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The Emperor's Gift
- Warhammer 40,000
- Narrated by: Christopher Kent
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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Summary
A Grey Knights Novel
Two aspirants are recruited into the Grey Knights, and must hone their psychic talents if they are to join the hallowed and mysterious ranks of the Space Marine daemon hunters.
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It's a deep exploration of the Grey Knights and the events surrounding the First Armageddon War... including an appearance by the fearsome Angron, daemon primarch of the World Eaters.
THE STORY
The Grey Knights are all that stands between humanity and the ravages of Chaos. Since their secretive beginnings during the Horus Heresy, these legendary Space Marine daemon hunters have journeyed into the dark realms of the warp – and beyond – in pursuit of their supernatural enemies. Through an intensive regime of psychic training, new recruits are brought to the clandestine fortress of Titan to join the hallowed and vaunted ranks of the 666th Chapter.
More than ever, these legendary battle-brothers must be vigilant and ever ready to defend the Imperium – for the forces of Chaos are never truly defeated, and Armageddon beckons.
Written by Aaron Dembski-Bowden. Narrated by Christopher Kent. Running time 12 hours, 28 minutes (approx).
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- Lertimo
- 14-08-23
Great audio treatment for an old fave
The Emperor's Gift was first published by Black LIbrary in 2012. This Grey Knights romp is an old favourite of mine, and I was nervous to see it appear in audiobook with a narrator I didn't initially recognise - given the recent less-than-stellar performance of some new Black Library narrators. At any rate, I needn't have worried. Christopher Kent's delivery of every space marine line in this audiobook is as marvellously deep, rich and throaty as anyone could wish. In fact, so impressed/relieved was I that in the first few minutes, I might have jumped out of my seat and actually shouted 'Holy sh*t that's a proper &%&^ing space marine voice!' (which earned me some funny looks as I was sitting in traffic on the M4 at the time).
The story itself is as dark, amoral and well told as you'd expect from Aaron Dembski-Bowden, with his trademark quality characterization. Its certainly got nothing to do with the blurb from Black LIbrary ("Two aspirants are recruited into the Grey Knights, and must hone their psychic talents if they are to join the hallowed and mysterious ranks of the Space Marine daemon hunters") This is pure nonsense. I really wonder sometimes if the person who writes Black LIbrary blurbs ever actually reads the books themselves.
The plot has held up well in the last decade and it dovetails with events in the lore and other books, including one of the interminable wars for Armegeddon, the recent Angrom novel, and even the Ravenor books. The only reason this isn't a 5/5 for story is that I feel that ADB does his best work when working with the truly dark side of grimdark and I wouldn't quite put this up there with the Black Legion novels that (for me) are his best work.
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- Slaine_james
- 17-11-23
Grey knights and the wolves
Great winding story of brotherhood and two factions caught in politics and egos. Great audio book
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- Clive
- 05-09-23
The Grey Knights even have to chill out sometimes
This was a great read, well performed and structured . Nothing ground breaking but the scale of ranks and power levels are well done when the fighting happens and when it doesn't the right level of drama is enacted. No good guys here only grey (pardon the pun).
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- Jonatan czop
- 21-10-23
Gray kings have it rough
One of my personal favorites. this book made me understand and apriciate those dudes from Titan. and like wolf's even more. First part of the book was kinda mid but following half telling the story of Months of shame is god tier.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-02-24
Awesome piece of lore!
Must listen if you like wolves or grey knights. Awesome story delivered superbly! Few moment made my eyes tear up and had goosebumps. Would highly recommend!
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-09-23
This is good one
There’s a description of a relic warrior coming before the Inquisition which is worth the price of the audiobook
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- Mr. Christian Miller
- 25-10-23
Brilliant
Great narration, fascinating insight into the Grey Knights and Space Wolves. Recommended for all 40k fans
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- Lou
- 13-11-23
I love this book
fantastic representation of the Grey Knights and the Space wolves, I highly recommend this for anyone who wants to explore how these factions interact within the imperium
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-06-24
truly great
Did not expect to like it as much as I did but from the writing to the acting it was really great.
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- william coyne
- 31-08-23
Absolutely Outstanding
It has been a long wait for this on Audible; I read the hardcover on it’s release.
Listening on Audible, it truly is one of the finest Space Wolf books written.
It tells a tale from the Grey Knight’s perspective but the real heroes of the piece are the Wolves.
Audible/ the Black Library need to have Christopher Kent read ALL the Space Wolves books; this man truly gets them, Grimnar sounding like Cerdic the Saxon by Stellan Skarsgard in King Arthur.
If you want to start a journey with either of the two chapters in this book, there is no better place to begin than with this book.
Cannot recommend it enough.
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