The Hunt for Voldorius (Space Marine Battles) Paperback – August 18, 2015

Andy Hoare's HUNT FOR VOLDORIOUS has all the "minimum requirements" for a book in the Space Marine Battles series. There's a Space Marine chapter (White Scars, in this case), an enemy (Alpha Legion and traitor militia), and plenty of over the top violence (I lost track of the number of times someone was cut in half). Unfortunately, it's a little short on story, and as a result doesn't really hold up well with either RYNN's WORLD or HELLSREACH (the first two books in the series).The 3rd company of the White Scars have vowed to bring down the daemon Voldorius, who is bent on releasing the Bloodtide once more. They track him to the desolate planet of Quintus V, where they join forces with the 3rd company of the Blood Ravens, who are there on a related but separate mission. There is mutual distrust between the two chapters, but out of necessity they work together to achieve both their aims. Along the way there are many bloody battles, with all the chainsword flesh rendering and bolt gun carnage most 40K fans have come to enjoy.But in my opinion the story is long on daemons and warp, and shorter on Space Marine tactics, cooperation, and domination. The introduction of a second chapter (Blood Ravens) as tentative allies detracts rather than adds to the story line, and in the end the whole book just sort of felt average and unremarkable.I wouldn't go so far as to say "disappointing," but it's pretty average. True Space Marine fans will find something to enjoy in here, but if you just dabble in this world, there are other titles more worth your time.If this review is not helpful to you, please leave a comment as to why so I may improve my reviews.

Not bad. An interesting take seeing the White Scars pursue an Alpha Legion target and how difficult this is. The Alpha Legion are an intriguing group, although Voldorius himself shows less of that himself. But a good and satisfying look at Space Marines taking on a Chaos daemon threat. The writing wasn't bad - not Graham McNeill by any means, but flowed well and enjoyable.

This book had a decent villain wish there was more of him and his second-in-command. I always love to have a book where the Raven guard show up. Overall writing of the book was kind of weak though

Bland characters, disjointed plot, jarring shifts of perspective, mediocre battle scenes. Not remotely worth the price or time spent reading

nothing wrong with this book, but nothing great ether

The White Scars are a bit off from most chapters I read about so it took me a while to get into this book. Once in, I really enjoyed it. The ending was typical for Space Marine novels but it was a decent ending. All-in-all this was not the best 40K book I have read but it was worth reading.

An excellent read. Both the Space Marine chapters are well represented, and the storyline is entertaining. The battle sequences are well done.

Okay.

Ok

Good book, slightly too slow at parts, but then i still i enjoyed it!

My son loved this

I don't know why others come down on this one so hard. It was fascinating and interesting page turner. I would have liked it to keep going actually, and that is it's flaw. There wasn't enough dialogue between the 2 chapters, and the ending just kind of left things hanging.

der Roman beschreibt den Kampf einer Kommandoeinheit gegen einen Chaoschampion. Wie so üblich, in dieser Art von Roman, wird erklärt dass das Unterfangen wohl schon über viele Jahre sich erstreckt und häufig zu Misserfolgen führte. Die Einheit ist fanatisch darauf bedacht ihr Ziel zu finden, und gibt sich in einer Weise, dass sie genau wissen mit was ist zu tun haben. die Beschreibung der absoluten Überlegenheit eines Space Marine normalen Truppen gegenüber wird hier allerdings etwas überdehnt. Das häufig absolut überhebliche Verhalten der Einheit, zeigt ganz klar warum sie ihr Ziel über so viele Zeiträume hinweg nicht fassen konnten. Ansonsten ganz gut.