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The Martyr's Tomb

Dawn of Fire: Warhammer 40,000, Book 6

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The Martyr's Tomb

By: Marc Collins
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Dawn of Fire Book 6

The zealous Black Templars and the Order of Our Martyred Lady hold a shrine world against the Death Guard – a guttering light in the darkness.

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Marc Collins shows us how desperate the fight can get in the swirl of the Indomitus Crusade. Every world defended is worthy of celebration, no matter the cost.

THE STORY

The Indomitus Crusade burns across the stars, while new threats emerge to challenge the Imperium's resurgence.

As the Kingdom of Iron is secured and the Primarch Reborn's thoughts turn to future salients, the Arch-enemy strikes back against the Indomitus Crusade's forces. The shrine worlds of the Golden Chain are all but broken, and only Velua remains defiant. Canoness Irinya of the Order of Our Martyred Lady and Champion Gaheris of the Black Templars hold the line, fighting against the plague-ridden cultists reducing the planet to anarchy.

While the war rages on and the true enemy makes itself known, the fate of Velua and the wider crusade may rest upon the shoulders of another of the Imperial Regent's agents: the disgraced Rogue Trader Katla Helvintr. Heroes rise and worlds fall, and only the light of faith will guide the warriors of the Imperium to their destiny.

Written by Marc Collins. Written by Marc Collins. Read by John Banks. Running time is 14 hours and 11 minutes (approx).

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Plot develops as the galaxy shifts to the Attilan Gate, and as a Battle Sister reaches sainthood.

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it's ok but too much John Banks lately

He's a good voice actor but I'm personally getting John Banks fatigue. Whoever's in charge of picking VAs needs to change it up a bit. If not for this series then for others. Too many of the new books are read by John Banks. Anyway, book is just ok.

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Hard to get into

The writing and character development was as good as always and the story wasnt bad. Just didn’t capture my interest like other 40k books have. I have a long drive into work and listen a LOT. This book just didnt hold my interest and i found my self listening to others after 20mins of this one.

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I enjoyed it

In general I liked this. The voice actor does a great job. The story is in between “just under good and maybe just over it for others.” Not a fan of having a golden warrior dying in the book again. Also it would be nice to see other enemies. I’m very tired of the plague marines/ultra marines in general. Give me an Imotekh the Stormlord book or someone else in these arks.

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Slow Starter

It’s a slow start. But once you get into it, it’s an amazing story. By the end you don’t want to stop listening

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Not memorable or engaging

I don't know what it was in particular, but I literally just finished and I couldn't really tell you what this was about. it's just not that engaging or interesting, which is a shame for the series. there's a few neat moments and the narration is good quality,but overall an unimportant and forgettable addition to the DoF line

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least so far

definitely the poorest installment in the series so far. story was not engaging. a lot of the characters i want to hear about don't get mentioned. only bright side was seeing the death guard in action.

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slow burn that ends in a conflagration. in a good way

it started off kinda slow, with just progress of the current wars in this book.
but then toward the last quarter of the book it started to ramp up. it made the previous 3/4 worth it 👍
iøthe nurgle descriptions were pleasant as always 👌

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I loved it.

The Dawn of Fire series is never really terrible, but some books are definitely better than others. This one was definitely one of the better ones. I enjoyed the battle between two contrasting faiths. I enjoyed the desperate last Stands. My only complaint is that I was super duper excited when I found out that my absolute favorite regiment was in this and they didn't really do anything from their point of view. I've been keeping up with this series since it's important to the over all lore and this one was a very pleasant surprise.

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Very exciting, action packed addition.

I loved this book, I'm not typically a fan of "bolter porn" but while the book is crammed full of action it maintained a good pace and individual focus without being too bogged down in descriptions of troop movements. I love anything that gives solid focus on the Black Templars and Chaos. The weaving of the series plot into the story was done without sacrificing the narrative which I highly value. Lore is good, but I'm reading a novel to hear a good story first and foremost. Not exposition.

My ownly complaint but one typical of most 40k novels is that it can be difficult to keep the transitions between subplots and characters clear. Normally I would look back in the book to keep track of which character is who but that's not feasible with an audio book.

Not at unique to this one though. BL authors love to jump back and forth with each chapter despite there sometimes being little to know chronological order or link between subplots.

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