Narrator is great, book is not

So join a miscellaneous crew you don't and won't care about on a ship that is sailing for a place so awful they forgot to mention it, so they can do an important thing that you will never know, all while Cato Sicarius strokes his beard. But don't worry friends Cato and crew spend five years lost doing awesome things in the warp...which this book won't tell us either. Well fast forward to where hunger strikes, bafflingly bad decisions, vigorous beard stroking, and seminaked old men doing their best ju-on impressions are all the rage. Or don't, save that credit and get a good book like Eisenhorn.

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Slow start, but a great listen!

Everything about this story was very high quality. Easy to follow and a pleasure to listen through.

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Shallow

Having just read Servants of the Throne, Eisenhorn, and Dark Imperium I was looking forward to getting some great insights into the Ultramarines post primarch return. Unfortunately this book mainly centers around actions scenes, gore, and people making bad decisions with no explanation behind it.
If you like action and gore while never exploring plot or the setting deeply; this book could be for you. If you are looking for atmosphere beyond descriptions of blood and bodies, look elsewhere.

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such a great story

the first part of it gave a great horror story an turned to a story of fantasy an knighthood which reminded me of an old 90s movie calles the 13th warrior that had Antonio Banderas but with a great plot twist kinda wish they explore more about the bulkey knighted villain but I think it would had taken more of thw mystery from it but great listen

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Well done, enjoyed the whole book!

Well done, it's not an over the top WAR! WAR! WAR! BATTLE! BATTLE! BATTLE! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! kinda book. Though of course there is still battles and fighting(especially in the beginning where it's basically a horror movie...book...audiobook, whatever! You know what I mean) it wouldn't be 40k if there wasn't fighting but it's more of a mystery novel compared to other 40k books. This is my first novel with the main being Cato Sicarius and it didn't really disappoint except in that it didn't show me why Cato is such a divisive character. I keep hearing that Cato is arrogant, OP, never loses, and always makes the best choices no matter what so I expected over the top heroics and shenanigans but he was laid back for the whole book. Now the cons and there's just a few. One being certain plot points aren't followed to resolution. Basically I want to know what happened to certain characters but the book never addresses this and I don't think there will be a follow up following these plot points. The second con is there's always a bigger fish(enemy) after they deal with the first fish. It gets kinda old when there's a bigger fish after the bigger fish after the bigger fish but just when I'm about to get annoyed about it the book address the problem and it's done. And finally there's a certain person that always seems to be there to save the day but the book also addresses this by the end as well so all is good and this novel was well done. I enjoyed to the end and even wanted more so if you want a break from all the intense battles and dismay this novel would be a good in between book to listen to. Enjoy!

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First ever low review of a 40k book

I was lost the entire time. I also felt that there was a few times that the story repeated itself. There was something off on the way this was written.

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not exciting like the other warhammer books

I was disappoint...waste of money. no real big battle going on. no important people standing up and taking charge. I was s redbud on this.. I h
have bought 15 of warhammer books and this is the only on me I didn't fall in love with

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The Emperor Protects

Richard Reed brings this thing to life. I couldn't bring myself to stop listening.

Non stop action,

Great story with non stop action. The narrator did a fantastic job and really brought the story to life.

good listen

Good read with a variety of storylines cool characters and lots of Passion from the narrator