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Dark Harvest

Warhammer Horror

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Dark Harvest

By: Josh Reynolds
Narrated by: Jake Urry
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A Warhammer Horror audiobook

A disgraced warrior-priest who prowls the Greywater Fastness is forced to confront his past when a message from an old friend sends him on a perilous quest. In an isolated village full of untrusting souls, his darkest secrets threaten to come to light.

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Explore a corner of the Mortal Realms full of dangerous characters and dark secrets in a tale by Josh Reynolds, master of the sinister.

The Story:

Harran Blackwood was a Warrior-Priest of ruthless virtue. Now he's a man with a scorched reputation, prowling the back alleys of Greywater Fastness, content to fight the petty wars of racketeers for survival. But when a desperate message arrives from an old friend, Blackwood is forced to confront a past he thought long buried.

Summoned to the isolated village of Wald, Blackwood sets off on a perilous trek to ensure the sins of his former life remain forgotten. He soon discovers that Wald is a hostile, secretive place with sins of its own. Deep in the murky marshes, where the cruel chants of village folk echo and the stink of death hovers low, Blackwood must channel his bitterness and rage to defy the ancient darkness that now hunts him before he is devoured, body and soul.

©2019 Games Workshop Limited (P)2019 Games Workshop Limited Genre Fiction Horror Psychological Scary Warrior Village
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I absolutely loved this audio book. The narrator demonstrated the personalities of the characters wonderfully, the book itself kept me captivated throughout and the character representation in the book was brill. I thoroughly recommend this audio book!

Absolutely fantastic Audio book!

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As someone with only a very basic knowledge of Age of Sigmar lore, the book was fairly easy to follow, and did a decent job carving out its own section of the world.

I feel the story falls short of being a horror however - more of a dark thriller with supernatural elements. The main issue is the main character - he's just too competent. A stereotypical hard-bitten warrior, he's able to outfight most of the people and creature's that attack him without any real challenge, completely removing any tension of him being in mortal danger and reducing what should be terrifying monster encounters to 'oh great, another one' moments.

While the underlying plot is engaging enough, it does meander and drag in places, and the various mid-chapter flashbacks are jarring as they start and end without warning.

The worst part of the book by far is the narrator - his idea of creating a moody horror atmosphere is to finish every line with a gritty exhalation. Every. Single. Line. Its ridiculous and very distracting initially. He also has almost no voice range for the characters - even most of the women sound like the same grumpy middle-aged men, and it can get difficult to tell whos who in conversation as a result.

Overall, a mildly interesting foray into a dark new part of the fantasy world. If you're interested in the idea of fallen Sigmarite priests, seedy backwater towns, malicious Sylvaneth, or Kurnoth, this might be of interest to you.

I'd consider listening to a sequel if it was on sale and had the story tightened up a bit, and preferably a different narrator.

A Decent Thriller

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Really enjoyed it, especially the narrator Jake Urry, missing a trick not having him on more books. Interesting story, as I haven't really touched on warhammer since I was a kid, found myself a little lost. But enjoyed it nonetheless.

Enjoyable

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This work plays off of the concept of a rural secluded village that is somewhat cut-off from civilization, and has odd and eerie customs. This concept is used well. I often kept going further in the book, or wishing I had extra time because it introduced gripping questions that I felt would be answered soon. The is a feeling of dread in the book that follows the protagonist and one is left uncertain about where and how this dread would manifest. The atmosphere is wet and rotten, but not in any real supernatural sense, but a real grimy filth that accumulates just from being somewhere waterlogged and surrounded by foliage.
It's an enjoyable work, but I recommend listening to it at (x1.25) speed as I feel the narrator takes a little more time than needed to pronounce everything. However, that could just be my own impatience. Their slow cadence did add more personality to the story.

Creepy rural customs

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An atmospheric if just a little uninspired and clichéd story. Side characters are a quite one dimensional and the writer quite often ends up describing unimportant details about characters or the surrounding scenery.

Mediocre horror

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