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  • Priests of Mars

  • Forge of Mars: Warhammer 40,000, Book 1
  • Written by: Graham McNeill
  • Narrated by: Joe Jameson
  • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (62 ratings)

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Priests of Mars

Written by: Graham McNeill
Narrated by: Joe Jameson
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Publisher's Summary

Book one in the Forges of Mars series.

An Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator fleet ventures beyond the borders of the Imperium in pursuit of arcane technology. Who knows what perils may lie outside the dominion of mankind?

Listen to it because: it's a novel like nothing else from Black Library. Graham McNeill crafts a tale that only he could tell, beginning a mind-bending saga of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Chaos and more besides.

The story: legend tells of a foolhardy expedition, led by the radical Magos Telok, that ventured out into the unknown space beyond the Halo Worlds in search of the 'Breath of the Gods' - an arcane device with the power to unmake and reshape the very stars themselves. Thousands of years later, the ambitious Lexell Kotov musters his Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator fleet and sets out to follow in mad old Telok's footsteps. With the might of the Imperial Guard and the Space Marines to augment his own forces, he searches for the hidden clues that will lead him to greatest power that the galaxy has ever known. But who knows what ancient perils may yet lie outside the Imperium and the dominion of mankind?

Written by Graham McNeill. Narrated by Joe Jameson.

©2021 Games Workshop Limited (P)2021 Games Workshop Limited

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This was deep for me because Mecanicum.

Knew nothing about Mechanicum, And the humans tell the story. Templar and Invigilatus! 0mnisiah indeed!

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feels incomplete but still very nice story

Very neat story, but the end feels like it's only the prelude to another book.

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A classic in the making

well written, entangling, and a flowing story with twists and turns touching across a few different aspects of the imperium and showing how they flow together in real tim

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fun one

I liked the end. made me want to buy the next one.
gotta love the mechanicus

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its hard to track the story

To be completely honest I can't tell if Roboute Guilliman is in this or not

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Great mechanicus book

Very good book, both in writing and reading. Almost every single part of the book is fascinating.

Until it started about eldar. The few moments in the book are written alright by any metric, I just really hate eldar. Especially in my mechanicus book. I don't care. Still don't care. I. Don't. Care.

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Not bad for 40k Sci fi

Probably would have given some 3.5 stars, but Priests of Mars is good enough to round up. Story might have had a few too many characters or jargonny filler sections using abstract "Sci fi science" language. Some was good, other parts felt over the top.
The middle act with the female magos Linya and her father really droned on and had me considering dropping it, but it was kept alive by the struggles of Abraham, which were horrific. Although it meandered, I do want to see where this story leads.
Voice acting was well done, but some of the accents and voices felt out of place or were too similar to each other. In other places the voices were nearly perfect, such as the machine mind in the third act.

Overall enjoyable, and I look forward to Lords of Mars

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Starting a series but not much of it's own

The performance is good and technically everything is fine there but the story is lacking. Clearly it is building to a series of novels but this novel is weak on its own.

It's the mile wide but and inch deep foundation.

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One of my least favourite

Out of the hundred plus 40K audiobooks I have this one is one of my least favorite, firstly I do not like the narrator the voices that he uses just don’t fit some of the characters especially the space Marines. Also the story isn’t very good either, there are several points that conflict with established lore and it was a tedious book with a very disappointing ending. I would ONLY recommend to someone who is a die hard adeptus mechanicus fan, if you are looking for a solid 40k Story I would look at another book.

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Boring

Its just talking and talking. Nothing happens for the first like, 5 chapters… wtf. No thanks.

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