Customer Reviews
Abnett is class - By: Mr. L. J. Makins, 07 May 2007 
After reading Ravenor i was looking forward to Ravenor Returned & I wasn't disapointed. Its pure class throughout & comes to an exciting climax. The novel is pacy & Abnett really builds up a his cast of characters so you develop an attachment to both the heros & villians.
The twists & turns of the plot are complex but still easy to follow. But like most of Abnett's work rereading it allows you to pick up the details that might have been overlooked first time round but is no less exciting for it.
A top notch read & the best part of the Ravenor trilogy
more from the master of gothic sci-fi - By: , 06 Dec 2005 Abnett's done it again! This novel picks up from its predecessor, Ravenor,in telling the adventures of peripheral characters from Abnett's Eisenhorn trilogy. Gideon Ravenor, the paralysed psychic inquisitor from Malleus returns to an acid-rain slashed Blade Runner-esque sinkhole of a city, teetering on the edge of cataclysm. In a bid to track down the source of flects, a lethal hallucinogenic drug sweeping across the Scarus Sector, Ravenor discovers he has struck the tip of a far larger & more sinister conspiracy to supply contraband technology. Up to his eyesin Imperial corruption, Ravenor & his team must make frantic time to stay alive & prevent the administration from summoning a nameless horror into existence. Ravenor Returns is brutal, bleak & unflinching gothic sci-fi from one of the masters of the genre.
great restoration of confidence - By: G. Hayes, 29 Mar 2005 I know that some people felt Ravenor, while good, was a bit mundane by comparison to the outstanding Eisenhorn trilogy (i certainly did), but now i get the impression it was more of a build-up, paving the way for this. While Ravenor might have seemed a bit too much like a typical "dayin the life of", where there is seemingly no great galaxy-threatening plot or enemy to face, Ravenor Returned is a true return to form. Dan Abnett shows off his great talent for evoking imagery & his books really do read like a set of images, never going overboard on the description, but using enough to create the right atmosphere. Ravenor Returned highlights the advantages of his slightly changed system from Eisenhorn: instead of focusing almost exclusively on one individual, changing to the perspectives of others allows him to develop them much more as characters on their own. Also, seeing things that the lead character doesn't can really build a sense of foreboding, that something is building to climax (a particularly strong themein this book). Several threads left over from Ravenor are expanded here (although not all neatly tied up by any means). Ravenor Returned is just as much of a masterpiece as Abnett's other works, & I strongly recommend it to...well, anyone with the slightest grain of tastein fiction really! But especially fans of Eisenhorn, even if u didn't feel quite so engrossedin the first Ravenor. Trust me, this one increases the pace dramatically & adds a lot of new & exciting ideas/concepts, the type that are the trademark of the 40k universe. If u like anything remotely fictional & futuristic, read this. Well, read the other 4 before it, then read this!
