Dead Sky, Black Sun

The Chronicles of Uriel Ventris: Warhammer 40,000, Book 3

By: Graham McNeill

Narrated by: Bruce Mackinnon

A Uriel Ventris audiobook.

Exiled Ultramarines Uriel Ventris and Pasanius venture into the heart of the Iron Warriors’ fortress-world in search of atonement – but will they find anything but horror and death?

Listen to It Because

Explore the Iron Warriors' fortress world in the Eye of Terror through the eyes of exiled Ultramarines Uriel Ventris and Pasanius. Dark technology and even darker magic combine, and Ventris meets an enemy who'll haunt him for a long time to come.

The Story

Exiled from the Ultramarines Chapter by Marneus Calgar, Captain Uriel Ventris ventures deep into the dreaded Eye of Terror to atone for his disgrace. There, Uriel must unleash the Emperor's vengeance upon the followers of the Dark Gods and bring His divine light to this area of darkness. But a far more terrible foe dwells within these worlds of insanity: the ancient Chaos Space Marine Legions. With dishonour behind him and certain death ahead, Uriel must gather every ounce of courage if he is to survive and regain his honour!

Written by Graham McNeill. Narrated by Bruce Mackinnon.

©2021 Games Workshop Limited (P)2021 Games Workshop Limited

the YouTube videos of the daemonculaba was more gory than the actual story

the daemonculaba wasn't as gory as most nurgle books. only the knowledge of it happening to women and the horror of the flesh camps happening to people with just a sliver of sanity left after the ordeal.

despite knowing what the horror would be, the story was still good and the voice actor was good as well.
the build up of gradual disgust made it so that it was hard to point out which part was the goriest...
the characters in the book was great and that it follows what happened in the iron warriors book at the siege of hydracordatus(?) was just splendid :)
great book. give it a shot if you're going to read the Uriel Ventris books anyway.

Great performance, very weak dialogue

Almost every character is a 2d cutout. The villains are Snidely Whiplash and the heroes are Dudley Doright and Simple Jack. The dialogue is quite weak and hammy at best. The true brilliance of this work is the world building of Medrengard and the inner workings of a Chaos fortress on a daemonworld. There's some really slick and sick concepts in here. Graham McNeill seems to be a George Lucas type with weak dialogue and character logic but mind bending world building. This isn't Abnett but it has its moments.

Bruce Mackinnon does his best with what he's given here but it must have been challenging to voice without a laugh.

I enjoyed it.

That was fun. The ending was surprising and made me laugh. I look forward to seeing if Captain Ventris and his friends stay together.

Old w40k are great, but roughly wrotten

The Ventris books are all very entertaining, but this really does hearken from a time when little to no effort was put into the books. The writing is poor, bordering on laughable, at points. but it is really interesting to see how they used to think about the lore. there was a silliness and joy in these older books that is almost completely lacking from the grimdark that has in recent years.

Twists and turns

Packed with gore and action, just the way a Warhammer story should be. The emperor protects!