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Vengeful Spirit

The Horus Heresy, Book 29

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Once the brightest star in the Imperium and always first among his primarch brothers, Horus has dragged the Space Marine Legions into the bloodiest conflict that the galaxy has ever seen. While their allies wage war on a thousand different fronts, the XVIth Legion descend upon the Knight world of Molech - home to the ruling House Devine, and a principle stronghold of the Imperial Army.

The forces loyal to the Emperor stand ready to defy the Warmaster, but just what could have drawn Horus to attack such a well defended planet, and what might he be willing to sacrifice to fulfill his own dark destiny?

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This book has some great moments and does move the overall story forward. Some bits in particular are critical to the overall story. Only reason I didn’t like it is there is a lot that happens before the book really gets going.

A keystone book in the Horus Heresy series

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Lots of great lore and mystery unlocked by the war master, I have to say the more I read of the heresy the more I sympathise with the so called traitors

Great narration and superb tale

Astartes beginnings!

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This is a really interesting story exploring the dynamic between Horus and his fellow traitor brothers as they try to discern what happened at Molech. The relationships explored show a previously under-explored element of the fragile alliance between traitor Primarchs, but I’m afraid I can’t tell you much about what actually happens.

The narration on this is just poor. He clearly tries, so I’m not going to give it 1 star, but every dialogue sounds like a quip to the point that you’d be forgiven for thinking the narrator approached this as a slapstick. He stumbles over sentences a little too often, in the same way our brains often miss a word or don’t realise the sentence has carried on - but a professional narrator should have at least exercised/practiced what they are narrating.

I have a slight feeling I am biased because I came straight off Master of Mankind and Wolfsbane (I know, I’m listening in the wrong order) and the narrations on those were exceptional. The comparison with Wolfsbane is especially unfortunate as the narrator on that gets the voice of Leman Russ *perfectly* whilst on this the narrator seems to want to give Russ a fairly standard English accent, but then his legionaries have really hammed up Norwegian or Swedish accents.

There’s also just the unfortunate inability to distinguish between who’s talking, at times. Obviously it’s easier on a page, but this narrator seems to give very little effort into giving the characters distinctive voices, and I think it’s largely because of, both, the quip-style dialogue he goes for, and the speed at which he narrates speech.

It’s a shame. I enjoyed the story but just couldn’t listen beyond a few hours.

Unfortunate narration

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Fantastic story and great performance from the reader!
It is important to have read some of the earlier books in the Horus Heresy series, if not it will get confusing with all the characters.
It progresses the overall heresy story well and gives some great lore insight

Very enjoyable, but you need to have read some of the earlier books

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Absolutely fantastic. Love Loken and the knights Errant and the wolf is just awesome

OMG

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