Mephiston: Blood of Sanguinius

Mephiston: Warhammer 40,000, Book 1

By: Darius Hinks

Narrated by: Richard Reed

A Blood Angels audiobook.

A religious civil war brings the Blood Angels, commanded by Chief Librarian Mephiston, to a shrine world where they find a mystery that might help Mephiston understand how he survived the Black Rage - and perhaps cure the Blood Angels of their affliction.

Listen to it because:

Delve into the curse of the Blood Angels and how Mephiston survived it, while also exploring notions of faith and the influence of the Emperor on the Imperium of the 41st Millennium.

The story:

The shrine world of Divinatus Prime has become lost to the light of the Astronomican, and no ship can piece its veil. Only the Lord of Death himself, Blood Angels Chief Librarian Mephiston, has any hope of discerning the fate of this once pious world. After enacting a powerful blood ritual, Mephiston and an honour guard of his fellow Blood Angels reach the stricken shrine world to find it seized by religious civil war. Each faction fights for dominance of a potent artefact, the Blade Petrific, said to be wrought by the Emperor Himself. Yet there is more at work here than a mere ideological schism, for Mephiston believes Divinatus Prime could offer answers to how he became the Lord of Death, he who resisted the Black Rage, and possibly even a way to end the curse of ‘the Flaw’ in all Blood Angels.

Written by Darius Hinks.

Narrated by Richard Reed.

©2019 Games Workshop Limited (P)2019 Games Workshop Limited

not great

good 40k story but thought the story was a bit thin , seemed to drag a bit in the middle but not bad

I Love Mephiston!

A great story and well read. This is why The Black Library is so good!

Excellent story

Great for 40K and especially Blood Angels fans. One of the greatest heroes of the Blood Angels in his own story. Excellently actors

Maybe my expectations were too high going into this one...

About myself, I’ve played Games Workshop games for 15 years or so and really enjoy the 40k setting and lore. After starting to collect Blood Angels I though it would stoke the fire in me to learn more about the chapter and it’s epic heroes.

This book just putters along with a mostly boring plot delivered from the perspective of cardboard grunts with very little depth

Mephiston has a couple fun scenes but mostly this novel is a snoozer.

I understand it’s a challenge to write space marines but GW did it much better in the early Horus Heresy novels.

Voice actor was mostly good but occasionally would do these over the top crazy person voices that were quite jarring and seemed to cause the audio to be much louder each time he switched voice.

Love this!!!

40k blood angels have the best narrative stories in my opinion. I can’t wait to hear more of this amazing story.

Terrible Narrator

The worst narrator I’ve ever heard. Sounds like a Disney character. Disappointed. I thought it would be better

Great Story Telling

Absolutely love they added the black library books now. Its a hugh collection that I dont have the resources to read and store all these books. Each one is fantastic with great imagery

the voice for Mephiston

in the battles I like how the reader read faster and with more emotion to draw you into the battles

Great story, slow start

Great story and character building, very very slow start, if you can manage thru the first 2 hours then it will start to get going.

Good, but...

Good story overall. I was a bit disappointed with mephiston"s character development as he's a 1 dimensional Mary Sue. If his attitudes and were better characterized I could have enjoyed it more, instead he came across like batman. Always 2 steps ahead of every other character with no decerable reason for why. His flaw is slowly killing him, but it isn't doing anything permanent to the story, its just something to make him seem even more complicated when he isnt. I felt more could have been done with him.