Book Club Book #154: Dawn of Fire: The Silent King by Guy Haley

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, Discord, email, or vox cast.

For this episode, we’re reading Dawn of Fire: The Silent King by Guy Haley. At long last the DoF series comes to an end! You can purchase it at Amazon, Black Library, and Audible.

From the back of the book:

The Avenging Son must delay his return home and head to the galactic south, taking a large part of the crusade with him, for the menace of the necrons is gathering strength. Battlefleet Kallides, despatched into the dangerous null space of the Pariah Nexus some years before, is feared lost. A greater unity is being forged between the necron dynasties, and with it come whispers of a power from the ancient past returned to rule them all… Whispers of the Silent King.

Discussion guide for Dawn of Fire: The Silent King

• Did you like the book?
• Which parts stood out to you?
• There’s a lot going on in this book, whose story were you most invested in?
• Haley attempts to weave a LOT of books into this story: The Dark City and Lords of Silence leap to mind. Did you like that? Does it make a cohesive narrative?
• There’s a lot of storyline wrap up. Were you satisfied with minor character ends?
• The Necrons are the big bad… again. Are we interested? Do we like this?
• The end quite literally ties this series to The Dark Imperium series. Does it make parts of this series feel moot? Redundant?
• Post-Mortem: Was it worth it?