Rebel Winter (Warhammer 40, 000)
This was the third book by the Imperial Guard novels. The first Fifteen Hours by M. Scanlon and Deathworld by Steve Lyons. What can I say? It continued the great debut and the second book (my favourite of the series).The book had a decent Commissar for once... Reading several book you tend to get incompetents, or heroes that completely fail to act like Commissars. He was also interesting, in that he didn't always get on with everyone else. In fact, many of the characters didn't...usually anyone the heroes don't like turns out to be a coward, traitor or deserter at some stage later on. That didn't happened here and that was very good. Anti-Cliche. The soldiers acted like soldiers and de the Medicae in the end of the book instead of the "fight to the death" to save the wounded just give them something to ease them off into death so the orks can't get to them before he goes to fight to his death. In the begining and the end the main character is on trial... I think that there wasn't much point putting the trial in, and no real reason at at sticking Space Marines, the Inquisition and an infil-traitor in. Not all books in 40k need SMs and Inquisitor. But it was not that important and revelant to story. In the end I would recommend this book to anyone who wanted to read a Soldiers point of view book. As I would recommend Fifteen Hours.
