The Many (Short) Lives of the Cadian Shock Troops

Presented as a series of vignettes, this tells the story of the Fall of Cadia from the perspective of a range of characters - new and old, high and low. If you are asking "what's the Fall of Cadia?", well, this might not be for you...

Consider this a narrative, ground level view of the narrative changes Games Workshop made to the 40k universe in 2017, with the last supplements to 7th edition and the beginning of 8th edition. If you are interested in the story of the 40k universe, this sort of bridges that gap.

But if you just like stories of chainswords and hordes of cultists and the smell of prometheum in the morning, this book is just dozens of individual and connected combat vignettes, from the perspective of Cadians, Mordians, Drookians, Chaos Marines, a very angry Space Wolf scout, and more. A diverting and excellently narrated book, perfect for when you are gluing and painting. If you aren't high on liquid cement and periodically yelling "Cadia Stands", you probably won't enjoy this...

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The best book ever

This book was so good that it inspired me to buy a army of Astra Militarum Cadin shock troops Cadia stands!!!!

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Dissapointing

A disjointed mess that fails to keep track of it's characters. It attempts to follow the dog soldiers of Cadia during it's fall but fails to really make you care about any of them save, maybe, Gruber (Kruber?). Forgets the names of ships or even what weapons characters have in hand every other paragraph.

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I did not enjoy this book!

I am a huge 40k fan and LOVE the guard. I play cadians and love books like Gaunt's Ghosts but this book was not for me.
I was looking forward to reading about the epic fall of Cadia. Instead I got forgettable charkters thrown into a myriad of "battles" that felt more like skirmishes and then often never seen again. Here and there a named Charkter would turn up for a page to be checked off the list. It was both boring and frustraiting, like i missed the fight and just saw the aftermath.
Allso Cadians are some of the best guard ever but felt rather avrage here. Its frustrating because there are the ingredients of a great storry here but in the end i didnt get invested when there was no main story just overwealming destruction that you often don't even get to see. skip this one.

addition-

This book made me so mad I had to go back and edit this post to add a few lines. this book is not only grabage, it's wrong. Pask turns up in his baneblade. Pask wasn't on Cadia when it fell and he drives a Leemam Russ.
It takes work to make me so mad that I come back to write more. nope skip this

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Way to busy. lots of details but not much story.

It's like the author tried to squeeze a big story in a little book. don't waste your time on this one.

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An epic telling Cadia's final stand

Loved it and the people who struggled for their home and their families and people

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Worth it

I enjoyed it but it leaves a lot of loose ends. The story jumps around a lot, like after you get to kind of know a character it either doesn't get back to them or you learn very little more of them/what happened to them. I get that it's supposed to be chaotic, but that doesn't make the most compelling story. I wish it had given more time to really exploring a few characters. Without giving too much away here, because it was worth it.

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Great narration, terrible story

This book had some terrible pacing and huge gaps in the story. If you haven't read the Gathering Storm books, you will miss most of the "story" of the book. The whole thing is like someone reading all of the side excerpts of the codex that have come out and feel just about as connected. Multiple POV characters are seen just once and then never mentioned again, again like someone is reading related excerpts, not a story. The end is mostly the grimderp that people criticize black library stories for. They don't pass around the idiot stick. They all have one all the time.

Imperial Guards

Good listen. Standard imperial guard battles and good story of the battle for Cadia. Solid.

Disjointed,

This was my first delve into the black library 40k Universe. I left feeling just meh. Most of the negative reviews have already nailed this story. I support the claims I read. Benedict was a good character and I thought the book had a solid start but Im feeling like the world building was sparse I gained no insight into Cadia. Confusing characters would be killed seconds after introduction. Creed storyline was ambiguous. Minka has Zero depth. Irritating story outline enough to make me thirsty. So disjointed it reads like a full novel with 65% of the chapters missing. narration was rather good and the story was told.