John Antioch

An unfocused and unsatisfying story

Revisado: 01-21-25

This story has a lot of good elements but ultimately fails to unify them into a coherent and interesting story. The Death Watch Marines especially were all over the place. The POV Librarian Marine was compelling, and so were the Excorcist and the Lementer Dreadnaught, but all the others ranged from petty and annoying to incompitent and downright childish. Overall the author should have turned this into two books and hired a better editor. The narrator was decent with all neutral, asian and british accents but struggled a lot with others, not a deal breaker but it definitely took me out of the story several times. If you're desperate for Deathwatch vs Tau go ahead and read it, but if not I'd recommend saving your credit for one of the much better Warhammer novels.

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An Eleven-Hour Snooze Fest

Revisado: 06-05-23

The description of this book implies some kind of genuine struggle between a group of Kasrkin and the military forces of the Tau Empire. It's framed as an exciting race against time to rescue a senior officer in a hostile environment. What this author actually delivered was a snail-paced, 4 way conversation in the desert between an officer, a sergeant, a daddy's-boy commisar, and a cast of one dimensional soldiers. The majority of the cast is so unimportant that the majority of them die in half a line of text or "off screen". There isn't a single Tau in the whole book aside from drones, one Devil Fish, and some Kroot near the finale.

The book only begins to get slightly interesting when they run into the desert people, but the way they present them, and the casual and understanding way the officer deals with a non-sanctioned psycher is baffling. In fact, the strangest part of this story is how every single member of the Astra Militarum in this book is completely chill with psychers and xenos from the outset. It's just so odd. I feel like the author wanted to write an introspective SciFi novel in a different setting, but got stuck with writing a 40k Novel.

Frankly the only interesting things in this whole story are the Kroot Kinband and the senile Necrom Tomb Lord, all of which are very briefly focused on and are only introduced when you've slogged about two-thirds of the way through this novel.

All in all it's not worth the price or the time. There are far better novels about both the Guard and Xenos available.

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An overall Good Mixed Bag

Revisado: 02-28-23

A decent collection of stories overall and some good perspectives of "non-super" human characters working for various Imperial Agencies. Some stories are pretty bad though. The Greyfax, Assassinorum, and Blackstone Fortress stories in particular were very hard to take seriously. A mix of cringey diologue and overly grandiose voice-acting in my opinion. It's a bit disappointing, as I've come to expect high quality from all Warhammer 40k Novels. Worth the listen I think though, even if only to listen to the Eisenhorn stories.

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Does not actually include the "Necronomicon"

Revisado: 06-24-21

I bought this wanting to listen to the actual book. It's only a collection of the more popular works of HP Lovecraft.

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Anti-European Fantastical Torture-Porn

Revisado: 12-19-20

Baseless, insane claims that make every European look like a Psychopath. Don't waste your time.

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A Herald of Masculine Virtue

Revisado: 03-31-20

While I don't resonate with everything in this book, I can definitely say young European men should read it. It captures the essence of what it means to be a man among men. It is a call to strength and a must read.

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