Every two weeks we read a new book in the WH40k universe and discuss it on our podcast. We invite you to read along with us and join in on our conversation via comments, Twitter, email, or vox cast.
For this episode, we’re reading the recent reprint of Deathworlder by Victoria Hayward. You can purchase it at Amazon, Black Library, or Audible.
From the back of the book:
Lazulai is a world beyond the brink, its battle against the tyranids all but lost. Once-magnificent cities lie in ruin. The seas boil. The skies crack. Horrific alien bioforms devour. In mere days the planet will be consumed.
The 903rd Catachan ‘Night Shrikes’ defend one of the last fortresses still standing. Led by Major Wulf Khan, to die fighting is all that is expected of them… until she is given one last mission: to lead a squad through the apocalypse and recover a piece of archeotech that may doom or deliver the entire Lazulai System.
Facing impossible odds and zero hope for aid, the major must hold her squad together as they pick their way through an endless xenos jungle. The enemy is merciless, relentless, endlessly adaptable and formidably resourceful… but so too is Khan.
Questions to ponder after reading Deathworlder:
- Did you like the book?
- Which parts stood out to you?
- The last Tyranid book we enjoyed dealt with Space Marines. Do the Tyranids “hit” different against humans?
- Was Major Khan a good leader of her people? Did you enjoy her as a character?
- Did you like the Adair x Anditz pairing? Was this the Death Worlder combo we all needed?
- Wrathe was not our typical tech priest. Did you like her addition to the team?
- Was it WORTH it?
