Prince Lestat is seduced by the power of this ancient spirit, but is he right to trust it? Why has Lestat, leader of the vampires, been chosen as its bodily host?Īnd what of Atlantis, the mysterious heaven on earth? Why must the vampires reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of this ageless, all-powerful Atalantaya spirit? All-seeing, all-knowing, its voice whispers in his ear, telling the hypnotic tale of Atlantis, the great sea power of ancient times… And all the world was shaken…”Ī strange, otherworldly spirit has resurfaced, taking possession of his body and soul. I saw flames that outshone the lamps of heaven. “In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea. The twelfth Vampire Chronicle novel upends, once again, the origin story And so, when I learned that Hinks was writing his own Blood Angels novel, Blood of Sanguinius, my interest was piqued. This changed after I read Guy Haley’s Danteand James Swallow’s Fear to Tread. The Blood Angels have always been of interest, but never as much as the mysterious Dark Angels, or Norse/viking-inspired Space Wolves. I’ve also recently been reading and enjoying a fair number of BL’s Space Marine Heroes/Legends novels. I enjoyed what little of his work I have read (of particular note: Razumov’s Tomb and Sigvald). It’s been quite some time since I last read something by Darius Hinks. Yet there is more at work here than a mere ideological schism, for Mephiston believes Divinatus Prime could offer answers to how he became the Lord of Death, he who resisted the Black Rage, and possibly even a way to end the curse of ‘the Flaw’ in all Blood Angels. Each faction fights for dominance of a potent artefact, the Blade Petrific, said to be wrought by the Emperor Himself.

After enacting a powerful blood ritual, Mephiston and an honour guard of his fellow Blood Angels reach the stricken shrine world to find it seized by religious civil war. Only the Lord of Death himself, Blood Angels Chief Librarian Mephiston, has any hope of discerning the fate of this once pious world. The shrine world of Divinatus Prime has become lost to the light of the Astronomican and no ship can piece its veil.

An interesting, action-packed WH40k novel

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