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Good, story overall, a bit too fanboyish

Reviewed: 10-24-23

The book was overall enjoyable, but I felt that it was exalting the Ultramarines a bit too much (I did not feel it this strong in previous books in the series). But we have good action, multiple types of enemies and interesting characters, so overall it's an enjoyable book.

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Not just for Dark Angels fans

Reviewed: 05-07-23

The book was a blast, one of the best I've read, enjoyed every minute of it. It's smaller in scope than most 40k books, but ads so much to the current setting. It's especially great in showcasing the relationship between the Lion and his Fallen sons. Especially loved how the lore is extended on what has happened at Calliban.

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A great glimpse into the Great Crusade.

Reviewed: 06-25-22

This book, more than anything, makes me crave a book series set during unification and the Great Crusade.
My only gripe is that the narrator used the same voice for young human boy Sigismund and veteran astartes Sigismund, but it did not bother me too much.

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Buy this if you have nothing else to listen to.

Reviewed: 08-15-20

I had nothing else to listen to when I bought this. Overall it was a good distraction while doing chores but it is far from the greats of Black Library.

Keep in mind that this book is basically a narrative advertisement for the Indomitus box released at the same time.

Characters: The difference between the personalities of the three main space marine characters (who are all supposedly Ultramarines) felt strange at times. There were points were I felt I was listening to a Deathwatch book with characters from different chapters talking. Then the necrons. The overlord is simply put an idiot, the destroyer lord is acting as you would expect from a killing machine bent on ending all sentient life. The plasmancer had some interesting things going on, but the royal warden I think is not even worth mentioning.

The story had interesting elements (what the necrons are doing with the warp, which if it is taken further in the lore could cause some interesting situations) but that's it.

Narration was not terrible, but average at max. The necron part could've used some robotic distortion for effect, but that's on production, not the narrator.

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Better than expected

Reviewed: 01-29-20

Due to the name, and the fact that it came out around the time tbe simmilar boardgame did, I expected non-stop action from start to finish.
Instead I've got a story with lots insight into the Imperial Faith, interaction between space marines and primaris marines... and actual Word Bearers who I did not find annoying.

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A good Deathwatch story

Reviewed: 06-15-19

I enjoyed the story, it had a nice look into the workings of the Ordo Xenos, and the Deathwatch.

There are a few repeated lines due to mistakes but with a 16 hour runtime, it's barely noticable.

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