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Ahriman: Sorcerer
- Ahriman: Warhammer 40,000, Book 2
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Summary
Book two in the Ahriman series.
Ahriman, greatest sorcerer of the Thousand Sons and architect of the Rubric that laid his Legion low, continues to walk the path towards salvation, or damnation. Searching for a cure for his Legion, he is forced to consider - was the great ritual somehow flawed from the very beginning?
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This is the second part in the tale of one of Warhammer 40,000's most notorious villains. The Ahriman series explores the motivations of this dark sorcerer in greater depth than ever before. Horus Heresy fans will also find plenty to enjoy as the story harks back to events of this great civil war, particularly the fate of the lost Book of Magnus.
The story:
Ahriman, greatest sorcerer of the Thousand Sons and architect of the Rubric that laid his Legion low, continues to walk the path towards salvation, or damnation. Searching for a cure for his Legion, he is forced to consider - was the great ritual somehow flawed from the very beginning? The answer may lie within the mysterious artefact known as the Athenaeum of Kalimakus, a grimoire of forgotten knowledge that is reputed to contain the exact words of the lost Book of Magnus...or, perhaps, even a transcription of the primarch’s deepest and most secret thoughts.
Written by John French. Audiobook narrated by Mark Elstob.
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- Martin M.
- 23-07-21
Ahriman: Sorcerer ( book 2 ) review
The performance and the reading couldn't have been better. Each character has a distinguishable voice and personality brought to life with Mark Elstobs reading.
The story is fine, easy enough to follow and plenty for the minds eye. I felt that the story is stretched amongst such a cast of characters that I didn't feel as connected to them in the first book. Deaths don't hold weight and the twists don't feel sharp or surprising. The books namesake character is also - I felt - noticeably absent.
However it is an above average story with an excellent reader. B-
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- Anonymous User
- 01-04-23
Not a bad story, but nog great either
This book continues upon the first novel's good and bad elements. I like the description of living in the Eye of Terror (through vastly preferring The Talon of Horus for that), more Thousand Sons is always good. But the storyline about the Space Wolves is tiresome and unbelievable, 'combats' are still unreadable pagelong processes like 'the universe slowed to a crawl. Sorceror A split his focus into three and unmade every incoming bullet.'. The power level of the sorcerors can't be guaged and features a lot of plot armor. Parts of this story are more enjoyable, thought I found the characters less enjoyable.
But my biggest problem with this audiobook is the way the narrotor voices Ahriman. I disliked it severely and even though our protagonist really isn't featured in every chapter, I disliked the parts where he was.
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- Freddie Grose
- 11-11-23
Just as Planned
Really enjoying this series, lots of Tzeentchian scheming, all coming together to a satisfying conclusion. Excellent narration as well.
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- Josh
- 23-08-21
it was alright
It was ok in terms of the story but the performance was superb. well done Mark Elston
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- Kelv1n
- 25-04-21
jumps around
the narration was excellent and the editing also good, unfortunately the story itself jumps between scenes far to often, but it's made 10x worse as there is no announcement of the shift. You'll hear a conversation between 2 characters, then another conversation which you assume is related, just to work out 30 seconds later the scene had shifted.
if reading the printed book, you'd see this, it would be marked as a new secrion - but with an audiobook they need to insert some announcement of location, in other 40k audiobooks they have, but some reason failed to with this one.
it made the 75% of the book extremely difficult to follow!
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- Reluctant
- 09-03-22
Painful
This was disappointing, lacklustre, slow and quite frankly painful to listen to, the first one was better and having listened to a lot of the audiobooks from Black Library I’m know they can do better.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-11-21
Missable
Not an essential part of the lore and the performances were cluttered as the scenes switched without warning, very confusing. Didn’t enjoy this.
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- Mikko
- 31-05-22
Hard to follow with lacking performance
I'd skip this one, unless you're dying for whatever Thousand Sons scraps you can find
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- David E
- 06-08-23
Garbage
Ahriman should be a great character but the writing in this book is so dire I ended up skipping chunks of it just to get to end.
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