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Priests of Mars

Forge of Mars: Warhammer 40,000, Book 1

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Book one in the Forges of Mars series.

An Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator fleet ventures beyond the borders of the Imperium in pursuit of arcane technology. Who knows what perils may lie outside the dominion of mankind?

Listen to it because: it's a novel like nothing else from Black Library. Graham McNeill crafts a tale that only he could tell, beginning a mind-bending saga of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Chaos and more besides.

The story: legend tells of a foolhardy expedition, led by the radical Magos Telok, that ventured out into the unknown space beyond the Halo Worlds in search of the 'Breath of the Gods' - an arcane device with the power to unmake and reshape the very stars themselves. Thousands of years later, the ambitious Lexell Kotov musters his Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator fleet and sets out to follow in mad old Telok's footsteps. With the might of the Imperial Guard and the Space Marines to augment his own forces, he searches for the hidden clues that will lead him to greatest power that the galaxy has ever known. But who knows what ancient perils may yet lie outside the Imperium and the dominion of mankind?

Written by Graham McNeill. Narrated by Joe Jameson.

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The story is great, tho it does lack some explanation for the ending. Not going in to deep in the story its a solid one that senters around alt of well writhen people. The one thing holding the book back is the narrator. He does a good job on some of the people, but everything melts tougher as one big blob of voices. Until the names of the people that spoke I often had to guess who was talking. Not saying he did a bad job, but more a semi good one.

Good story, and a somewhat good narritor

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Interesting characters, good setup, descriptions can be a bit long but otherwise a good foundation. Which is the issue it all feels like setup for a grand adventure to come.

Otherwise there are moments where the recording repeats a phrase which is annoying, the narrator himself is pretty good though.

Decent start

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Took me a while to get into it, but I persevered and was glad I did. In the end I did enjoy it, plus, I thought the narrator was excellent, which I wasn’t expecting based on the other reviews.

Took me a while

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A mixture of humans, cogboys and Space Marines with a pinch of Eldar to add some friction.
There’s a goal of the story somewhere, but it isn’t clear beyond the point of a fleet going where it shouldn’t be able to go.

A good introduction to the Cogboys

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This got downgraded to background listening pretty quickly, then to unfinished. The constant geeky describing of servo motors in yet another battle sequence just got too tedious. I am a Sci fi fan who enjoys Ian M Banks, Asimov, etc, but this just has no depth.

Narration is fine, and I enjoy his style from other audio books.

Dull

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