Great audio treatment for an old fave

The Emperor's Gift was first published by Black LIbrary in 2012. This Grey Knights romp is an old favourite of mine, and I was nervous to see it appear in audiobook with a narrator I didn't initially recognise - given the recent less-than-stellar performance of some new Black Library narrators. At any rate, I needn't have worried. Christopher Kent's delivery of every space marine line in this audiobook is as marvellously deep, rich and throaty as anyone could wish. In fact, so impressed/relieved was I that in the first few minutes, I might have jumped out of my seat and actually shouted 'Holy sh*t that's a proper &%&^ing space marine voice!' (which earned me some funny looks as I was sitting in traffic on the M4 at the time).
The story itself is as dark, amoral and well told as you'd expect from Aaron Dembski-Bowden, with his trademark quality characterization. Its certainly got nothing to do with the blurb from Black LIbrary ("Two aspirants are recruited into the Grey Knights, and must hone their psychic talents if they are to join the hallowed and mysterious ranks of the Space Marine daemon hunters") This is pure nonsense. I really wonder sometimes if the person who writes Black LIbrary blurbs ever actually reads the books themselves.
The plot has held up well in the last decade and it dovetails with events in the lore and other books, including one of the interminable wars for Armegeddon, the recent Angrom novel, and even the Ravenor books. The only reason this isn't a 5/5 for story is that I feel that ADB does his best work when working with the truly dark side of grimdark and I wouldn't quite put this up there with the Black Legion novels that (for me) are his best work.

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Grey knights and the wolves

Great winding story of brotherhood and two factions caught in politics and egos. Great audio book

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The Grey Knights even have to chill out sometimes

This was a great read, well performed and structured . Nothing ground breaking but the scale of ranks and power levels are well done when the fighting happens and when it doesn't the right level of drama is enacted. No good guys here only grey (pardon the pun).

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Gray kings have it rough

One of my personal favorites. this book made me understand and apriciate those dudes from Titan. and like wolf's even more. First part of the book was kinda mid but following half telling the story of Months of shame is god tier.

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Awesome piece of lore!

Must listen if you like wolves or grey knights. Awesome story delivered superbly! Few moment made my eyes tear up and had goosebumps. Would highly recommend!

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Great book, even if the Grey Knights do get mugged off

I had heard rave reviews about this book and I even managed to get a copy of the print version but 6 months later I haven’t gotten around to reading it so I got the audio. It’s a great book as I’m a grey knights fanatic.

The books is essentially 2 stories - the war on Armageddon and the aftermath. The book proves once again that the inquisition is basically based on ‘that order that started WW11’ using incredibly inhumane methods to meet and end that, can be avoided and handled without the loss of billions of lives.

Anyway, love the grey knights but here they smash demons half the book then get made to look like absolute mugs by the grey wolves in the second half….. so much so that you wonder why they were ever created if there are better incorruptible forces out there… still that aside it’s a great book albeit more favourable to the Wolves in character building and leading to other stories than Grey knights.

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An informative and engaging Grey Knights story

Learn about and experience Grey Knights abilities (both physical and psychic), combat, lore, triumphs and defeats in a well rounded and engaging story from a Grey Knight perspective.

The narration is excellent and fits the pov of a Grey Knight.

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This is good one

There’s a description of a relic warrior coming before the Inquisition which is worth the price of the audiobook

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Brilliant

Great narration, fascinating insight into the Grey Knights and Space Wolves. Recommended for all 40k fans

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I love this book

fantastic representation of the Grey Knights and the Space wolves, I highly recommend this for anyone who wants to explore how these factions interact within the imperium

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