A brilliant installation of the Beast Arises

A brilliant installation of the Beast Arises by Gav Thorpe. Twisting internecine politics with gripping naval combat and an enveloping Warhammer universe is skillfully achieved in this production.

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very vood

i enjoyed it
the story is good and told well
i an enjoying the series

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Great book

Great book intrigue and espionage and battle you can imaginw yourself in the warhammer world

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Amazing

loved it
head phones on and painting in the Studio what can be better

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Great listen and a great story

I hope the rest of the series is as good as that as I couldn't stop listening

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Amazing cliff hanger!

Extremely well written, descriptive to a point that I had a film playing in my head, amazing!

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Good but short

A continuation of the beast arises series, this book and the one that follows feel like two half's of the same book. Story lines get left hanging unsatisfactorily with one major event each book to justify its publication. On the whole the series is quite enjoyable if a little short. The narration is good and easy listening, occasionally jarring when multiple characters voices are in play or when they are acting outside of their usual tone of voice.

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Opinion after 3 books

Overall, the story is solid with some great politicking chapters that really flesh out the background but it is let down by the combat scenes and length of each book.

As mentioned above the story is solid enough and still being built upon by book 3. I am interested enough in the plot to want to continue the story.

The politicking chapters are great and really flesh out the imperium and how changes that happened at this time led the imperium to what it was in the 41st millennium.

Sadly, I think these book have the same issue that nearly all black library and 40k books have, the battles are awful (from the point of view of wanting something with detail). The battles are quite often bland, sterile and vague. Land battles are especially vague affairs that can last days in the world time.

I don't know if the writer/writers have military experience but from the way the scenes are portrayed I would guess not. Little things such as having to tell 'elite' soldiers to load a magazine of ammunition or not telling 'elite' soldiers why they have to eat or something bad could happen.

Another issue is the length of each book, although they are of a fantastic quality they are very short for what they cost. At between 5-7 hours each they should really be have them doubled up to make them worth the cost.

Should you get them....

If you are a 40k fan with a desire to explore an imperium in a new era of history and enjoy black library's style of battle narration then this series may be for you.

If you like 40k but don't care too much for the battles or era then I would probably skip unless you can get the books on a 2 for 1 sale.

If you aren't a 40k fan I would probably skip as for me a lot of the enjoyment of the books was seeing how things have changed in the background. You can get better and longer books out there in another sci fi setting.

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