Zach Mercer

Terrible Narration, Mediocre Story

Revisado: 03-26-24

Why on earth would you get a narrator that can't change voices? Every character sounds exactly the same as the narration and it gets old fast. Aside from that, I thought the story itself was a painfully average slog. As someone who has been through real bootcamp and consumed an inordinate amount of sci-fi bootcamps, there was little here for me to latch on to. The sci-fi element itself seems almost incidental, and takes a back seat so the author can vomit up his personal (and terrible) worldviews through transparent author-surrogate characters. I recomend checking out "Old Man's War" by John Scalzi instead. Don't waste your time with this.

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What a Waste

Revisado: 12-05-23

I had been waiting literal years for these two to finally meet, and the payoff is anything but satisfying. Everything happens exactly as you'd expect without any nuance or depth that Haley is definitely capable of. Banks's lack of vocal range is also hilariously apparent when Cawl and Bile start conversing with the exact same voice. As someone who's loved both characters' up to this point, this really did not live up to expectations.

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I was waiting for the self-pity to stop

Revisado: 11-02-23

...then it ended. A neat concept but so overwrought in petty self absorption that it's an absolute chore to get through. After the 11th time she regurgitated the same information I decided to put it on double speed to get through it for my book club. The performance itself is dreadful as the reader can't seem to make the characters and narration sound different enough to tell any of it a part. Dreadful.

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Incredible

Revisado: 02-25-22

I've read MANY Black Library books over the years, and never have I seen a book take full advantage of the setting like this. In a sea of brutality and blunt stupidity, this story manages to weave cleverness through every chapter. I can't reccomend it enough.

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Fine story, let down by narration

Revisado: 02-09-22

John Banks simply doesn't have the range to deal with multiple "normal" characters. Most of the time Guilliman's voice is inconsistent and the same goes for everyone that isn't sanguinius. The lion and Curze sound too similar which makes it hard to tell who's talking when they chat.

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Much better narration

Revisado: 12-08-21

This was worlds better than the previous book in terms of narration, but the story is difficult to follow and jumps around too much. It really could have benefited from location and time setting before sections.

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An actually good book

Revisado: 11-18-21

I was surprised when I saw Gav Thorpe wrote a space wolf book, but it turned out to be an excellent little outing. My main problem is that John Banks can't do space wolves, he doesn't try to give them any accent beyond extra gravely. Otherwise its a fine book for any space wolf fan.

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This is the worst narration I've ever heard

Revisado: 09-24-21

The story is fine, but for some reason the narrator decided to make everyone sound like muppets. I honestly cannot get through the book, it's that terrible.

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esto le resultó útil a 2 personas

much better

Revisado: 08-31-21

This was much more exciting than the previous book. Lots of players and plots that keep the story moving. I listened to it every chance I got.

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not bad

Revisado: 08-25-21

An extraordinarily fine is fine book. Nothing incredible and nothing we haven't seen before.

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