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Ahriman: Exile

Ahriman: Warhammer 40,000, Book 1

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Ahriman: Exile

By: John French
Narrated by: Mark Elstob
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Book one in the Ahriman series.

Cast out of his Legion, the sorcerer Ahriman, who condemned the Thousand Sons to an eternity of damnation, plots his return to power and the destruction of his foes.

Listen to it because: experience the beginning of an epic, time-twisting saga of revenge, betrayal and attempted atonement. John French takes the Ahriman you know and love from the Horus Heresy in new and interesting directions, making him both deeply sympathetic and thoroughly evil.

The story: all is dust.... Spurned by his former brothers and his father, Magnus the Red, Ahriman is a wanderer, a sorcerer of Tzeentch whose actions condemned an entire Legion to an eternity of damnation. Once a vaunted servant of the Thousand Sons, he is now an outcast, a renegade who resides in the Eye of Terror. Ever scheming, he plots his return to power and the destruction of his enemies, an architect of fate and master of the warp.

Written by John French. Narrated by Mark Elstob.

©2020 John French (P)2020 Games Workshop Limited Fantasy Fiction

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Reader fakes voices to the point of annoyance eg the navigator. Compared to other voice actors reading for Black Library.

Forced and annoying voices

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Some of the voices just didn't work. Almost didn't finish it. Won't be continuing the series anytime soon

Narration was hard to get through

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It's a bit rubbish to be honest, the story is boring and the performance is even worse, Marks Elstob voice just doesn't sound right for this type of title, I was really looking forward to the audio book, but it just didn't work for me and will not be rushing back for a second listen to soon, it a 3 out 5 book at best.

Not that great

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It’s alright, I found it not very gripping though, a bit boring. Maybe the next books will be more action packed as the story is now set up. There are few annoying voices but not to bad. Just a bit meh all round.

A bit meh,

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I've read this trilogy of books and consider them to be average at best with a few decent plot twists and character arcs. However. the narration on this book kills it for me. The characters sound like pantomime villains and have excruciatingly nasal voices. I honestly found it hard to take the story in and struggled to finish this. The recent choice of narrators for Black Library novels seems to be very lacklustre and ill-thought out. It simply didn't suit this type of story.

Mediocre

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I really enjoyed the story, it paints very colorful pictures of battles, scenes and characters. The narration is great, it has emotion, the actor's normal voice is enjoyable. The part that sucks is the voice acting. Ahriman's voice is a bit annoying, with a hint of "scheming villan" forced into it. The female techpriest's voice makes you want to claw your ears out. The overacted "Gollum-like" tone of one of the chaos sorcerer is unbearable. Why are you trying to imitate echoing or reverbing voices instead of adding digital effects? Some additional voice actors would have solved these issues.

Awesome story with some bad voice acting

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Entertaining but the narrator is really awful.

I won't be continuing the series after this one.

Awful narration

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This book is awesome!
Not only does it give a rare look into what life is like for those who have fallen to chaos (it’s not fun) but it also follows one of the most interesting anti-heroes in the 40k universe. There is a good mix of action, sorcery and betrayal. If you loved the thousand sons novels and wondered what happened next, look no further. This book is so, so good.

A note about the narrator:
Audiobooks can live or die on the strength of their narrators.

I’ve listened to almost all the 30k/40k audio books now and I have to say that Mark Elstob ranks up there with veterans like Toby Longworth and Johnathan Keeble. I really enjoyed his character voices - he’s got the chaos sorcerers and the fallen space marines to a T. I am looking forward to his reading of the rest of this series!!

A Gem

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Shows Ahriman as more than a two dimensional character, explaining his contradictions and his desires.

Great introduction to Ahriman

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Not a huge fan of thousand sons tales and when I have read or listened to stories of Ahriman they have been during the Horus Heresy and I prefer him as was not as is, what lifts this book to a higher level is the narration, Mark Elstob is simply outstanding and I probably would have given up on this book but for him narrating

Good story Great narration

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