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First Half Was Meh, Ending Was Awesome

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-24-24

this book was a real slog until it got closer to the final act and then things got great. some awesome action and great story events and some ties to older White Scars books. also the narration was pretty fantastic, really put emotion into the voices.

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Started Slow but Got Really Good!

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 08-08-24

For the first few chapters I really wasn't into this story and was wishing for it to be over already, but once it was past the first battle, things started to slowly grab my interest. By the end I felt very attached to the characters and loved their development, especially as it was unexpected for Necron characters. The mystery aspect of the story kept me very interested as well and the reveals felt rewarding.
Overall I'm happy there's a second one I can jump right into next!

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Most Stories are Boring

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3 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 07-03-24

It's another book full of short stories and it feels like filler. Iron Corpses, Long Night, and maybe Eagle's Talon are good ones but they're all easily available separately and the rest of the stories feel very skippable and unengaging.

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Best Ork Story So Far

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-30-24

I don't think you could have made a more perfect Ork story, but that's what I thought about Brutal Kunnin when I read that, so I can only imagine Mike Brooks' next Ork book will prove me wrong again. Also I have to say this narrator was the best Ork narrator I've heard. I swear he hardly ever reused a voice for any character and they were all extremely compelling voices. That guy has talent!

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Great Necromunda Story

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-08-24

Overall it was pretty great, has some descriptions that really made me squirm and the author did a great job at making me feel like I was in the underhive. I will warn you that if you have any sort of bug or rat phobia you may not want to give this one a listen.

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Another Great Ghosts Story

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 01-11-24

Starts off a little slow but still interesting, and then really kicks off with the action! Has some cool information about Gaunt's past as well.

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Not as Good as the First, but Not Bad

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 07-28-23

The previous book had my full attention the whole way through. This one had some really great scenes but there's a couple hours' worth of this book that was just uninteresting dialogue and details that I think could have been dropped and the story would still make sense. I'm usually a big fan of the little details in 40k but these felt bland sometimes. Despite that, parts of the book were pretty cool and exciting, especially the end.

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Pretty Good

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 06-27-23

Overall the story was cool and there were interesting political aspects explored that were meaningful and not just a throw away thing for a one off story. Lots of old lore was dredged up and cool references were made.

I think the only thing I wasn't a fan of was it could be really over the top *all* the time. I know it's an audio drama but it felt like every scene was all out emotion and I kept thinking "calm down man you're just talking". I know Warhammer is often over the top in a good way but some scenes felt more like the actor showing off their range than how the character should really sound, but the writing may have lent itself to that so it's not all their fault.

Still, cool audio drama and I'd recommend it, it just wasn't perfect.

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One of the Best 40k Books

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 06-19-23

This was one of the best Black Library books I have read. Great performance by the narrator as well.

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Subpar for a Black Library Book

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2 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
Story
2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-04-23

While there is some cool battles, this book did not feel like it was written by one of the better Black Library authors. It was like someone trying to mimic them and failing. A key thing in Warhammer is going a bit over the top, but still walking the line of believable, and this author just goes way over that line at time. There's a battlefield at one point described as a carpet of space marine dead 50 bodies deep, and if you think about this massive area being 50 bodies deep, that's like more space marines than what participated in the entire battle for Cadia. Maybe I'm just overthinking the writing but I'm used to other Black Library books doing okay with details like that, and only really messing up when describing how guns work, but this one does poorly.

On top of that, I'm glad I read the Gathering Storm books before this or I'd be lost with all of the vague references to them. The book constantly nods to events that happen in them and if you hadn't read them yet, you'd think it was foreshadowing to something later in the book but they're never brought up again. Other Black Library books do nods like this, but they're very subtle and don't play as big of a part in the story as these do without going into detail about the events.

The narrator had an okay performance aside from pronoucning things incorrectly at times.

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