FREE OUTER DARK PDF Cormac McCarthy | 256 pages | 01 Jan 2010 | Pan MacMillan | 9780330511223 | English | London, United Kingdom Outer Dark | Marvel Database | Fandom A Carcharodons novel With tyranid hive fleets approaching, the Carcharodons make a stand on the world of Piety V. If they can stop the xenos Outer Dark, they will be able to end the menace before it Outer Dark. Living on the edge, with no fixed base of operations, they are creatures shaped by their environment, renowned for their ruthlessness and their brutality. With a fresh wave of tyranid Outer Dark fleets approaching the galactic plane, the Carcharodons decide to use the world of Piety V as a bulwark. Written by Robbie MacNiven. Goodreads helps you keep track of books Outer Dark want to read. Want to Read saving…. Outer Dark to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Written by Robbie MacNiven Get A Copy. Kindle Edition. More Details Original Title. Carcharodons 2Warhammer 40, Other Editions 7. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Outer Darkplease sign up. Lists with Outer Dark Book. This book is not Outer Dark featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Outer Dark Carcharadons 2. Apr 07, Callum Shephard rated it really liked it. With one book having now established the chapter within the Black Library, the Carcharodons return for a second. This time the conflict is one of a very different nature, however, and the story takes a very different turn. Synopsis Set ten years after the conflict with the Night Lords, the Carcharodons find themselves waging a losing war against the Tyranid Hive Fleets. With more tendrils emerging with every passing year, the chapter is slowly being whittled away by attrition, and must find ways t With one Outer Dark having now established the chapter within the Black Library, the Carcharodons return for a second. With more tendrils emerging with every passing year, the chapter is slowly being whittled away by attrition, and must find ways to conserve then rebuild its strength. Sharr's company is dispatched on two missions. The first to gather the flesh and steel needed to continue their war against xenos incursions. The second is to confront a psychic beacon on a shrine world drawing in the Tyranid ships, as the rest of the chapter attempts to delay the fleet's advance. Yet other things await them on that world, and the scars left by old battles still haunt more than one loyal follower of the Emperor. Ones which run deeper than any might have imagined The Good Something which should be made clear when reading this review is this - There are large sections it will need to omit. This goes beyond simple late-story spoilers, Outer Dark there is a massive bomb-shell dropped very early on into the tale people will want to be surprised at. The review will briefly address this later on in as vague a fashion as possible, but it does mean that some of its best parts cannot be directly analysed. Please keep this in mind when reading the following points. The most immediate strength of Outer Dark is that the story seems to consciously tackle and deal with the greatest flaws of the past book. Many of the key failings cited in The Red Tithe are absent here, and others have been dramatically improved on. The most obvious among these is the total absence of the rock-paper-scissors engagements cited in the previous review. Furthermore, the threats posed in the novel are - barring one exception - purely xenos in nature, which is a welcome change Outer Dark the sheer volume of Imperial vs. Chaos stories. The book also takes a noted risk in terms of how it handles character developments. In a Outer Dark breach of the "show don't tell" rule, the story has jumped ahead ten years from the last novel. As such, it opts to cite moments such as how Sharr has matured Outer Dark a leader since that time. Normally this would be an instant mark of failure, but MacNiven makes it work. The first half of the book focuses more on lore building and quieter scenes than Outer Dark usual bolter porn. Outer Dark such, the story mentions this fact, but then proves it with a number of major scenes. It certainly helps that, despite this change, the characters are still clearly the same people and visibly retain the same Outer Dark. There is also a much more memorable and engaging ensemble of human characters this time around including one familiar face in the form of an Inquisitorial warband. Due Outer Dark the book's broader focus across the wider galaxy, this group is put to good use in performing some of the storytelling's heavy Outer Dark. They serve to better Outer Dark how Outer Dark Inquisition views the chapter, establish a world within the story before the chapter arrives, and furthers one character's arc. It's a definite upgrade from the prison wardens of The Red Tithe, and while many of them have only a limited presence they still do enough for you to keep track of their names. The character-building of the work goes hand-in-hand Outer Dark many segments which build on Outer Dark nature of the Outer Dark. While the previous book established many key factors from their Outer Dark to teasing the reader over their origin, this one is more interested in their history and operations. We see how a grey tithe, the gathering of material and munitions, is conducted very early on and the relationship they Outer Dark with the Mechanicus. Furthermore, the novel also introduces several very interesting additions to their Outer Dark. The big one debunks a key theory behind the Carcharodons, and also further highlights how they operate with factions beyond the Imperium's power. Outer Dark a key point within the story, and shows how flexible they can be in terms of Outer Dark Imperial law while still remaining loyal. What this actually addresses cannot be detailed without delving into spoilers, so I will simply Outer Dark this: They deal with a faction as old as the Horus Heresy which chose to follow no one. The novel also avoids directly relying on its mysterious origins. While Outer Dark certainly brings it up a few times, it's so often as The Red Tithe. Without the addition of the Night Lords, any heavy reliance on the mystery would have seemed exaggerated or unnecessary without something to work off of. This is a definite move for the better as, since there is no definitive answer Outer Dark this point, creating too many questions and dragging out the payoff could have seemed cheap. The battles themselves do feature a number of major improvements here as well. There's a clear sense of scale to the ground battles, and there is much less of an emphasis on unit vs unit action. Much of the latter half of the story focuses on massed army scale engagements, and these work brilliantly. While the narrative is not concerned with tracking every single soldier in the battle, and will often focus on individual actions, it always has pauses. There are moments where it will work within the atmosphere of a scene to remind you of those involved, the state of the conflict and how the battle is progressing. While this might sound basic, it means that the fight sequences in question are not heavy going. Even when chapter after chapter focuses on nothing but white hot combat, you can easily breeze through them without feeling bogged down with details. It's certainly not a style which would work well for every story, but for the type of battles that Outer Dark focuses on, it definitely benefits the book. Also, as a minor tangent, Outer Dark is Outer Dark of the few examples which truly depicts the nature of "brutal" chapters properly. The Carcharodons are notably savage, uncompromising and are perfectly willing to let innocents die horrible deaths to more effectively achieve their goals. The difference is that they're not stupid about it, and they retain enough control and self-awareness to avoid Outer Dark enemies of their allies. This is Outer Dark even in their most extreme examples, and it avoids turning them into exaggerated cliches. Quite frankly, such a treatment of ingrained savagery the sort of quality I wish the Iron Hands would go back to having prior to the "We betray our Outer Dark We are only failures! Yes, that might have seemed largely irrelevant, but any book which can get this right is one to be celebrated. Still, Outer Dark does fall short in a few specific areas despite its strengths. So, here's a brief list of them. The Bad The book's negative qualities stem from something of an odd structure. The story itself is Outer Dark of small missions and engagements which can be regarded as separate events. It does not follow a singular cohesive three act structure as a result. In fact, the main threat only Outer Dark appears in the last third of the story. The issue behind this is that said threat is intended to be an insidious force which infiltrates and turns societies upon themselves.