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Priests of Mars

Forge of Mars: Warhammer 40,000, Book 1

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Book one in the Forges of Mars series.

An Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator fleet ventures beyond the borders of the Imperium in pursuit of arcane technology. Who knows what perils may lie outside the dominion of mankind?

Listen to it because: it's a novel like nothing else from Black Library. Graham McNeill crafts a tale that only he could tell, beginning a mind-bending saga of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Chaos and more besides.

The story: legend tells of a foolhardy expedition, led by the radical Magos Telok, that ventured out into the unknown space beyond the Halo Worlds in search of the 'Breath of the Gods' - an arcane device with the power to unmake and reshape the very stars themselves. Thousands of years later, the ambitious Lexell Kotov musters his Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator fleet and sets out to follow in mad old Telok's footsteps. With the might of the Imperial Guard and the Space Marines to augment his own forces, he searches for the hidden clues that will lead him to greatest power that the galaxy has ever known. But who knows what ancient perils may yet lie outside the Imperium and the dominion of mankind?

Written by Graham McNeill. Narrated by Joe Jameson.

©2021 Games Workshop Limited (P)2021 Games Workshop Limited Space Exploration Science Fiction Military Mars Interstellar Fiction Solar System
Fascinating Expedition • Intriguing Mechanicus Lore • Excellent Female Voices • Varied Characters • Engaging Worldbuilding

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the reader was a bad choice take about an hour to get over him

if you just past the reader voice for the 1st hour

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I really wish Audible has a separate rating for the actual production of the book. The narration is fantastic, but sometimes a sentence accidentally repeats, and I checked to make sure it wasn’t just my phone glitching.

Overall the story is good. However, I do have a complaint with just how many different stories and characters there are at a given moment. I think one chapter alone ended up cycling through like 6 different POVs. It’s not really that hard to keep track of them, I just hate being drip fed some of the ones I’m more interested in.

Also really enjoy how this one expands of some more detailed Mechanicus stuff, as well as starting to scratch the horror that is Servitors.

Would recommend!

Good story with some minor production issues

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I've read several other books featuring the Admech. The ones in this book were far more "human" than in the other ones I've read.
Bah, maybe it's just me, but a novice space marine shouldn't be easily defeating a combat magos in single combat. And maybe I misunderstood it, but a Black Templar Ecclesiarch feeling doubt and a loss of purpose (if even for a moment) while fighting aliens seems off.
But what do I know? This guy writes for Black Library and I'm just some dude that paints minis!

It seemed a little off.

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Space marine blood Flash clots to an almost glassy like substance. Other than that fantastic.

good stuff

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Lots of laborious setup, great climax, mid ending, but it's the first of a series.

it takes 4 hours for the story to start

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