WH40k Book Club Episode #176 Part 2 – Hive Part 2 by Dan Abnett
Aug 7, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 10 segments
Genestealers. Why did it have to be genestealers. The post…
Aug 7, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 10 segments
Genestealers. Why did it have to be genestealers. The post…
Jen BosierHostKeriHostUh, sure.
But did I like it? No, I did not.
There were glimpses of greatness and then utter failure.
The big, the big question I would like to ask Mr. Abnett, for someone who spent 400 pages building a world, what was the point just to burn it all down? I was totally expecting this to be a kickoff to, like, a series of stuff going on in-
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Sacramentus.
Why? Because you went through great detail building this world with the terminology, with dialects, with history, with art, and all these characters, some of them seeming not to have anything to do with anything, uh, uh, just for nothing.
Why?
So I think, uh, uh, I think people in here, if you listen to this podcast enough, you've heard me give my rant about, like, The Walking Dead and its ilk.
Um, but one of the things I never really l- enjoyed about The Walking Dead is that there are zombies.
There are [laughs] there are zombies, right? This is a real existential problem and a threat, and th- there's this literal monster coming through, right? And they focus a lot on the personal drama, and just, like, the, "Ugh, I don't like this person." And we've got zombies.
I don't care about your interpersonal drama and politics, and none of this matters really.
Mm-hmm.
And that was something that kind of frustrated me with this book, was that there...
It comes to a very distinct point where it's like, oh, n- nothing that's happened in this book up to this point, the burn, the politics, the back and forth, the backstabbing, the potential murder mystery, the Slaanesh cult, none of this matters.
Uh, sure.
But did I like it? No, I did not.
There were glimpses of greatness and then utter failure.
The big, the big question I would like to ask Mr. Abnett, for someone who spent 400 pages building a world, what was the point just to burn it all down? I was totally expecting this to be a kickoff to, like, a series of stuff going on in-
...
Sacramentus.
Why? Because you went through great detail building this world with the terminology, with dialects, with history, with art, and all these characters, some of them seeming not to have anything to do with anything, uh, uh, just for nothing.
Why?
So I think, uh, uh, I think people in here, if you listen to this podcast enough, you've heard me give my rant about, like, The Walking Dead and its ilk.
Um, but one of the things I never really l- enjoyed about The Walking Dead is that there are zombies.
There are [laughs] there are zombies, right? This is a real existential problem and a threat, and th- there's this literal monster coming through, right? And they focus a lot on the personal drama, and just, like, the, "Ugh, I don't like this person." And we've got zombies.
I don't care about your interpersonal drama and politics, and none of this matters really.
Mm-hmm.
And that was something that kind of frustrated me with this book, was that there...
It comes to a very distinct point where it's like, oh, n- nothing that's happened in this book up to this point, the burn, the politics, the back and forth, the backstabbing, the potential murder mystery, the Slaanesh cult, none of this matters.
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