Darksiders: The Abomination Vault: A Novel

Ari Marmell

Jul 2012 · Sold by Random House Worlds

About this ebook

Ride with the Horsemen of the Apocalypse as they seek to unearth a plot that could plunge all of Creation into chaos!
 
Ages before the events of Darksiders and Darksiders II, two of the feared Horsemen—Death and War—are tasked with stopping a group of renegades from locating the Abomination Vault: a hoard containing weapons of ultimate power and malice, capable of bringing an end to the uneasy truce between Heaven and Hell . . . but only by unleashing total destruction.
 
Created in close collaboration with the Darksiders II teams at Vigil and THQ, Darksiders: The Abomination Vault gives an exciting look at the history and world of the Horsemen, shining a new light on the unbreakable bond between War and Death.

Ratings and reviews

Great story, exellent characters that you instantly accept and begin to like, exellent dialogue that actually got me to laugh out loud a couple times. I really enjoyed this book wish it were part of a longer series. My only criticism is the scenic descriptive bits get me a bit lost and sometimes I find myself skimming because I'm not grasping what he's telling me but, it doesn't affect the book really in any way your still able to get a good idea of where and what the area looks like.

The authors power of description is amazing. However it is sometimes at the expense of the story. It seemed as if the last third of the book is when things started to gel. I almost gave up on it as it was a strain to read at first. Definitely not my kind of book even though I did finish it. I won't read another from this author even though he is a great wordsmith.

Fans of the Darksiders games will enjoy this adventure that fills in a lot of the back story between the riders, War and Death. The other two Horsemen, Stryfe and Fury are present but only in brief cameos. Although the book features War this is definitely Death's story. Any fan if the games should enjoy this book, it's a welcome companion to the Darksiders mythology.

About the author

Ari Marmell is the author of The Conqueror’s Shadow and The Warlord’s Legacy. He has published a fair amount of shared-world fiction, including several short stories and Agents of Artifice, a Magic: The Gathering novel. Marmell lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, George, and two cats.