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Vengeful Spirit

The Horus Heresy, Book 29

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Vengeful Spirit

By: Graham McNeill
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
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Once the brightest star in the Imperium and always first among his primarch brothers, Horus has dragged the Space Marine Legions into the bloodiest conflict that the galaxy has ever seen. While their allies wage war on a thousand different fronts, the XVIth Legion descend upon the Knight world of Molech - home to the ruling House Devine, and a principle stronghold of the Imperial Army.

The forces loyal to the Emperor stand ready to defy the Warmaster, but just what could have drawn Horus to attack such a well defended planet, and what might he be willing to sacrifice to fulfill his own dark destiny?

©2014 Games Workshop Limited (P)2014 Games Workshop Limited Adventure Fantasy Fiction Military Science Fiction

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my new favourite in the series. story is interesting and there's plenty of action

awesome

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The book itself is fantastic. However, I really struggled listening to it because of the Narrator. There are far too many lip smacking and mouth sounds and they don’t really change their voice much for some of the different characters which makes the story hard to follow sometimes. The character I struggle to follow most is Loken who is one of the main characters in the story, this could just be because of previous narrators doing a far deeper, gruffer voice though. I just wish this Narrator tried to follow this trend

Good book, bad narrator

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An important part of the story of thr Horus Heresy, good performance throughout. Story has some very strong moments but suffers from a couple of pivotal character points not being built up as much as they felt they could have been. McNeil's descriptions and timing is on point, feels like listening to a TV show with well timed cut aways that make you want to keep listening!

A little inconsistent with a good finale

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This is a really interesting story exploring the dynamic between Horus and his fellow traitor brothers as they try to discern what happened at Molech. The relationships explored show a previously under-explored element of the fragile alliance between traitor Primarchs, but I’m afraid I can’t tell you much about what actually happens.

The narration on this is just poor. He clearly tries, so I’m not going to give it 1 star, but every dialogue sounds like a quip to the point that you’d be forgiven for thinking the narrator approached this as a slapstick. He stumbles over sentences a little too often, in the same way our brains often miss a word or don’t realise the sentence has carried on - but a professional narrator should have at least exercised/practiced what they are narrating.

I have a slight feeling I am biased because I came straight off Master of Mankind and Wolfsbane (I know, I’m listening in the wrong order) and the narrations on those were exceptional. The comparison with Wolfsbane is especially unfortunate as the narrator on that gets the voice of Leman Russ *perfectly* whilst on this the narrator seems to want to give Russ a fairly standard English accent, but then his legionaries have really hammed up Norwegian or Swedish accents.

There’s also just the unfortunate inability to distinguish between who’s talking, at times. Obviously it’s easier on a page, but this narrator seems to give very little effort into giving the characters distinctive voices, and I think it’s largely because of, both, the quip-style dialogue he goes for, and the speed at which he narrates speech.

It’s a shame. I enjoyed the story but just couldn’t listen beyond a few hours.

Unfortunate narration

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We learn a great deal about Horus and several other major characters in this tale. it's really well narrated as you would expect.
highly recommended.

So many pieces of the Heresy jigsaw!

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Few HH books leave such a lasting impact as the first 3. Vengeful Spirit is a good carry on for characters you know and love with just enough fresh faces to work. It starts off feeling a little disjointed as it builds the big picture but once all the pieces are layed out everything fits.

My only critique is that it feels like 2 different stories, one with the battle for Molech and a second following the Pathfinder team. How the two stories interject makes the timeline skew slightly as one minute a character is on Moloch the next they are aboard the Vengeful Spirit with very little happening between.

To fully appreciate this novel, a little prior reading is recommended. The first 3 HH novels are a given aswell as Flight of the Eisenstein and some of the Garro novels (Oath of Moment and Legion of One) to properly understand each character and where they have come from up to now. Despite the pre reading it is definitely a good journey for each chacter from across several novels.

Fitting follow-on for Galaxy in Flames.

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it's a fantastic book but there's major spoilers in this one for Garro...I know it's 15 books later but trust me on this one, you'll be completely confused

Get Garro before this one!

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Great novel, some.of the pronouncations were a bit off with names but the story as a whole was great!!

must listen if reading the HH!

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While advancing the Hours Heresy story, this book feels like it was rushed, or it was meant as a trilogy like the first three books. There are so many characters and character arcs that I had a hard time caring for any one of them. And by the time the story returned to an arc I was previously interested in, I had already lost interest in that arc (like for example Horus's journey to the endgame). Also I feel that too much attention was given to the description of warfare and battles, so much so that by the time any battles finish I had a hard time remembering what was the battle fought for. This also means less time for character dialogue and development. One last gripe I have with this book is that it's climax was a bit disappointing in the way it was constructed, despite its major significance to the Heresy. It felt as if it was glanced over and then the story moved on.
All in all it's a good Heresy story but with a mediocre execution.

Not bad but not great

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It's a great story, almost linking back to the original first three novels. Garviel is back as a main character which is great. It is however very strange hearing him voiced like a curious cheeky public school boy. Previous narators have voiced him with far more gravitas. Still a good story though.

Great , But odd Narration

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