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  • Warhammer 40,000
  • Written by: Mike Brooks
  • Narrated by: Tom Allenby
  • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (241 ratings)

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Brutal Kunnin'

Written by: Mike Brooks
Narrated by: Tom Allenby
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Publisher's Summary

An Orks novel

When Ufthak and his orks attack the forge world of Hephaesto, the last thing they want is to share the spoils with the notorious Kaptin Badrukk. But with armies to defeat and loot to seize, Ufthak's boyz might just need Badrukk's help - though that doesn't mean they can trust him....

Listen to it because: get into the heads of a band of orks in the first-ever novel from their point of view. Discover what it takes to be part of the Waaagh! and carve out your own little piece of glory amidst the mayhem in a novel that's brutal, kunnin' - and darkly hilarious.

The story: Ufthak Blackhawk and the green tide descend upon Hephaesto - an Adeptus Mechanicus forge world bristling with loot - only to find it already under siege by the notorious Freebooter Kaptin Badrukk. When his warboss, Da Biggest Big Mek, orders temporary co-operation, Ufthak seeks to make a name for himself by crushing some of the Imperium’s most advanced defenders and claiming the greatest prize. But with a sinister new war machine on the horizon, Badrukk’s plotting and a thoroughly annoying grot in his way, Ufthak is going to need the brutal kunnin’ of Mork himself just to survive. 

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WAAAAGH

Most entertaining 40K by far. Loot it while you can for Gork and/possibly Mork!

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Zooking good!

The voice acting was realy nice. I was able to disern all character by sound. Writing is really funny, all the descriptions were unique. I wish it was longer !

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Green is best

Green is best, If you came looking for a Krumpin good time wit da lads this is the book for you, Don't worry about a heavy lore dump or overly long monologs. There is a good balance of talkin to Krumpin.

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wog

finally a story told from the perspective of the Orks where the imperial forces are more petty than honorable. The narrator pronounces "waaaagh" with a hard G though.

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  • Jon
  • 2023-01-07

Great story!

It was very funny. The story barely had a dull moment. I would recommend to any ork fans!

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overall not a bad book

this was my first Ork focused book and it wasn't terrible.
I enjoyed the contrast in the story between the Orks and the mechanicus.
the Orks are just the best comic relief in the grin dark future.

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A proppa orky book!

A super fun book with plenty of orky charm! the mechanicus parts may not be what your looking for, but they help break up the ork parts and make them all the better.

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Hard to keep interested

The voice acting is absolutely perfect the story however is lacking. Hard to finnish this book. I was expecting a book 100% from the view of the orks but found out after listening to it that a substantial part follows the Mechanicus. A little disappointing honestly.

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surprisingly fun

It's actually pretty awesome. I didn't expect a book featuring an Ork point of view to work so well. They really come across as the "good guys" somehow, to the extent that any faction in the 40K universe can be considered "good". It's fast paced, the narration is well done, there were unexpected plot twists, and the ending was satisfying.

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By far the most entertaining 40k book I’ve tried

If you like 40k this is a good book to start with.
I’ve tried a couple and found them too dry, but the orks are dumb fun and the ad mech characters are likeable.

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  • L. L.
  • 2020-09-17

Zoggin Good Scrap with de Boyz!

Listen up ya git! This here was a zoggin good time, there was at least 5 good scraps to listen to. Maybe more, but countin past 5 is hard. Ze boys delivered all the dakka to the stinken 'umies and their tin cans. There was krumpin, stompin, zappin, but even betta, was the WWAAAAGHHHHH!

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  • Jared
  • 2021-01-06

Ad Mech Fanfiction

As an ork player I struggled to enjoy this book. what was advertised as a book about orks from the ork perspective actually turned out that they barely toe into the limelight. Uftak and his boyz serve as the backdrop to a story about introducing and launching Ad Mech protagonists and their story about internal politics amongst the mechanicus and how overly capable the "good guys" with dealing with orks and the heretical corruption. Honestly ork narrative is about 30% of this book. It is like the author wanted to pine about admech but GW Publishing was like "ok but write about orks first." What we get is a defiant piece of literature where orks are barely and shallowly represented and used as a vehicle to Kickstart a book series about a tech priest and her Sicarian sidekick as they effortlessly survive and defeat any enemy that comes their way. Jesus, even Uftak struggled in his personal melees against named admech characters. Seriously disappointed. The narration didn't help in the slightest as they made the orks sound like incompetent, bumbling stooges and the delivery felt like I was reading a teenager's fanfiction.

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  • M. Elliott
  • 2020-09-28

meh

Story was ok. was expecting it to be told solely from the perspective of the orks, not multiple sides. The acting of the orks was sub par. To quiet, not enough dakka!

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  • Jacob Ingle
  • 2020-09-30

Amazing story!

If you're an Ork fan and you haven't listened to this then you're missing out.

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  • Morten Sandø
  • 2020-09-29

As orky as it gets.

oh and there is some mechanicus things happening from time to time. Truly a orky story with orks being orky. what more can you ask for?

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  • Kmccutch
  • 2020-09-27

A fun romp with some flaws

First of all, I enjoyed this book a lot. It was fun and funny with serious moments spaced out well. However, this book was advertised as focusing on the ork perspective. Upon listening, it was only about one third to one half, with the rest of the actual plot and meaty story happening to the mechanicus and lurking enemies there in. The ork perspective you get, feels like a Mary Sue with everything going too well.

It is, however, a fun listen with a good reader. Has problems, but is good.

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  • Blake D.
  • 2020-09-26

Fantastic the best laugh ive had all year

This book is fantasic full of orky nough wots and adeptus mechanicus gits. The performance iz proppa and da story iz a good un.

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  • CR Smyth
  • 2020-11-20

great but needs more Ork

Wish there was just a few more chapters around the Orks instead of humies

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  • Charles E Valdyke
  • 2020-11-10

OI YA GIT!

Diz 'ere iz a proppa story, wiv plenty uv 'onest Ork ak-shunn, givin da humies a solid krumpin'. Da parts about da humies ain't so bad ei'vur, even if dey iz a bit squishy, but da humie mek boyz is also made uv metal, so I guess dey ain't as squishy as uver humies, just not as tough as beakies. Any whatsit, youz is gonna luv da Orky bitz, even if da voice dat iz doin da talky bitz on your story box sounds a bit funny at first.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 2022-02-25

Could have been much better

The story had a great deal of potential to be a fun Ork based novel. However it's a little too heavy on the AdMech which is turn is a bit dull.

Also, the strange way the author refers to certain single characters in plural is extremely confusing, to the point where I had to re-listen to parts to try to figure out what was actually happening. Calling a single character "they" or "them" doesn't make sense. At first I thought it must be a typo that the narrator chose to read but it's consistent and annoying!

The narrator gets an "E" for "effort". He is clearly skilled but is not the right person for the job. The humans sound fine but his "Ork" voices just don't sound right.

I gave this a low score because I'm more then half way through and I'm not sure I'm interested in finishing it.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 2023-01-13

Approuved by Gorkz ans morkz !

An épic and fun story revolving around a lots of orks and the mechanicus, with good balance