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The Swords of Calth
- The Chronicles of Uriel Ventris: Warhammer 40,000, Book 7
- Narrated by: Bruce MacKinnon
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
A Uriel Ventris novel.
Uriel Ventris returns! Newly ascended to the ranks of the Primaris Space Marines, Ventris leads the Ultramarines Fourth Company - the famed Swords of Calth - to war against the ancient necrons. Old enemies arise, as Ventris' past and present collide in brutal battle.
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One of Black Library's longest-running series continues - and the hero's been given a new lease of life as a Primaris Space Marine. Discover how Ventris adapts to his new life even as his past comes back to haunt him.
The story
Uriel Ventris, newly ascended to the ranks of the Primaris, leads warriors of the Fourth Company from the Indomitus Crusade of Roboute Guilliman to a world on the frontiers of Ultramar. Once a battleground against the orks, Sycorax is now under furious assault from an enemy of ancient times - the necrons. The Ultramarines have faced these baleful xenos before, but Uriel senses the hand of a foe from his past at work on Sycorax, a tally unfinished and a debt to the Imperium finally come due.
Trapped deep in a devastated city, Uriel leads the Swords of Calth into battle, and must adapt to his new incarnation as one of the Primaris - a challenge that will test his soul as much as it will test him as a warrior.
Written by Graham McNeill. Narrated by Bruce MacKinnon.
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- Amazon Customer
- 23-07-21
So so like all the Vetris stories
The story is okay, but what let's it down is the narrator. He did a really good job with the chaos side in the last book, but he always make space marines sound like cheesy action movie heroes
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- James
- 12-04-22
Excellent story, odd narration
Absolutely excellent story. Only downside was the narration. I found the volume to be very quiet at times, often having to rewind, turn it up, and then get deafened when the narrator spoke normally again. Otherwise really enjoyed it.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-04-22
Great, but
Great story. love the necrons. but too many characters too keep track off. it's really hard to get emotional invested in about 10 space marines ,5, humans, 2 mechanics and some others still. took me about 6 hours to figure out who was who. also the captain constantly keeps talking about how good of a friend his Sargent is. this should be more of a case of show don't tell. got quite sick of it in the end. besides that. Good action and gripping story
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- paul sparks
- 01-03-21
Worth reading
But I can’t recommend the narrator, there was some unpleasant comments made last year about Mark Elstobs narration of avenging son and in particular how he read Roboute, I personally enjoyed that book and have listen to this Nightbringer so had hoped the narrator would improve when reading ultramarines and their Primarch sadly it sounds like a bunch of petulant teenagers who have found a dictionary which really distracted from the story itself
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- Conor Goulding
- 27-09-21
A middling story but a powerhouse performance
The story is a pretty generic story of conflict with space marines with little impact beyond the world it is situated on but the narrator's performance is really fantastic
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- Michael Alcock
- 24-11-21
I don't know what happened here
was not the best story was pretty dull and necrons written as horde like poor quality imperial troops to die en mass barely scratching paint also seems that the writer has C'tan and warp beings mixed up and the fact necrons tech is not so dumb as to miss a titan teleporting into its cities a C'tan cannot be called a pussy and be killed lol they also do not control the necrons life they are slave tools or destruction a dying C'tan is like losing a titan war machine not the leader of an entire planet lol
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- Reilan94
- 29-04-21
Fan of Ventris? Read it!
I've been waiting for another Ventris book and I am not disappointed! gripping and you feel for the characters. Well worth it!
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- jonathan
- 07-08-23
To soft
The voice is to soft for this book, but the story done is done well and and the voice actor is good and the many different voices even if they are a little sort for a world a war.
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- Steffan
- 31-10-23
Nice next chapter - irritating reading
It’s great to have another chapter in the story of these characters, but the reader makes frequent irritating errors. It does make me wonder if a sound engineer was actually present when recording or if this was done solo in lockdown.
Saying words like ‘escape’ as ‘ex-scape’.
Mispronunciations like that happen frequently and became irritating quickly.
Frequent ‘hyper-corrections’ took place within the accent too. Implying an accent that is put-on rather than natural to the reader.
Saying things like:
Plastic - as: pl-ah-stic
Transhuman - as: tr-ah-nshuman
Individually these are minor but the frequency throughout the book made it nonsensical at times and breaks immersion.
A spirited attempt, but a swing and a miss for me.
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- harryboy
- 15-01-24
loyalty love kinship
From the first volume of the series to this the seventh I have loved the story of Uriel and Pasanius' relationship, their undying respect and trust never failing even in the most inhospitable of places. But also Uriels way of honouring even the lowest human who had sacrificed themselves to save their brothers and sisters bought me to tears more than once. A true roller coaster ride throughout.
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