Outstanding, loved it.

What a great book/performance, Believe it or not this is my first Black Library audible book that's narrated by a Woman, Helen Keely does a magnificent job doing this and shes worlds apart from the bad narration by Martyn Ellis in The Thousand Sons, a book so bad i had to return it.

I immediately thought this sounded like the Eisenhorn novels in its narration, And was confused at first but I haven't read the Ravenor series.

When I heard the last sentence i spat my coffee over my work laptop.

Just purchased book 2, but reading the Ravenor Series first.

Abnett, you sly dog, keep it up fella .

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outstanding

I actually struggled the first time I read this and the precursor, pariah in hardback - but on audible, I ate both up and found the performance really engaging.

built the world in its acting as much as Dan abnetts words, and I can't wait for the next one

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A great story but the vocals failed

Everything in this book is awesome it’s just the narrators male voices that massively lets it down even tho the females voices are good the majority of characters talking around the main character are men and the narrator simply doesn’t have the vocals to do their voices justice. There is so many characters coming back for a show in this story and you can’t recognize their voices threw her voice. So if you’ve read threw the whole eisenhorn and ravenor series read by Toby longworth and then come to this book you will be massively disappointed by the voices the female narrator is simply unable to do male voices properly.

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Narrator is good but

she has a very limited set of voices.
story is overall good, altho i could see the twist coming from chapter 1.

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Worth getting used to the new reader.

Tough to get used to Eisenhorn and Ravenor not being voices by Toby, and the new reader doesn't have quite as many convincing voices to use but still a solid performance and perhaps most intriguing story so far in the Eisenhorn series.

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awsome

amazing. probably my favourite dan Annette novel so far. voice actor was brilliant to but could maybe use another actor for the male voices as they all started sounding the same towards the end but I suppose they all do when there's lots of characters

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New life in the Inquisiton

🗡🗡🗡🗡 I listened to this one, and it was a perfect Audible choice (very much worth my token of the month), the narration was outstanding and the narrator was able to weave a great story without bringing me out of the moment with a weird accent. The story follows on from the Eisenhorn and Ravenor novels, and in some ways continues those storylines, and I think it would be difficult to pick up on all the nuance without reading at least one of these titles, however, after saying all this Pariah is very much its own story - following our hero, Alizebeth Bequin....junior. The novel is very adept at world building, really layering a sinister vibe onto the already dark 40k universe. We are brought into the city of Queen Mab, a decadent and dilapidated former capital, with a decaying sense of grandeur. Alizebeth is a trainee in the Maison Deus (forgive the spelling as this was Audible), a scholam for psychic blanks and prospective members of the Inquistion... she is skilled in combat, subterfuge and assuming the identity of others. Her life is sent into disarray when the school is attacked and the students scattered to the city, Bequin herself fleeing after battling telekinetic fake nuns and personifications of the Warp. The story then really gets going as Bequin tries to find her way in the cold, following a trail of clues to make sense of her life and enduring trials that eventually leads her to Gregor Eisenhorn and Gideon Ravenor. Revelations are had in abundance and the first novel really sets the scene for the assumed trilogy. The book teases at big reveals that will shake the Imperium,  notably the Yellow King and the winged Angel. Fantastic book with a good deal of set-up for the future - 🗡🗡🗡🗡 4 blades. #blacklibrary #warhammer40k #pariah #bookreview #audible

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Amazing book for people who know Eisenhorn/Ravenor

Start of book: I know that name ... but ... ?
Two thirds of the way through: Ah, yes, I know them too ... and them ... cool.
Very last sentence of the book: ---- you Dan! ---- you and the horse you rode in on!

Me: 5 days until my next credit so I can buy the 2nd part. £21 for 3 more credits? Done. Next book ... download faster ...

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Dan has smashed it again

Wonderfully descriptive and plenty grimdark, albeit slower paced than previous works. Great narration by Helen.

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Great return of some old favourites

It was a big slow to start, but as ever Dan Abnett has written another fantastic novel that brings back some old favourite characters. Highly recommended.

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