Ravenor Rogue – Dan Abnett

3 stars

The Ravenor series concludes with Ravenor Rogue, and what a conclusion it was. For better or worse…..

Let’s talk some good things. This book had all the action and drama that I’ve been waiting for in the first two of the trilogy. Things have finally come to a head for Ravenor and his crew, and everything falls apart pretty quickly once it starts. I really enjoyed the pacing of this book and finally getting some answers to questions I’ve had since the start.

However, I’ve got a few issues; starting with the female characters. I feel like they took steps back here. Kara was an integral force in Ravenor’s group, but once her relationship with Belknap started, she became one dimensional and so much less integral. Patience, while extremely cool and badass in her own right, was so focused on Ravenor that she lost herself in the process. And Angharad…..Evisorex thirsts. That’s all I, and she, have to say. God bless practical Maud Plyton as the most developed of them all.

I also think the ending left a lot to be desired. Eisenhorn was satisfying at its end because you got a fairly good idea of what happened to the characters, or at least where they went. Ravenor is far more ambiguous and vague, and it left me unsatisfied. I’m hoping that the first of the Bequin novels will fill in some blanks, but I’d have liked to have these answers, at least a little, at the end of Rogue.