Book: Luther: First of the Fallen
Luther has been one of those mysterious secondary Dark Angel characters, mentioned frequently but without much real background. This book comes to fill that gap, although with a narrative style and content that I'm not so sure it's the best...
Luther has being held captive in some secret jail deep inside the Rock, the Dark Angels flagship, for thousands of years. With the help of the Watchers in the Dark, they keep the prisoner in stasis, only letting him out to be interrogated over and over, by different grand masters and key characters from the chapter.
I don't want to dwell into details, as that's the main point of the novel, but it is really more of a collection of small stories about Luther's past, combined with the main interrogations arc. Remembering old times and certain key points and events sounds good, but when some of them are pretty generic sci-fi small tales... not so well executed. I am happy to learn something about the character's early days, but I'm not interested in too many great beast hunts with cheap morals/lessons. I can only imagine the interrogators falling asleep while their prisoner goes on an on giving precise details of useless information, instead of answering the simple asked question of "do you repent?".
It was not boring, but it felt a bit of lure into a generic sci-fi book. It does however contain some sparks of really interesting content, which I won't detail. So, a recommended reading only if you are a Dark Angels fan.