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Ahriman: Sorcerer

Ahriman: Warhammer 40,000, Book 2

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Ahriman: Sorcerer

By: John French
Narrated by: Mark Elstob
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Book two in the Ahriman series.

Ahriman, greatest sorcerer of the Thousand Sons and architect of the Rubric that laid his Legion low, continues to walk the path towards salvation, or damnation. Searching for a cure for his Legion, he is forced to consider - was the great ritual somehow flawed from the very beginning?

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This is the second part in the tale of one of Warhammer 40,000's most notorious villains. The Ahriman series explores the motivations of this dark sorcerer in greater depth than ever before. Horus Heresy fans will also find plenty to enjoy as the story harks back to events of this great civil war, particularly the fate of the lost Book of Magnus.

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Ahriman, greatest sorcerer of the Thousand Sons and architect of the Rubric that laid his Legion low, continues to walk the path towards salvation, or damnation. Searching for a cure for his Legion, he is forced to consider - was the great ritual somehow flawed from the very beginning? The answer may lie within the mysterious artefact known as the Athenaeum of Kalimakus, a grimoire of forgotten knowledge that is reputed to contain the exact words of the lost Book of Magnus...or, perhaps, even a transcription of the primarch’s deepest and most secret thoughts.

Written by John French. Audiobook narrated by Mark Elstob.

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Just as Planned

Really enjoying this series, lots of Tzeentchian scheming, all coming together to a satisfying conclusion. Excellent narration as well.

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jumps around

the narration was excellent and the editing also good, unfortunately the story itself jumps between scenes far to often, but it's made 10x worse as there is no announcement of the shift. You'll hear a conversation between 2 characters, then another conversation which you assume is related, just to work out 30 seconds later the scene had shifted.

if reading the printed book, you'd see this, it would be marked as a new secrion - but with an audiobook they need to insert some announcement of location, in other 40k audiobooks they have, but some reason failed to with this one.

it made the 75% of the book extremely difficult to follow!

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it was alright

It was ok in terms of the story but the performance was superb. well done Mark Elston

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Not a bad story, but nog great either

This book continues upon the first novel's good and bad elements. I like the description of living in the Eye of Terror (through vastly preferring The Talon of Horus for that), more Thousand Sons is always good. But the storyline about the Space Wolves is tiresome and unbelievable, 'combats' are still unreadable pagelong processes like 'the universe slowed to a crawl. Sorceror A split his focus into three and unmade every incoming bullet.'. The power level of the sorcerors can't be guaged and features a lot of plot armor. Parts of this story are more enjoyable, thought I found the characters less enjoyable.

But my biggest problem with this audiobook is the way the narrotor voices Ahriman. I disliked it severely and even though our protagonist really isn't featured in every chapter, I disliked the parts where he was.

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The performance and the reading couldn't have been better. Each character has a distinguishable voice and personality brought to life with Mark Elstobs reading.
The story is fine, easy enough to follow and plenty for the minds eye. I felt that the story is stretched amongst such a cast of characters that I didn't feel as connected to them in the first book. Deaths don't hold weight and the twists don't feel sharp or surprising. The books namesake character is also - I felt - noticeably absent.
However it is an above average story with an excellent reader. B-

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Missable

Not an essential part of the lore and the performances were cluttered as the scenes switched without warning, very confusing. Didn’t enjoy this.

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Painful

This was disappointing, lacklustre, slow and quite frankly painful to listen to, the first one was better and having listened to a lot of the audiobooks from Black Library I’m know they can do better.

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Hard to follow with lacking performance

I'd skip this one, unless you're dying for whatever Thousand Sons scraps you can find

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Garbage

Ahriman should be a great character but the writing in this book is so dire I ended up skipping chunks of it just to get to end.

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the voice actors horrific posh English as ahriman was a complete turn off

voice actors ahriman voice was shocking. Why he is a posh tory I'll never know. Terrible decision.

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