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Blood of the Emperor

By: Graham McNeill, Nick Kyme, David Guymer, Andy Clark, Mike Brooks, Chris Wraight
Narrated by: Christopher Tester
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Publisher's summary

A Primarchs Anthology

Explore the histories and motivations of the primarchs across six short stories that will take you to the depths of the Cthonian Utterdark, the wilds of Fenris in winter, and even to the holy soil of Terra itself.

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Get new insights into several of the primarchs in tales set across the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy.

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A weak Cthonian boy forges a bloody destiny among the stars. Tribal warriors hunt a beast in the Fenrisian snows. Prosperine sorcerers seek hidden secrets. The Emperor's Praetorian shows his ruthless side. Alpharius submits to questioning over a brutal campaign, and Mortarion returns to Terra for the first time since his ascension to daemonhood.

Each of these six tales provides you with a new look at one of the primarchs, the demigod sons of the Emperor. Once brothers-in-arms, these legendary heroes fell into war and strife, loyalist and traitor. But each remains a mighty lord of warriors and leader of men, and each has tales to tell…

CONTENTS

Lupus Daemonis, by Graham McNeill

Skjalds, by Nick Kyme

The Sixth Cult of the Denied, by David Guymer

The Will of the Legion, by Andy Clark

Council of Truth, by Mike Brooks

Terminus, by Chris Wraight

©2023 Games Workshop Limited (P)2023 Games Workshop Limited

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The voice acting is amazing!

If you need to scratch that grim dark itch it's got some good stories these are made even better by the narrator. Great performance!

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Worth the time, but nothing new

It's a day-in-the-life collection. Adds some good detail, but doesn't add anything new about the Primarchs. The performance is great and the stories don't drag at all.

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amazing narration

the stories were good but not amazing, however, the narration was truly sublime. I cannot stress enough how much I hope he does more for the Black Library

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Best narrator of all time.

I will buy any Black Library book Christopher Tester narrates. I have never listened to a Horus Heresy book before, but now I think I will start. I have listened to many 40k books, but Christopher Tester’s narration was too good to resist and has pulled me into this new area of Warhammer.

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Enjoyed the whole thing good job Christopher

Some of the stories were okay a few where pretty good mainly listened for the va Good job on first book Christopher so proud

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Hit or Miss Stories, Great Narration

The stories range from great to middling but Mr. Tester really brings them to life

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Christopher Tester greatest Narrator of all time?

Absolutely love all of the 40K audio books some are better than others. One thing i can say with all of my conviction is Christopher Tester should receive the lions share of Narration duties. Absolutely amazing.

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A wonderful book with a wonderful performance.

A great collection of short stories in Horus Heresy timeline. I genuinely enjoyed Christopher Tester's narration and hope to see him return to more Black Library books in the future.

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Great narrator

Good stories great narrator, I would like to hear more of him in the future.

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A wonderful collection

A wonderful collection of stories that really help show or a Space Marine thinks and how people think of them. Also the narrator was incredible. An absolutely stunning performance.

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