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Plague War

Dark Imperium: Warhammer 40,000, Book 2

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Audiobook two of the Dark Imperium trilogy.

As the Plague Wars rage on, the Emperor's will manifests in Ultramar through miracles that confound the primarch Roboute Guilliman, even as he must rely on them when he faces his traitorous brother, Mortarion.

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The battle between faith and science lies at the heart of Warhammer 40,000. Guy Haley explores it here as never before, through the eyes of Roboute Guilliman - the ultimate believer in rationality and the Imperial Truth.

The story

In the void and upon the worlds of Greater Ultramar, the battle for the Imperium continues.

Intent on rebuilding his home realm and using it as a base to reconstruct the ravaged stellar empire of mankind, the returned primarch, Roboute Guilliman, proceeds with his war to drive Mortarion and his Death Guard Traitor Legion from the domain of the Ultramarines.

But when Guilliman brings his brother to battle upon the diseased plains of Parmenio, the intervention of a greater power in their fraternal struggle threatens to upend the Imperial Regent’s understanding of the galaxy, and his place within it.

Primarchs and ideologies clash in this thrilling second part of the Dark Imperium trilogy.

Written by Guy Haley. Narrated by John Banks.

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Amazing written and performed. A good middle point in the Dark Imperium saga. A must read for anyone who cares about the current Warhammer timeline.

A must read!

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Well written and Well read, doo a Diddy Diddy doo Diddy doo, she looks good..... she looks Great

epic scale

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I have listened to this book probably 20 times and it gets even better the whole series is wonderful!

I really love this book!

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an easy book to get into and stay with to the end. every chapter has a lot of story to keep you engaged and intrested. the first book of the series is a nice story for shure, but this follow up is building onto the story in a great way and is a blast to listen to. great preformance by the narrator also!

if you like 40k then you like this book

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The middle part of a trilogy can be a bit tricky. But Haley manages in the central episode of his trilogy to tell the ongoing stories of Nurgle's invasion of Ultramar and the tensions caused within the Imperium by the return of Guilliman: while also providing enough immediate stakes for the book to be a tale that works on its own. The opening chapters do suffer a little from voluminous exposition, but the pace picks up after that, and I like Haley's style of writing, which paints the vivid pictures the setting calls for.

I was indifferent to Bank's narration the first time I encountered it, but I have to admit he's grown on me. The variety and intensity of his rendition of the voices of different characters is impressive, and provides a strong compliment to his “observer” tone, which matches the pace of the action.

It's a thumbs up from me.

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