Review: Dan Abnett's Titanicus

So I've just completed Titanicus. First I'd like to preface this by stating that Dan Abnett is, without a doubt, the best of the black library writers I've so far come across (granted none of them are literary geniuses or anything). That being said, Titanicus did not meet my expectations, low as they were. The title is very misleading, I feel.
Titans are one of those aspects of the 40k universe that has never REALLY held my interest, and the reason for that is the complete lack of interesting and in depth story behind them. I see myself as fairly fluff- savvy when it comes to 40k, but pretty much all the backstory I've read on titans is that they are AWESOME, literally.
I picked up Titanicus hoping to flesh them out, perhaps explaining WHY they are awesome, besides that they are really big.
I was disappointed, and there are three reasons for this.
The first reason is that the actual titan warfare (and I'm including all the support elements of titans in this) didn't actually occur until the 2nd third of the book, and then only took up like a quarter of those remaining 2/3rds. Honestly, the book should have been called "Mechanicus".
The second reason is, to a lesser extent, the same as the reason I abhorred Goto's eldar book. I'm reading the book, learning what Titan combat is like, and then in the last few chapters of the book, one of the characters comes out and plainly states that most Titan combat is nothing like what is being portrayed in the book. I mean.. what the hell?! On the plus side, and this is why the book was saved from the utter crapness that was Goto's book, The book, as previously stated, wasn't really about Titans anyway, and in addition, it's stated that though Titan combat is no longer as it is portrayed in the book, it is reminiscient of the titan combat of the Heresy.
Now I, as an accomplished reader, have blanket style issues with pretty much all of the BL writers. They all fall into the same categories, and if I must be honest, are much more annoying in the 40k world than in fantasy. I'll break these into some generic categories:
1. Fight scenes. Fight scenes do not translate into literature. Don't give me a blow by blow, it doesn't translate.
2. Jargon. I know you're writing towards a target audience, but come on. Who the heck knows what a cataphractii is? It would take about 2 seconds to explain that it's the mechanicus' artillery teams, but no. It makes it impossible for someone not in the know to actually read.
3. Heroics vs Background. Taking into account #2, obviously the book is being written for solely warhammer fanboys, why must writers map out giant glaring plot holes by having their characters do things so over the top amazing as a matter of course? The easiest example is any story with marines. Now I honestly don't mind when a squad of marines takes out and army of guardsmen all on their own. Marines are tough, like super hero tough. It's when a squad of marines, without flinching, takes out a few squads of chaos marines. I mean, storywise, chaos marines have been around for 10000 years! They shouldn't be easy to beat.
Now, I list Dan Abnett as my favorite BL author because he normally does not do such things. In his Ghosts books, the death toll is excessive, and the climax of one of them was taking out a single traitor marine.
The Titan combat broke all of them, most flippantly #3. They describe the traitor titans as morons that are easy to kill... yet while the Imperium still makes Titans, almost all of the chaos ones are the same ones that sided with Horus 10000 years ago. How then can the possibly be easy to kill off?
Now, past the negative stuff, Titanicus did have some good story in it. The very human heroes in the story were great and very descriptive of life in the 41st millenium. In addition, I feel I've learned a LOT about the workings of members of the mechanicum. They are very weird. Also learning the support systems of titans was interesting.
Overall, I'll give it a rating of "meh".