Listen free for 30 days
-
The Dark City
- Vaults of Terra: Warhammer 40,000, Book 3
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
The Dark City
Buy Now for £29.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
Summary
Vaults of Terra Book 3.
Separated from Inquisitor Cowl, Interrogator Spinoza hoists her crozius and sets to protecting what’s left of their organisation while continuing her quest for truth. But can she survive the dire straights she finds herself in, as she guards humanity from enemies within and without?
Listen to it because....
Luce Spinoza comes into her own, with the weight of her lord’s fate sitting heavy on her shoulders, while pushing forward with their mission. With enemies closing in on all sides, she must choose a path for herself.
The story:
The Throneworld is in turmoil, wracked by the opening of the Great Rift and the failure of the Astronomican. Inquisitor Erasmus Crowl, his mind and body ravaged by what he has seen in the Hollow Mountain, is missing, taking with him the clues to the conspiracy that has come to obsess him. Luce Spinoza, his interrogator, must choose whether to seek him out or defend her diminished realm from the many forces that still seek to destroy it. As enemies circle, Interrogator Spinoza enters a race against time to find the evidence she needs. But with the fate of humanity itself hanging in the balance, she must decide what lengths she is willing to go to in order to uncover the truth.
More from the same
What listeners say about The Dark City
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- paul sparks
- 29-07-22
left me wanting more!
Which I guess is what Chris Wraight always does when he writes a book, this could be the end but I hope not, it does make me wonder if Fabius Bile would ever try and do what the Archon wanted to do in this book… I mean Abaddon does have the talons of Horus and his blood is on them ……. 😱
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Balder
- 13-04-23
Bittersweet
A decent ending of the trilogy. Did not expect it to finish quite like this, but such is the life (and death) in the universe of WH40K.
Narrator was perfect as always.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Half Price Mario
- 07-03-23
Escaping the shadow of book 1 -
Getting a but saucy now, some decent stakes and relational progress.
Where are we going now!?
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- marcom
- 17-02-23
Absolutely masterful
Of the dozens of warhammer books I've listened to, this is one of the best by far.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 23-01-23
Brilliant
Right up there with Eisenhorn this one, fantastic intrigue and a tense ending. Death and destruction, hate the xenos filth :)
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 06-01-23
Great end to the trilogy
John Banks' narration at it's best in this one, and the story is brilliant
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Komerade Snowflake
- 18-12-22
on par with the Eisenhorn trilogy
Well read and bold within the lore. highly recommended trilogy for fans of the 40k books
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance3 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- MR R J HALL
- 05-12-22
Entertaining and good listening
If you like the genre, you’ll like this. Not formulaic, good characters, all in all a good listen.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Sean Blicher Marschall
- 22-11-22
Epic!
A grimdark Inquisitor detective trilogi. I loved it and with an ending promising even darker things to come.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story3 out of 5 stars
- A young man
- 15-11-22
Its okay
I find it the weekest in the series...and ultimately a letdown at the finish line...
With that said i still enjoyed a lot of it.
The world building and exploration of the world is worth the read alone, but I found the story and character motivations a bit muddled and weak.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story3 out of 5 stars
- Consumer
- 09-08-22
Why
I really enjoy listening to 40k novels as they flush out the universe. This story added nothing though it raised an issue that has been around since at least 5th edition and everyone finds out in a strange way at the end. Spoilers:
Then everyone dies the end
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story2 out of 5 stars
- TJ
- 06-08-22
Takes a bit
Two thirds of this book sounds like an AI wrote it. I could complain about it, a lot, but I'm tired. Things don't get interesting until the final 4 hours, but wooo does it get better.
The retinue was always the worst part of the series, and that's the bulk of the book here. The plot is probably the worst of the three books. The shining star has always been the setting, which doesn't get it's due until the end, but it's fun.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall2 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story1 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 16-06-23
Pointless
I feel worse having listened to this. it solves nothing, invalidates the previous two books completely, and offers nothing to the greater universe.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- The Foxes
- 12-08-22
Good story / bad ending
It takes forever to actually get to the point, and then when it gets to the point it just suddenly stops. So it's a classic Warhammer book.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Zomgdudewithnub
- 28-07-22
Another Great Vaults of Terra Story...
The story was kind of weird for me since I spaced out near the end of The Hollow Mountain. I don't know if its just me, but the start of this story plays out like the Confused Mr. Krabs meme, and the world finally stops spinning when all the main characters finally figure out what is going on. My timeline is all messed up since the events in the series aren't in order. I figured the title was eluding to something underground in the hive citys on Terra, but I was wrong. I enjoyed the plot on Luna and the segway back to the Custodians. Hopefully there will be another book to finish out this series of events.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 26-07-22
Not Bad
It was a good listening if you like this genre. Especially if you are in the car and stuck in the traffic, recommend!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story2 out of 5 stars
- John C Simmons Jr
- 08-08-23
But...why
The story completes the Vaults of Terra trilogy but does not satisfy. For the majority of the book, we follow the interrogator and she has a solid growth arc, but you have to look hard for it. The pace is jerky but it makes sense at the end. I suspect the jerky pace was an attempt to throw off and frustrate the reader just like the story did to the main characters. Finally, there is a time and place for a scorched earth policy to a story and this was not it. The ending is abrupt and makes the whole series almost useless. This could have been an important opening salvo to the new direction of the universe, but it falls flat and is only very, very loosely connected to snippets of the overall universe.
It has been said in another review, but spoiler
Everybody dies. The epilogue gives a false sense of hope just to crush it in the last paragraph.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- James Blazevic
- 03-08-23
No happy endings in 40k
And so the journey closes in 40k with a fitting conclusion. Huge lore drops in this story with implications that I hope come to fruition eventually
I am gonna miss hearing about this little entourage with the end of this trilogy
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall2 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story2 out of 5 stars
- Derek te Groen
- 02-06-23
Good but the ending was a letdown
The first 2/3rds of the book was fantastic, and then the last half just felt the the writer put himself into a corner and made one of the biggest letdown’s in the series.
I was very disappointed by the ending of the book.
The reader as always did a fantastic job at reading out everything, giving each character a voice to the best of his abilities that was unique.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story3 out of 5 stars
- Steve M
- 17-04-23
Disappointing End
like most I'd say I'm pretty disappointed in the end of this book, it's not great and extremely unsatisfying. I really did get sucked in and attached to these characters and the end is just a big cop out. It's almost like the book was written and then they had to re-write the ending quick and dirty because GW resurrected a primarch and shook up the imperium narrative.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!