
Priests of Mars
Forge of Mars: Warhammer 40,000, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Joe Jameson
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By:
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Graham McNeill
Book one in the Forges of Mars series.
An Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator fleet ventures beyond the borders of the Imperium in pursuit of arcane technology. Who knows what perils may lie outside the dominion of mankind?
Listen to it because: it's a novel like nothing else from Black Library. Graham McNeill crafts a tale that only he could tell, beginning a mind-bending saga of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Chaos and more besides.
The story: legend tells of a foolhardy expedition, led by the radical Magos Telok, that ventured out into the unknown space beyond the Halo Worlds in search of the 'Breath of the Gods' - an arcane device with the power to unmake and reshape the very stars themselves. Thousands of years later, the ambitious Lexell Kotov musters his Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator fleet and sets out to follow in mad old Telok's footsteps. With the might of the Imperial Guard and the Space Marines to augment his own forces, he searches for the hidden clues that will lead him to greatest power that the galaxy has ever known. But who knows what ancient perils may yet lie outside the Imperium and the dominion of mankind?
Written by Graham McNeill. Narrated by Joe Jameson.
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if you just past the reader voice for the 1st hour
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Overall the story is good. However, I do have a complaint with just how many different stories and characters there are at a given moment. I think one chapter alone ended up cycling through like 6 different POVs. It’s not really that hard to keep track of them, I just hate being drip fed some of the ones I’m more interested in.
Also really enjoy how this one expands of some more detailed Mechanicus stuff, as well as starting to scratch the horror that is Servitors.
Would recommend!
Good story with some minor production issues
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Tekboys!
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Good, but errors in recording
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The narrator isn't bad. The guy who did the original narration of Avenging Son was bad (so bad they had to replace him). But here, Joe Jameson does a good, if perhaps a little amateurish job. There are a few editing issues, like the same line repeated twice in a row, a microphone issue, and one line was cut off. As for character voices, I didn't really care for the Space Marine voices, which sounded like dumb cartoon characters. Fortunately this isn't a Space Marine book so there isn't a ton of their dialog.
On the positive note, I was very impressed with how well the narrator does female voices, I even had to rewind a couple times to make sure it wasn't another person. He has a great range of voices for all the characters and I would enjoy another book by him. Just fix the editing please!
On a side note, I highly recommend the short story "Ancient History" from the 40K book "Let the Galaxy Burn". It's a bit older, but its very similar to Priests of Mars and it offers another view of working inside the bowels of a 40K ship, especially its ancient secrets.
Awesome story, nice break from HH series
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How all parties are disgraced I'm some way
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Essential Mechanicus Novel
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I absolutely loved this book. It is rare for Warhammer 40k books to focus more on the characters than fighting, but that is what this book does. It excels at making all of the characters on this voyage feel like real people in a strange and terrifying environment. If you find it slow in the beginning, push through it. It picks up speed at the halfway mark when the voyage truly begins.
The end was so exciting that I am buying the rest of the series after I finish this review.
A good start to an epic series!
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Bah, maybe it's just me, but a novice space marine shouldn't be easily defeating a combat magos in single combat. And maybe I misunderstood it, but a Black Templar Ecclesiarch feeling doubt and a loss of purpose (if even for a moment) while fighting aliens seems off.
But what do I know? This guy writes for Black Library and I'm just some dude that paints minis!
It seemed a little off.
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good stuff
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