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A review by brian
Enforcer: The Shira Calpurnia Omnibus by Matthew Farrer
4.0
Three book omnibus of Warhammer 40,000 novels.
Crossfire
Introduces Shira Calpurnia as she is assigned to Hydraphur as an Arbitor Senioris.
As the planet builds up to a holy procession, Shira finds herself under attack. Unsure if it directed at her personally or the Arbites in general, or as a plan to disrupt events, she is caught up in the politics of major and minor families.
A lot of action leading to a satisfying finish.
Legacy
Less focused on Shira, this mostly follows the line of succession of a Rogue Trader with a writ signed by the Emperor himself back in the pre-Heresy days.
Multiple factions want their person named as the heir to the title, while the Ecclisiarchy want to get their hands on a sacred relic.
There's lots going on in multiple places and this does eventually come back round to Shira as the overall judge of who gets what.
Blind
Shira finds herself sent to the "witchroost" to investigate a closed-door murder mystery, which isn't helped by being the location of the most powerful Psykers' in the segment.
Mostly character driven, and it dragged along in places. Would have liked a more definite ending to this one (without giving any spoilers away).
Being an omnibus edition, it has some extra content in the form of personal letters between various people and excerpts from texts supposedly written by the different forms of government.
These don't really add anything to any of the stories.
Overall, a good collection of 40K fiction that isn't obsessing over Space Marines or Imperial Guard for a change.
Crossfire
Introduces Shira Calpurnia as she is assigned to Hydraphur as an Arbitor Senioris.
As the planet builds up to a holy procession, Shira finds herself under attack. Unsure if it directed at her personally or the Arbites in general, or as a plan to disrupt events, she is caught up in the politics of major and minor families.
A lot of action leading to a satisfying finish.
Legacy
Less focused on Shira, this mostly follows the line of succession of a Rogue Trader with a writ signed by the Emperor himself back in the pre-Heresy days.
Multiple factions want their person named as the heir to the title, while the Ecclisiarchy want to get their hands on a sacred relic.
There's lots going on in multiple places and this does eventually come back round to Shira as the overall judge of who gets what.
Blind
Shira finds herself sent to the "witchroost" to investigate a closed-door murder mystery, which isn't helped by being the location of the most powerful Psykers' in the segment.
Mostly character driven, and it dragged along in places. Would have liked a more definite ending to this one (without giving any spoilers away).
Being an omnibus edition, it has some extra content in the form of personal letters between various people and excerpts from texts supposedly written by the different forms of government.
These don't really add anything to any of the stories.
Overall, a good collection of 40K fiction that isn't obsessing over Space Marines or Imperial Guard for a change.