princeps, the human character, a mother protecting her child, was the one who really did it for me. Betrayal” was published in 2006, and it probably goes without saying how impactful the tragic events of Sept.11 five years prior had on the SWEU and, specifically, this series. To wit, the first several books in the NJO series were written and published before 9/11/01. It has never been an exaggeration to say that the world changed dramatically after 9/11, and the same can be said for the SWEU.