A review by shookone
The Flight of the Eisenstein by James Swallow

2.0

I had really high hopes for this one. The concept sounded cool to me, and I was genuinely curious to see what ship to ship warfare looks like in the Warhammer setting. This just didn’t deliver though. The first third or so of the book is only barely relevant to the rest of the plot. The second third is just rehashing material from the previous three books in the series. The last third of the book is when the plot finally gets started, and to be fair things get better at that point. The book especially shines during an absolutely unhinged cosmic horror freak out section, and during the one moment in the story where you see these big giant capital ships playing cat and mouse with each other. If the whole book was like those two segments this would be an easy five stars. As it is, both of these segments are fairly brief, and they stand out so much partially because they’re so unlike anything else in the story. Very much my shit but there just isn’t enough of it to keep me happy.