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Priests of Mars
- Forge of Mars: Warhammer 40,000, Book 1
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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Summary
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.
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- Stm. Kuikka
- 05-01-22
Somewhat boring
Nothing happens in this until it does, and then it's over.
It's just so annoying when you want the story to progress and it doesn't for the 75% of the book. It's an interesting premise, then it goes on and on and on and on and then it's just stupid.
If you like AdMech, you should rather get the Horus Heresy book Mechanicum, you get a decent book with a lot more content.
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- Garnet
- 03-09-22
Cockney Space Marines! (but give it a go)
I was a bit reluctant to go for this book, based on some of the negative reviews. However, I was pleasantly surprised... The narrator's voice doesn't really work for space marines and some other minor characters, but it has a weedling, annoyed quality that really suits the senior members of the Adeptus Mechanicus. I'll definitely read the next one.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-09-23
a setup for the series.
This book is to create a setup for the rest but It did make me interested, the narrator is doing his best but it's not fitting for the story
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- Anonymous User
- 07-11-21
book of setup
a lot of setup in this book, will see what they do with it.
no real arks completed as a lot of things just happen to characters.
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- mandroid2525
- 29-05-23
God's in the Machines
Delightful tale about the Secretive Mars Mechanicus agenda as usual Heresy is never far away but the Empire needs their Technological knowledge but when juiced up predatory AI Galatea shows up leading the expedition towards and unknown part of the Galaxy where a Mythical superpoweful spaceship lay ripe for the taking and Loyalties are devided and nothing is what it seems to be...
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- Joel Cassin
- 27-05-22
solid entertainment
A well paced story with plenty of well fleshed out characters pardon the pun. Given that some of them are cult mechanics.
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- Glenn Davidson
- 24-09-22
Middling
I struggled to finish this. Story seemed to just meander and some of the voices used were quite grated 😞
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- Anonymous User
- 20-06-23
Good, nothing else to say
Some suprises, good ones. Leaves me wanting to hear more about the persons and things.
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- Joseph
- 25-11-21
A good mechanicus book for sure!
A lot of people don’t like the mass profusion of space marine books BL comes out with. Although I don’t mind it too much even I found this book to be a breath of fresh air.
The only issue I had was it felt like a beginning all the way through; not a big deal since it is the first of a trilogy, and I loved the entire journey involved, but the drama getting there was pretty entertaining.
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- Joss
- 26-06-22
Unsuitable narrator, poor editing
Several lines reread, not edited out.
The narrator cannot evoke the proper feel of the setting with voices chosen.
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