William Barry Ellerbee

The End of the Story, but not The Death

Revisado: 03-16-24

Keeble and Abnett deliver a capstone performance to a series that began in 2006. The tragedy, the death of dreams, the indomitable human spirit, and the birth of the grim-darkness of the far future that knows only war… it’s all here. Read it, if you dare. Here be monsters and men, angels and daemons, and worse besides. The circle has closed, the ouroborus has at last, its’ tail consumed. A Death, but not the End.

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A Man, A Monster, and a Hero: but Whom is Which?

Revisado: 05-23-23

Counted among my collection as one of the best of BL’s many offerings, this tale set in the 41st millennium takes place in a critical juncture for the Imperium. We, the reader, follow along three narrators as they meander, dance, and barrel headlong towards a climactic union of mysterious and unpredictable chances that may save the Imperium or doom it forever. Listen for 10/10 narration, gripping grim-dark stories, and insights into those who in M.41 call Terra “Home.”

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Who is Huron? Or rather… what?

Revisado: 09-04-22

One of the most well narrated and well written of all of Black Library’s various tales I’ve read over the years. The performance was IMMACULATE. I cannot recommend the narrator nor the tale enough. If you have even a cursory interest in the Pirate King of Chaos in the 41st millennium, give this a whirl.

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Near Perfection

Revisado: 12-11-21

With the exception of one story being seemingly out of place in the storyline, this is nearly a perfect experience in the 40k audible world. The sound effects are perfect, the noise-voice-music balance superb. Hoping for more of these collected audio dramas. “Necessity is the mother of invention.”

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Primarch-Palooza Presents Perfectly Postured Politician-Kings

Revisado: 06-23-21

Probably one of the best stories so far in the Horus Heresy series and fabulously narrated. The subplot of John Grammaticus ever deepens and the Avenging Son must summon all of his strength and courage to keep the idea of an Imperium of Man from becoming just a faded memory.

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If Combat Logs & LOTR had a baby

Revisado: 06-20-21

Some may find the disjointed “time stamps” to be jarring and difficult to follow along with at first, but PLEASE give it a shot. The winding paths eventually run together under the smoke-filled skies of Calth and, in a fashion akin to events such as Pearl Harbor & The World Trade Center bombings, even legendary warriors, machine-men, & transhuman demigods stand aghast at the horror Lorgar & his Warp-Crazed Word Bearers have wrought on the burgeoning military jewel in the Crown of the 500 worlds.

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A Love Letter to the Abhuman

Revisado: 05-03-21

This story is a fantastic telling of fraternity, shackled emotions, and the mind-numbing scale of what an uncaring universe looks like within the 40K universe.

The only gripe I have at *all* with this tale of how the Blood Angels of Baal are all at once the best and worst of the Emperor’s Angels is that the author often breaks the stride of the story to double-down on just how fragile unmodulated humans are. In the midst of battles between Eldritch horrors and Titans of Justice, we really don’t need a seventeenth reminder that “human bodies are so frail and vulnerable to internal injuries.”

The raw emotions, the struggle of demigods to remember oaths made under duress, and the matchless skill of the 9th Legion in the midst of pitched battle are all displayed peerlessly. The narrator’s choice of voice for The Angel in particular was a perfect fit, equal parts soothing, sanguine, and calm, while also lowering into near-feral growls and bellows of rage in moments when the Emperor’s Angel finds himself in the darkest points of his life thus far. The Sons of the Angel are also represented nearly flawlessly, conjuring images in the mind of these warrior-lords with noble visages and patrician features that dance their deadly blade dance along the mind’s eye.

TL;DR - 10/10, one of the best Audio books I’ve heard narrated thus far.

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