Short and sweet

I was not bored. The characters did not annoy me. The book did not spend 3 hours describing the details of every nail, screw or weapon. These are all positives, but sometimes lacking in the 40k books.

There is enough build up of characters and the setting, and the book flows at a good pace. The story is interesting, and the narration is great. The premise did not at first appeal that much to me, but the good writing and quick pace drew me in.

If it was longer, it would have ended up dragging and bloated. I did not wish it to be longer, but it made me want to read more books by the author, and for him to write more 40k books. In that, at least, the book was successful. And it was a new and interesting way of telling a story in this setting. Much more worth the credit than some 16 hour long, bloated mess where nothing happens, and everything is described. in. painful. detail.

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Great BL Story

Credit to the author and the narrator for an entertaining and unique story! I really enjoyed the insight into how a cult is perceived from within and how it can bring about its revolution. Not for the first time I find admech are great antagonists for the way they compare and contrast with the protagonist faction, a forgeworld additionally being the perfect setting for a cult uprising. I've seen some reviews wishing the book was longer, and while this wouldn't hurt I personally found the length to be more than sufficient to tell a great story.

Well worth a credit, 5/5!

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A great introduction to the Imperium's dark side!

This book scratches deep beneath the surface of Imperial life, putting readers among the diseased and impoverished servants of the cruelty of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Discover how people are swayed to cult worship, and witness more of the Adeptus Mechanicus' ice-cold politicking. Recommended for readers who dare to discover the side of the Imperium not covered in as nearlyy as much detail as it ought to be!

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amazing voice work

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Great adeptus mechanics & genestealer book

Taps into somewhat cliche themes of oppression and rebellion but such an amazing picture of an adeptus mechanics world. Then in the opposite side of the fence you have the oppressed.

You get why any world in the empire would rebel and how vulnerable they are to tyranids. And why the heretics must be fervously flushed out.

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A truly heretical work

Major props to the narrator on this one, he was fantastic.
A thrilling sorry about Mechanicus hubris and greed, whilst being an insightful window into the life and cause of the gene stealers

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Good inclusion of admech and cultist units

I thought it was a solid concept. the way the narrator does cultist voices is a lil grating though.

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Cool story, no filler

Genestealers are a cool concept. so nice to read a 40k book with a compelling story without pages of over the top descriptive writing and filler.

hopefully the author does more!

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a great new Angle of THE CULT

Just finished Day of Ascension by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It's a bit of a coup to get an established Sci fi author to write a Black Library book and it would be very cool if he did more or they managed to poach someone else at some point. While this book is on the short side it crams in a lot of content. When I play the game I play Admech or Genestealer Cults, so seeing my two factions put head to head is great! Both have appeared in a lot of books before now but this is very different. It's not much of a spoiler to say that the GSC are basically the heroes of this story, and not simply the brainwashed hybrid brood often depicted. Basically, life for the working class on the forge world of Morod is so nasty, so brutish and so short, that staging a revolution and then being eaten by a hive fleet is honestly preferable, dressed up in the right language, this the most... human and relatable the GSC has ever been on the page, you will root for them.
The Adeptus mechanicus are more as you would expect, but no less enjoyable to read about, the author really captures the stagnation and inertia of their doctrines. Both represented in their religious activities and the byzantine politicking they get up to.
Having read Tchaikovsky's full length books I'd really like something longer than this in the 41st millennium, but that's really my only complaint. Excellent book!

excellent narration, great array of voices, I enjoyed the Fabricator General in particular.

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everything I wanted from a GSC story!

Great juxtaposition between the all consuming demands of the mechanicum and the tryanid swarm.

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