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  • The Unburdened

  • The Horus Heresy Series
  • By: David Annandale
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
  • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (50 ratings)

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The Unburdened

By: David Annandale
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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Long considering themselves persecuted by the rest of the Imperium, the apostles of the XVIIth Legion have courted sedition, betrayal and even open heresy for decades.

But for Kurtha Sedd of the Third Hand Chapter, the Word Bearers' assault on Calth has proven...troubling. Drawn into the haunted shadows of the planet's underworld, the Chaplain and his devout brethren must now put aside all other concerns and continue to wage war against the Ultramarines, no matter the ultimate cost.

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Absolutely amazing character development for one of GW’s more short lived but best written villains!!!

Answers many questions in the details that lead up to Kurtha Sedd’s fate in Censure, Gives a unique look at what happened on calth in parts of the underworld war that took place in the arcology and tunnel systems beneath calth’s surfacr

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Continuing of Calth

The story is from the heretic side of things. While it is interesting, it lacks depth and seems to only continue the Calth campaign.

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was alright

Third book of the series with another view of the battle of Calth...book was okay but heard to get into it after hearing the same battle for third time.

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Great sequel

A great sequels , Excellent performance, One of the best books for insight to the word bearers.

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What An Awful Book

This is the worst kind of book, 40K or otherwise. The kind that meanders around the same beats over and over until you just give up and set it to 2x speed to get it over faster.

it follows a Chaplain of the Word Bearers, wrestling with his faith at the start of the underground war for Calth. The problem is it goes on and on and on, switching back and forth between the same exact three scenes.

1) "Ooh, I am tortured by doubt if I am righteous enough to serve the Chaos Gods! Will I ever overcome my lingering remnants of humanity to become the Chaos Man I must be?"

2) "Ooh, entire paragraphs of purple prose about the nebulous The Dark of Chaos. I have to go through spirit quest nonsense to harness The Dark! Meat and bone and sellioquey and ash and fury blah blah blah."

3) "Ooh, a firefight against nameless Ultramarines with little to no sense of scale or place. A few of us have been shot, but our numbers are vague and shift enough to make any sense of attrition or loss meaningless narratively."

Mix and match these a minimum of a dozen times.

it's not even good bolter porn either, and if you like the Word Bearers like I do then you'll wonder why we have to listen to the least cunning, least charismatic, lowest IQ one there is. Skip this book, hard.

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