Vulkan Lives Mass Market Paperback – 22 May 2014

Ce tome 26 de l'Hérésie d'Horus met en scène Vulkan, le primarque des Salamanders, dont on nous révèle le destin après Istvaan-V: capturé par Konrad Curze, le primarque des Night Lords, et torturé physiquement et psychologiquement par celui-ci.Nick Kyme nous révèle les liens entre les deux, et les raisons pour lesquelles Vulkan et Curze se haïssent, au-delà du seul fait de leur divergences concernant la valeur de la vie humaine.Une deuxième ligne scénaristique met en scène des rescapés d'Istvaan-V poursuivant des Word Bearers débarqués sur une planète dans le but d'en offrir la population aux entités du Warp. Entre les deux légions, un mystérieux personnage essaie de survivre après avoir déterré un artefact oublié dans un étrange temple octogonal...Sans spoiler ceux qui n'ont pas déjà lu les pages des sites consacrés à l'univers de l'Hérésie d'Horus, on retrouve ici un personnage-clé des événements survenus près de vingt tomes auparavant, qui sera bientôt aux prises avec l'un des personnages les plus détestés et les plus honnis de tout l'univers 30K...La force de ces deux romans-en-un qui ne se recouperont jamais dans cet ouvrage est de pénétrer dans la psychologie de ses personnages, montrant les légions brisées comme réellement brisées, physiquement mais surtout moralement, en particulier les Salamanders qui pensent avoir perdu leur primarque et ont perdu avec lui l'espoir de remporter la guerre. Vulkan, surtout, est incroyablement humain et le révèle avec plus de force à mesure que Curze le torture, même si ce dernier essaie de faire remonter le monstre qui est en lui pour lui montrer qu'ils ne sont pas différents.On en apprend beaucoup sur le primarque des Salamanders, et le roman semble faire avancer un minimum les choses de ce côté-là de la galaxie. A suivre dans les prochains volumes, donc.Globalement, un roman satisfaisant même s'il ne casse pas des briques comme Félon ou le Premier Hérétique avaient pu le faire. On sent qu'il pose des bases pour la seconde moitié de la série, tout en faisant le lien avec des événements qui ont marqué les 25 premiers volumes (et dont on a eu du mal à sortir...). Bref, un moment de lecture sympa, qui ravira les fans des Salamanders et saura satisfaire les autres.

This was the first Salamanders book and I liked it a lot.Spoilers:The Numeon arc was sluggish and the title is a massive spoiler. However, Nick's first person chapter's of Vulkan while in the Night Haunter's clutches was fantastic.

Awesome book

Azione , una storyline rispettata e due primarchi carismatici ben scritto , contiene elementi che ampliano le notizie sull'evoluzione dell'eresia..Konrad Kurze dimostra , se qualcuno aveva dei dubbi, di essere uno psicotico da manuale (pure con istinti suicidi ) Vulkan è uno stoico..consigliato a prescindere ma se non si conosce la saga si perde molto

Vulkan Lives has many negative reviews. Most are at the approach of how the Black Library is choosing to cut apart the Heresy of which can be seen & felt in many books, & of course impacts this one as well. Mainly, only bits & pieces are given & along with a totally fragmented time line, there are many loose ends, cliff hangers & mysteries which carry over to another book at another time, perhaps even an audio drama or a Black Library exclusive which you'll have to fork over $50 or more. I agree with many of the negative comments from the fans, because, books series survive only through their fans, & so these complaints should be listened to. However, these complaints didn't come to mind while I was reading Nick Kyme's Vulkan Lives. It didn't disappoint me. I purchased this book after reading the bad reviews & so didn't go in with much hope, but I had read the Salamanders omnibus and was interested in their primarch. Promethean Sun was another book which put Vulcan at center stage, but I have to say, that story didn't feel worthy of being novella and Vulcan deserving. I'm not the biggest Kyme fan, and although, like another reader stated, switching from first to third person was very noticeable, unlike him, I really enjoyed it. Although the primarchs are idolized by their sons & the Imperium, it does turn out they are much more screwed up than pretty much everyone else. This book had awesome characters, yeah I do feel the Iron Hands could have been developed more & the Black Library seems to kill off all of the good ones & leave those you don't like alive. I would have loved to have read about the small group of Istvaan V survivors in another book, so like usual, I wold have preferred a different ending, I think the perfect example is the ending for The Outcast Dead, love the small group of Space Marines who actually had their own personality but were killed off. This book had a lot of emotion, which I think fit perfectly with the Salamanders, & the new insight on Vulkan just threw him up there as my favorite primarch next to Perturabo. He has his father's strength & immortality, which can really open this up as a return of primarchs to new 40K settings, how awesome would that be, maybe Vulkan can bring back his 2 expunged brothers, jeez, I would love to read something like that. Things I didn't like: John Grammaticus is a horrible character whom was especially whiny in this book; the Cabal is a very bad ploy to keep any type of decent plot going, Cabal has to be the worst thing in this series. Overall, this was a very good read with a ton of description & discovery on the immortal Vulkan. This book deserves at least an average 4 star rating, come on peeps, push those ratings up.