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Lelith Hesperax: Queen of Knives

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Lelith Hesperax: Queen of Knives

By: Mike Brooks
Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
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A Warhammer 40,000 Drukhari Audiobook

Lelith Hesperax is the Queen of Knives – the greatest of Commorragh's wyches, and the deadliest gladiator in the galaxy. Now she returns to the Dark City, to slice her way through tangled webs of deception...

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Follow the legendary grand succubus as she finds herself dragged back to Commorragh and enveloped once more within the twisted plots of Asdrubael Vect.

THE STORY

In the darkest corners of the webway lies the city of Commorragh. Home to the sadistic drukhari, millions are butchered upon its arenas’ sands to slake their terrible thirst for blood. The greatest of these butchers is Lelith Hesperax – the Queen of Knives, and the deadliest gladiator in the galaxy.

Lelith abandoned the Dark City to walk alongside the nomadic death cultists of Ynnead, and in her absence from Commorragh, pretenders to her blood-soaked crown have arisen.

When a blade strikes at Lelith from the shadows, she is pulled back to Commorragh, and into the murderous games of the Living Muse himself – Asdrubael Vect. As his schemes coil around her, the Queen of Knives finds herself ensnared once more in Vect’s terrible web, and this time, mere blades may not be enough to cut her free.

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Everything about this was just lovely to listen to. Narration added an amazing gravity

Absolutely fantastic

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Overall pretty damn good. did not overstay its welcome and great realization with the characters.

Good Voice Acting And Character Realisation

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it is a good view of the aeldari race from the perspective of the murder-hobos side while keeping it relatable.

a good read and has Votann lore too

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Brooks has been a bit of a wanker with his DEI stuff lately. This book did have a garbage they/them moment, but the rest of the book was great.
It’s so good to finally have some Yvraine content.

Great new Eldar content.

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An awesome story with fantastic narration hopefully we’ll see more Lelith stories in the future. Definitely recommend listening.

Absolutely fantastic

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Great performance from Beamish, spectacular writing from Brooks.
This is a must-read/listen if ever there was such a thing.
Brooks is quickly establishing himself as one of Black Library's best.

Exactly what it needed to be.

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iI never really liked the Drucharii before when first learning about them but after Da Big Dakka got me interested this book has done an amazing job of hooking me in. They are so inhuman and terrifying yet at times painfully relatable and the politics of the city are fascinating.

Short but sweet, Mike Brooks impresses as always.

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Reading a lot of sci fi, and loving Warhammer, I was excited to this. While there are some cool scenes, the short story moves slow and is quite repetitive. Yes, I get it, the Dark Eldar are awful. Why am I reminded of this fact by telling rather than showing every second paragraph?

Average and a bit bland

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girl boss slapping vect around, the story was a modern Hollywood classic, if you love rings of power you would love this

girl boss with plot armor as thick as space marine arms

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Story takes a little while to get going, but I enjoyed the glimpse into the life of Lelith and Commarragh politics. There is a particularly heavy emphasis on fight scenes (of varying quality) but it was fun to have a female main character for a change, and I appreciated the themes of sisterhood towards the end. I think they could've pushed the themes further, but it was an enjoyable if not mind-blowing listen

Good for a 40K Novel

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