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Shadowsun: The Patient Hunter
- Warhammer 40,000 Characters Series
- Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Summary
A T'au Empire Audiobook
Commander Shadowsun is an ice-cold military genius – but will her patient stratagems be enough to protect all she holds dear from the Death Guard's infectious touch?
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See an iconic t'au hero tested like never before, as she strives to confront a horrifying Legion empowered by eldritch forces beyond her logical understanding.
THE STORY
Commander O’Shaserra, better known as Shadowsun, is an ice-cold military genius celebrated across the Chalnath Expanse. She is the master of the stealth battlesuit assault and the Kauyon metastrategy – a philosophy of war that emulates the Patient Hunter. But how to lay a trap for the Chaos-worshipping warriors of the Death Guard, whose ancient technology allows their fleet to rip holes in space? And how to deal with their daemonic patrons, who defy the laws of physics and shatter the logical methods that Shadowsun holds so dear?
With her forces spread far and wide on the dark side of the Great Rift, Shadowsun must respond to a surprise attack on the Startide Nexus wormhole portal. Worse yet, as hidden atrocities and treacheries are laid bare, the threat of civil war simmers between the t'au and their allies.
If she is to stand a chance, the t'au's finest commander will have to improvise, trust to instinct, and face the unnatural echoes of her empire's own dark secrets.
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- Guillermo
- 24-05-23
A great addition to the T'au novels
It is fantastic to get another T'au novel, and made into audiobook form. Finally we get to know Shadowsun a bit more through her point of view, and a lot more details on the T'au ally races. Great choice of voice actress too; very refreshing to hear a female narrator and appropriate to the story!
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- Paul Karoubas
- 14-09-23
Damn solid 40k book
I was surprised at how well this came out. Shadowsun was an enjoyable protagonist, they were able to make her something more than 'the loyalist who hates Farsight'. Disagree with past reviews: the voices all worked well.
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- Ben
- 24-08-23
Enjoyable listen
This was an enjoyable listen about the tau would recommend for anyone who like the Tau
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- Phil
- 17-04-23
Couldn't stop listening.
Great book and expands on the lore in ways I didn't expect. loved it.
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- paul sparks
- 04-04-23
Shady Shadowsun
I have to admit to really enjoying this story, I have read all Phil Kelly’s Tau books and this is a great addition, I did feel that certain parts stretched disbelief such as the raid on the Death Guard ship, a few intriguing loose ends …. The aforementioned ship stranded in the warp hole and the Goddess of the Tau Va?? What the actual F…….
On a negative point the narrator was a poor choice, she made Shadowsun sound like a panicked teenager not a Tau war leader and her interpretation of Death Guard !! Noooooo
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- J Mitchell
- 19-01-24
Best Tau Book Yet
I'm working my way through the Tau books currently and I found this far better than the Farsight books. There seemed to be more to it than just 'Tau Commander throws themselves into another fight'.
The evil side to the 4th sphere and the learning the Tau are doing about the warp is fascinating.
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- Sean n.
- 27-11-23
the creation of the Tau Va god
great book the only thing that was irritating was that GW seem to be ripping of lf small gods by Terry Pratchet, basically if you believe there is a god well there is and in this book they seem to poke it into 40k lore a bit randomly
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- Roberto
- 24-08-24
Well worth a listen
it's a modern setting book (post rift), that covers some events relevant to the Psychic Awakening sourcebook 'The Greater Good'.
It looks at some of the tensions between the Tau of the 4th sphere and 5th sphere and their allies against the back drop of the Psychic awakening and a Death Guard threat.
The most interesting things with the Tau are how they treat allies and seeing them figuring out how the universe works. We got a bit of both here.
The Death Guard, whilst not my thing, got a good showing too.
Yes, there are a couple of battles but it felt the right balance rather than something that sucked space away from the actual plot. It helped that in one fight the focus was the characters and their interactions and not the mechanics or the physicality of the fight.
Finally, the author, something or a mainstay and loremaster at GW (like Gav Thorpe) does seem to have his haters. This seems often be presented as the writing not being the desired manifestation of their knowledge and ideas. Personally, I have no complaint here.
For a BL novel I'm giving it 4.5/5
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- Matt Edmonds
- 11-04-23
Great change of perspective
40k settings and characters can get more than a little repetitive and derivative. While this is not the greatest story in the setting, it is a refreshing change of pace and characters and pulls you along quickly and though some great action.
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- Cameron
- 03-06-24
Started Strong
the story used quite a few deux ex machina and felt like it was aimed at younger audiences than other 40k novels.
I really didn't like the power of friendship and prayer at the end.
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