Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter by Guy Haley

1.5 stars

Full disclosure before my review: I’ve only met Konrad and his legion in a couple shorts in prior primarch anthologies.

Before reading this book, I really liked Konrad as a character. He’s so much different than his brothers, or at least the ones I’ve met so far, and that makes him so much fun to read about. He’s tortured by the decisions he’s made and the futures that he sees and believes are fated to pass, and is driven mad by the things he sees. What makes him maybe even more tragic than Angron is that if he’d only realized that what he was seeing was a possibility and not absolute fate, thing’s could have turned out so much differently.

But the real tragedy is this book. It took ages to get where it was going and then didn’t really finish the thought in the end. From the glimpses of Konrad and my favourite son, Sevatar, that I’ve had, these characters felt like a pale (some may even say…..cadaverous) imitation. It was almsot like I was reading placeholders of the characters rather than the characters themselves and it made it hard for me to get through this book.

That being said, it did have some interesting parts. The flesh amalgamation of Big E was real fun and Konrad’s journey to the end was at least somewhat interesting despite it portraying him as this violent psychopath without any rhyme or reason to his actions.

I love the Night Lords, but this book felt like a disservice to them and what they actually are.