Brothers Of The Snake, Worth It? (WH40K)

[Aaron]

Get it on Amazon. I've ordered such "accessory" books before and have had a lot of trouble getting them from Borders or Barnes and Noble, at least in a timely manner. I can only assume that Chapters and Coles use the same distribution method which will make it difficult and time consuming for you.
If you know someone who works at one of those stores, you might convince them to order it to store stock, but it will still take a while, and I doubt they would take the risk for a relatively obscure property. By the time the order gets to the right people, the book might be out of print--Black Library is notorious for this, especially in the US.

Unfortunately the local bookstore won't stock BL products, thanks to it being a "niche market". I tried to get them to bring them in and that was the response I got on all three occasions.

As for the BL paperback novels, you can often get them at major book retailers in the US a week or two before they are actually released, even before they show up at the local GW, because they are not actually considered "laydowns". For example, Scourge of the Heretic and Hammer of Daemons are both available at my local Borders right now.

Unfortunately, I'm in the ass end of nowhere and various issues limit me going into Ottawa. I will go up to Pembroke (45 mins west) for stuff like this though. I can always order them off the net but I prefer not to use my credit card unless there's an emergency.

I have read the Cain books (have all five) and they are by far my favorite WH40K novels. One of the reasons I can't get into the Ghosts series is because I keep comparing Gaunt to Cain.

[Jaevric]

I know it's stupid, but one of my favorite parts of the Brotherhood of the Snake series was Priad being shocked and disturbed by the sight of the Librarian running around in combat with his helmet off.

I have to appreciate a Chapter of Space Marines who realize they wear helmets for a reason.

[Lonestar]

You have read the Ciaphas Cain novels, right?

He better have! I didn't just send them to some random Canadian!

[Kuja]

The most recent WHF book I read was Guardians of Ulthuan, which I had a little trouble getting into as I am not a fan of elves.

Neither am I but I thought both Guardians of the Forest and Defenders were superb books. I know a lot of people like to slam Graham McNeil, but his books are pretty solid for me. That and his scenes with Malekith are fucking badass incarnate.

"WE DEPART FOR ULTHUAN. NOW."

[Bob the Gunslinger]

I'm reading Guardians of the Forest now (well, restarting it) and still loving the Bretonnian characters, but not the elves. But I'll give it a chance.

Also, in GoU, I like that Malekith's sword was weakening the chaos wizard's armor just by being in the same room with it. It's subtle touches like this that make the over-the-topness of the battle scenes so much fun.

[The Yosemite Bear]

reminds me too much of SPARTAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

[Kuja]

Bob, I just finished Oathbreaker a couple days ago, and it's a fair book. Not great, not crap, but fair. I thought it had an overlarge character list for the story it was supposed to be telling, and there was a whole lot going on in that book, but in the end it was a moderately decent read.