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The Rose in Darkness

Warhammer 40,000

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The Rose in Darkness

By: Danie Ware
Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
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An Adepta Sororitas Audiobook

Sister Superior Augusta of the Order of the Bloody Rose and her squad find themselves battling a Genestealer Cult with its claws under the planet’s skin – and racing to prevent the arrival of a Tyranid Hive Fleet.

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Sister Augusta of the Order of the Bloody Rose returns in a new Adepta Sororitas novel and must fight to prevent one of the Emperor’s own favoured worlds from becoming prey for the Tyranids.

THE STORY

Opal is a gleaming shrine world of saints and soldiers, beloved of the Emperor Himself. Sent to retrieve the skull of the revered Saint Veres, Sister Superior Augusta of the Order of the Bloody Rose and her squad find themselves in the midst of the capital’s holiest festival, a time of reverence and celebration. But all is not well – despite what its planetary leaders would have Augusta believe, political danger bubbles under the surface, and rebel attacks gnaw away at the city’s outskirts. The greatest threat, however, is yet to come.

As it becomes horrifyingly apparent that a Genestealer Cult has its claws under the planet’s skin, the Sisters realise that can mean only one thing: a hive fleet is on its way to Opal, bringing with it the planet’s doom.

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This book is misguided in its clear bias, painting the Children of the Four Armed Emperor in the way Imperial Propaganda would have it told, ignoring the divine mission of the Claw to deliver the biomass the people of Opal waste in worshiping their false idols to the Great Devourer as it seeks to cleanse the galaxy.

In spite of this, the author has told a good story, showing they know the lore and can tell a good tale, weaving in real-world themes to a 40k novel which make this a well-written book. The story is compelling and exciting, having a good flow.

Where this book is let down is in the performance, beginning and ending with a confused struggle of accents which vary depending on which side of the river a character lives on, adding hemispheres of accent to a strip of water. It is given the variance members of the cult have developed in this telling that the people of Opal were unaware of the Claw as members of their community took on thick heft accent changes as they prepared for ascension. This makes it one to read rather than listen to.

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The performance is great but the overall story was so dull , it felt like they spent 3/4 of the time describing how they felt and a quarter on what was actually happening around them which made the over all story very hard to fill in the world around them

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