They didn’t expect the success of the first few that made the times best seller list, thats like massively more than they expected to sell, so they increased the planned number and the quality dropped massively as they expanded to the authors to suit.
If you read just the best books you’d still get the same favour but cut it to about 20 books or so, including the best ones in the Siege of Terra that are the actual ending.
I got suckered in because the first book was by Dan Abnett, and I ran out of both Eisenhorn and Gaunt’s Ghosts, so Horus Heresy sounded like a good idea. I read about a dozen of them before I realised the poor quality of most of them outweights by investment in the story and gave up.
Some are pretty good.
Some are pretty not.
They didn’t expect the success of the first few that made the times best seller list, thats like massively more than they expected to sell, so they increased the planned number and the quality dropped massively as they expanded to the authors to suit.
If you read just the best books you’d still get the same favour but cut it to about 20 books or so, including the best ones in the Siege of Terra that are the actual ending.
I started but quit because there’s too much. Do you know where I can find a condensed list? I can handle 10-20 books, I can’t handle 60
Try this one for the best books, you won’t have all the plot lines but the main plot was decided decades before the series even started
https://booksreadlisten.com/best-horus-heresy-books/
I got suckered in because the first book was by Dan Abnett, and I ran out of both Eisenhorn and Gaunt’s Ghosts, so Horus Heresy sounded like a good idea. I read about a dozen of them before I realised the poor quality of most of them outweights by investment in the story and gave up.