Horus Rising

Truly Amazing!

Horus Rising was spectacular. I have listened to a few Black Libary audio CDs and most have disappointed me. Mainly due to their length, most are only an hour or so long. Horus Rising is over 12 hours long and they are 12 truly amazing hours of splendid back story. This story achieved to paint true depth and colour onto so many key events and characters that I was only basically aware of before. The best scene for me was the diplomatic dialogue that occurred between Horus and his counterpart. So wonderfully well written and the voice acting was splendid in its execution.

19 of 21 people found this review helpful

A great combination

Dan Abnett is possible the best living Sci-Fi author. Toby Long is one of the best Narrators particularly of Gothic fantasy. The two of them together are fantastic.

This story makes a great kick off to the Horus Hearsay, but possibly not the best start to Warhammer 40k fiction as a whole.

22 of 26 people found this review helpful

Great start to a massive storyline

Here you are introduced into the world of warhammer 40k at the beginnings of the Horus heresy. It is a great book as a stand-alone piece even if you don’t like warhammer it is a good sci-if book. The second book in this series builds up momentum very nicely as it thickens the plot

8 of 9 people found this review helpful

Loved it

The book is amazing and it deserves full stars for suck a good read , I recommend it

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

excellent.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, casts a completely different side to the warmaster and his legion.

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Warhammer 40k starts here

If you could sum up Horus Rising in three words, what would they be?

Funny, knowing, bloody

What did you like best about this story?

This is the Imperium of Man at it's brightest everything it was meant to be just at the point where it all starts to go wrong

Have you listened to any of Toby Longworth’s other performances? How does this one compare?

I've listened to a few of Tobys performances this is one of my favourites there's a lt of sly humour in Dan Abnetts writing that Toby gives brings out he also gives a different weight to each characters lines so you wouldn' t mistake the main characters for each other

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

A small joke made by the books protagonist to those among his peers that had previously intimidated him was I thought an excellent way of showing his growing comfort amongst them

Any additional comments?

This is the place to start with Warhammer 40k arguably it's best author takes on the Imperium just as it's golden age is about to end. It's a smart, funny, visceral and violent tale but if you've any interest in the Warhammer universe I'd start here.

6 of 7 people found this review helpful

Awesome start to the Horus Heresy

I’ve listened to a number of Audio books now, this one is awesome and such a good start to the epic that is The Horus Heresy.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Really enjoyed it!

Only recently started the black library, this is my second book, and I’m really enjoying it so far! Toby does a great job with narration!

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Awesomeness

Really good story engaging and made me love the Luna wolves and feel sad at the knowledge of what is to become of their honour and sorry for Logan and Hourus.

Would really recommend very very good did not expect it to be that good. P.

5 of 6 people found this review helpful

Enthralling, mesmerising, emmense, wonderful

A wonderfully engaging read, excitement, action, political shenanigans. An emersive plot that hooks you in. Whether a fan of 40k or not this is a sci-fi blockbuster that stands head and shoulders above its contemporaries

1 of 1 people found this review helpful