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The Master of Mankind

The Horus Heresy, Book 41

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The Master of Mankind

By: Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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While Horus' rebellion burns across the galaxy, a very different kind of war rages beneath the Imperial Palace.

The 'Ten Thousand' Custodian Guard, along with the Sisters of Silence and the Mechanicum forces of Fabricator General Kane, fight to control the nexus points of the ancient eldar webway that lie closest to Terra, infested by daemonic entities after Magnus the Red's intrusion. But with traitor legionaries and corrupted Battle Titans now counted among the forces of Chaos, the noose around the Throneworld is tightening, and none but the Emperor Himself can hope to prevail.

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This next installment of the Horus Heresy is unmissable! More insight and depth is given to the Emperor and his works than any previous book in the series. His efforts and sacrifice, and those of the Custodes, Silent Sisters and Mechanicum are given light. Gripping from beginning to end! Coupled with narration by Keeble at his best, this audiobook is brilliant!

Absolutely Gripping

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Didn’t expect this. I don’t know what to say. The most intense book so far. The pacing was excellent. The vast scale I still can’t wrap my mind around what happened. I’m going to go cry in a corner now that it’s done

Horrifyingly brutally glorious and sickening

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Every minute of this novel was awesome. It was read supremely well and kept me hooked.

A fantastic listen

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I like the part where the big E does the thing, it's pretty neat right

Big E swings his Big D

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An epic of the series. The scale and drama of it all has blown me away. Easily one of the best in the series.

Simply amazing.

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great book and well performed by the reader. definitely a must read for 40k fans

fantastic in all senses

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For a story about the defence of the gateway to Terra I guess I expected more. I found the story to be meandering, repetitive and at times confusing.

I guess I expected more

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I’ve listened to a lot of the Horus Heresy novels and more and more I am drawn to the Aaron Dembski Bowden books. The story and characters are engaging and detailed. I find myself looking up and cross referencing details to fill in the over arching lore and there is always something new. Like a secret revealed to only me. Fun stuff. Anything narrated by Jonathan Keeble is spectacularly entertaining. His commitment to developing individual characters is a delight.

This is a really good one!!!

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I found it a bit vague at times. Not a great deal of dialogue in comparison to a Dan Abnett novel, which I prefer (imo). AD-B does write a lot of narrative description but the vagueness of it at times I found to be not as enjoyable as the interactions between the characters.

That said, it was great to have more details about the webway project. Just lamentable about what happened, interesting to think about what might have been.

A good story. Most 40K fans will really enjoy it.

Keeble excellent performance. great to have insight into the webway project and the CF that it became.

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Definitely one of my top 5 HH books with interesting look into the sister of silence and the custodians with well written battles. Jonathan Keeble as always makes the characters memorable and brings them to life.

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