By the Blood

this book was good! It was will read ans welk written.
Only question left: wtf did Mephiston strode off to?

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Endlich

Edit: Nach bald 3 Monate haben sie es endlich geschafft die fehlenden 50 Minuten einzubauen und es ist nun möglich das komplette Audiobook zu genießen;) 5 Sterne

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Blood Angels, Flesh Tearers... Tyranids!

wow... that was an epic book! i wish there were more books about Blood Angels/Flesh Tearers! :) awesomely written and perfectly voiced - i need mooooaaaaaahhhh!!!

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Super story!

This was a great listen if you love the world of warhammer and even more so the blood angels!!
You can listen to this alone but after reading Dante I enjoyed it a lot more.

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Important but lengthy grim dark story

The story describes a quite important event in the more recent 40k timeline which already kind of makes it worth the read/listen.

As one might guess by the books title, its main content is about battle and destruction.
While this is quite typical 40k stuff, I personally tend to find it such ones a bit boring - "mind-numbing" as some lore master might say. No real character development, few compelling dialogues, little change of scenery.

Having said that, I generally like Guy Haley's books. Before this one I read Dante which I thought was excellent. However, The Devastation of Baal just never quite grabbed me like the previous work did.

Admittedly, the author attempts to make the story more interesting by interweaving several subplots which illustrate the events from different perspectives, zooming in and out of the picture and also connecting to the greater plot unfolding in the galaxy, i.e. the opening of the great rift.
He includes some good dialogues, minor character arcs and also gives some interesting insights into the organization and functioning of the Tyranid horde - even writing from their point of view at times.
However, to me personally, the overall story still felt a little dull and dragged-on. Not all of the side plots were equally interesting. Some plots and character arcs (if one might call that) just seemed filler to me. Also the connection to the events on Cadia felt a little forced.

The narrator does a solid job. I found some of his renditions of certain characters a bit difficult to relate to but overall I liked his interpretations.

Summing up, Devastation of Baal has more depth than a generic bolter-p* story, but there are definitely more interesting books in the 40k universe than this one. Compared to other works of the author, I found it rather mediocre.

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that was bad

so many potentially epic stories solved in one sentence or two. nothing of the grandeurs you'd expect. Dante's fight with the swarm lord. the space battle. 1st book I am really disappointed about. the explanation of how the hive thinks is very good though

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Writing is mediocre

I love science fiction and really liked the CATACHAN DEVIL. Sadly THE DEVESTATION OF BAAL is written in a style and rythm, which is not bad, but very basic and doesn‘t transport the vibe at all.

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Average Space Marine Story

Although the story may be an important point in the history of the empire of mankind, the story itself is not written that thrilling. It is more like a average, may be slightly above average Space Marine story. There is a lot of contemplating and raging. And a lot of fighting. But it lacks the rhythm or the timing of better stories.
The artist reading is OK, but I do not like his interpretation of the Space Marines. The all seem to mumble and grumble, where the grumbling might be OK hence the inhuman stance but mumbling is something I do not associate with Space Marines.
So the story was OK, although to in my opinion a bit to long.
The reading was OK too.
It's not wasted money, not at all. But it's not something I'll hear again very soon.

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Abomination

this whole book is an excuse for Garbage Marines being introduced to the Blood Angels, it serves no other purpose, it’s not telling a story relevant anything, nothing changes other than everyone being replaced by Garbage

At some point it is being discussed why the tyranids are coming to the dead, toxic, barren cluster of worlds that surrounds baal and its moons. It’s suggested that the swarm is out for revenge, which is nonsensical in the first place and gets dropped the next moment.
This, for me, this is the Autor self inserting himself to tell us that there is no in-universe reason for the events of the book to happen and that’s there’s no other logical way to basically wipe out the Blood Angel+ successor chapters and instantly replacing them with Garbage Marines.

In old canon, there was nothing more important for BA than tradition and heritage. With this book it basically gets wiped out but Dante is like: „nah, it will be fine“. Who the fck is this pretender hiding behind the death mask of Sanguinius and what did he do to Dante??

In the words of Gabriel Seth: ABOMINATION

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Imperator ex machina

The laziest ending ever. What a shame. The protagonists actions mean nothing and at the and space magic saves the day. A huge disappointment

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