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Sons of the Hydra

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Sons of the Hydra

By: Rob Sanders
Narrated by: Tom Alexander
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An Alpha Legion Audiobook

In the hostile universe of the 41st Millennium, where allegiances are ever fickle, few of the Emperor’s sons are more difficult to understand or predict than the Alpha Legion.

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It's a story about the sneakiest and most oblique of traitors, written by Rob Sanders, master of the twisty-turny tale. It's sure to make your head spin…

THE STORY

Branded traitor since the Heresy, the motives and actions of the Alpha Legion have always been shrouded in mystery. Alpha Legionnaire Occam the Untrue leads his warband out of its hunting grounds in the Maelstrom on an epic quest for salvation, not just for himself, but for his whole Legion. With the forces of the Inquisition snapping at their heels, Occam and his followers must use all their guile and considerable martial prowess as they make their way to the cold heart of the galaxy, to a confrontation that no one, least of all Occam himself, could have foreseen.

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best lies have a spark of truth, and this book has many lies to disassemble

we are Alpharius

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Alpha Legion are my personal favourite legion and this book honours them very well while making the Redacted their own. Would recommend for Alpha Legion fans.

Hydra Dominartus

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First title for me by Rob Sanders and first time hearing Tom Alexander as narrator. Both are to be commended, excellent book and Tom is the best narrator I’ve heard! His talent for voicing characters is unmatched.

5 star 40K book

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Overall I would say this book is great for the world of 40K, it has the grim dark, it has people dying, it has oppressive governments and overbearing supervisors and that’s all well and good. But truthfully it is not a very good Alpha Legion book, a good Alpha Legion story has the characters make up a incredibly convoluted plan which involves none of them actually doing any fighting, its literally all proxies. A good Alpha Legion book has a leader that’s absolutely insane and yet brilliant, able to come up with schemes that run laps around the Imperium then do a backflip and do the same to chaos. And finally a good Alpha Legion book focuses on a warband of more than six marines, I mean really? I’m all for focusing on a few characters rather than a broad roster of barely fleshed out ones but you could’ve had some running around in the background just to make the scene more lively, six is just sad. Of course you could make the argument that the author did this to show how far the Alpha Legion has diverged from itself back in the Horus Heresy and how far it’s fallen from its legion state. But there is a point where you realise you’re just reading an Ultramarine book in a lighter shade of blue. Again, overall not the worst Alpha Legion book I’ve ever read but far from the best.

Not the worst Alpha Legion book I’ve ever read

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Cool characters with interesting ideas for renegade space marine motivations. Both the Alpha Legion and Word Bearers get a good spotlight on their beliefs and doctrines. Main protagonist and side characters were all very unique and I really enjoyed all their interactions with each other. The twist at the end was awesome but it kind of does the same trick twice in the story. Also some of the voices for characters sound a bit too similar. Still a great story for both new and current Alpha Legion fans.

Somehow made the Alpha Legion even cooler

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