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painful.

Revisado: 07-02-22

I get it. these characters are all broken. so very broken. listening to them slowly invent psychology to cope with this is so very painful to listen too. this is probably the only way he could take it though as everyone is now invincible by being a radiant or the edge dancer/truth watcher plot device. so since they can't suffer physically we have mental break downs.

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vast improvement over his previous work.

Revisado: 06-20-22

he has very interesting premises and does interesting things with them. I liked gods grave but it stumbled a lot for me. this was a vast improvement. very good and I'm looking forward to the next.

there are some audio issues However. the audio dips and some words get cut off. now and again. the narrator is great though.

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Wouldn't have spent money on it.

Revisado: 05-21-22

As it's free I can't complain too much. I liked the series and this was an okay addition aside from Mal's plot. Seeing everyone's interactions again was fun, but the reason for the events to take place is just... not good. Again it was free though, If you've got time to kill and liked the show give it a shot.

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Tied for worst 40k book I've listened to.

Revisado: 05-21-22

I've listened to a few dozen 40k novels and this is probably tied for the worst along with nemesis. I actually finished nemesis though. this is the first book I've ever been lost as to what was happening, or why.

I'm not the biggest fan of Gareth's readings, but for the most part he's oaky. This was his worst performance yet in my opinion. I know he can do better, and to be fair there was nothing to work with.

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Ok

Revisado: 12-03-21

Not the worst in the series so far. Not the best either. It's alright. Hope it gets better than the last two entries.

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More Titans, less John Grammaticus

Revisado: 06-24-21

I was looking forward to the titan battles, and they were cool, but I'm really not a fan of the John Grammaticus story line. It's spliced in so randomly, has had no impact on any of the events, and makes no sense. Just random time travel done poorly and for reasons not well explained unless I'm missing something. Neither he nor any of the people in his story line are interesting or likable. I have yet to come across a story with John that I actually liked. He just ruins everything.

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"Needed Something To Sell"

Revisado: 02-28-20

That's literally how he starts off this short, talking about how his store was empty from some book deal and he needed something to sell. That is an awful and weird way to start a story, I honestly heard that and turned it off. Not sure if I'm actually going to listen to it.

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Near Pointless Info Dump

Revisado: 02-28-20

Up to this point I've thought this series was great. One of the best I've ever read. I was a little iffy on the Age of Legend, but hopeful. This is a disappointment though and I have no idea where it's going from this point. Not in a good way either.

Almost nothing actually happened in this book. It mostly served as a massive info dump on the world's backstory.When it wasn't discussing the world building it was mostly padding. I lost count of the time spent informing each and every single character walking through the underworld that nothing is real. If even half of it was cut out I think it would knock around an hour off the run time, if not more. After a while it almost felt like the author thought I might be an idiot. Strangely that's how a lot of the characters are starting to act.

SPOLERS from here down;

There are so many strange things and interactions.

The dwarf Rain's only purpose of joining them was to find a woman he's dreamed about forever. He finally comes face to face with her and reacts like he has no idea who they are, even on the slightly hostile side. This was his life's goal and it's like he forgot. It's also highly anticlimactic. Turns out it's just a lady who can see the future. She says he's going to be a king and he will 100% survive every coming event. It's so poorly executed... It also brings up the issue that Rain, along with Brin, now can not be used to danger bait. Since he becomes a king for sure, and Brin clearly released her book by the chapter interludes, you know neither can come to any real harm. They are in no danger.

Moya find out she's been in love with murder and just cool with it. Tekchin helped wipe out two entire villages, kicking off an entirely unnecessary war. and somehow they have the audacity to be annoyed with Tesh, Hundreds upon hundreds of deaths were caused by this and Tesh is the only one who cares and he gets hate for it. Bafling.

There are more examples, but there are some just random, nonsensical scenes too. A giant army is hunting them down, then a giant snake thing blocks their path. Rain has a sudden digging competition with the snake thing while the army is advancing, and it just leaves... not brought up again... and then the whole group abandons Tesh for no real reason. Just leave him to get captured and tortured.

Also apparently Nefrel (hell) is just a place of eternal war. That's fine, but there are two factions, one lead by a God, and the other just some 'heroes' who died. The heroes talk about their goal of bringing the god down, etc. etc. but when she appears at the battle they just give up. It makes no sense... I can't accurately explain just how bad it is in this box there are so many weird flaws, though processes, and writing.

The problem I had before with the other books is back with avengeance too. Holding scenes. Have you ever asked how many different ways can one person tell another person to run and leave them behind? How many ways can that person say no? If so you're in luck. He explores every single last one of those possibilities in a single scene that drags on to the point of me thinking about skipping ahead because I don't care anymore and I hope they get overrun for wasting time. It happened a few times in the other books, but he ramped it up here.

It also end literally the same way the previous book did. They are in the underworld after dying, so what happens on their long journey through basically Purgatory and Hell? They fall into "The Abyss"... So they essentially die in the land of the dead again since "no one comes back from that fall". Not to mention this is all a waste of time since Suri The Mystic doesn't need to be rescued anymore.Even if she had needed it they'd have been far too late with how long all of this had taken. They sit down to multiple cups of tea and story times while their friend could be dying by brutal torture for all they know...

There's more, but you get the idea. I'm going to finish the series, but this is not a good start to the end. It's quite bad actually.

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Not Just A Great 40k Novel

Revisado: 09-27-19

This isn't just the best 40k series I've read. This is the best book series I've ever read. That's right "read". This will be the first audio book I've purchased of a real life book I already own. That's how good it is.

Hands down the best sympathetic depiction of villains I've ever read. This is the first of three, and I really hope they bring the other two out as well. I can't say enough good about it. Get it if you have any interest at all.

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Don't Start Here

Revisado: 08-29-19

I guess I should have read reviews. I didn't know these were short stories either. I just thought starting with the first one on the list would be the way to go but I was wrong.

Through the whole thing I was trying to piece a cohesive narrative together and I just couldn't do it, but that was by design clearly. The stories themselves are nice and engaging, but with no through line and the jumping back to one in particular that requires series knowledge was quite confusing.

I'm going to try actual book one to see how it goes, but with just this I'd say it's over hyped, though well written now knowing it's short stories stuck together.

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