Ahriman: Exile

Ahriman: Warhammer 40,000, Book 1

De: John French

Narrado por: Mark Elstob

Book one in the Ahriman series.

Cast out of his Legion, the sorcerer Ahriman, who condemned the Thousand Sons to an eternity of damnation, plots his return to power and the destruction of his foes.

Listen to it because: experience the beginning of an epic, time-twisting saga of revenge, betrayal and attempted atonement. John French takes the Ahriman you know and love from the Horus Heresy in new and interesting directions, making him both deeply sympathetic and thoroughly evil.

The story: all is dust.... Spurned by his former brothers and his father, Magnus the Red, Ahriman is a wanderer, a sorcerer of Tzeentch whose actions condemned an entire Legion to an eternity of damnation. Once a vaunted servant of the Thousand Sons, he is now an outcast, a renegade who resides in the Eye of Terror. Ever scheming, he plots his return to power and the destruction of his enemies, an architect of fate and master of the warp.

Written by John French. Narrated by Mark Elstob.

©2020 John French (P)2020 Games Workshop Limited

Excellent!

This story was awesome! The narrator did a great job and I can’t wait to finish the rest of the series

Verg good book let down by VA

Really enjoyed the story, but the VA makes the main characters sound like sniveling cowards.

Good but a little hard to follow

I love chaos characters and Ahriman is no different. This story really gives you an idea of who he is after the events of the heresy and the Rubric. John French knows the thousand sons better than most I think.

The narrator is not someone I'm a huge fan of but he really gave it his best in this story. Good work Mr. Elstob

Brilliance

Excellent performance! Brilliantly written! Highly recommended! was gluing together a new thousands sons combat patrol while listening to this whole book!

Performer's mouth noises

The microphone is picking up the performer's mouth sounds crystal clear, but I have to turn it up to hear what he's saying. which makes the swallowing, wet sounds even louder. I wish his voices were a little less crazy sometimes, but I do appreciate that he gets into it.

I'll say it's good, but I have issues with this one.

I've listened to roughly 60 or so 40k novels over the years, and have found many that I loved and a few that I don't think I'd recommend again. This one is solidly in the middle for me. I don't say this because the author does something I do not like, but more of the lack of smooth transition at times from place to place, moment to moment. Not the worst, but was a bit jarring at first. I'd give story over all a solid: 7/10

Now...this is what broke me here and made this a slow listen: the narrator. The voices chosen for Ahriman took me far too long to associate as him in moments. The supporting characters that follow along are nearly the same voice, and made it terribly confusing to distinguish at times who was who. Then there is the one voice....You'll see. 6/10

Would I listen to another novel done by this narrator? Sure, this is just one moment. Overall his performance was great, minus the driving characters. Would I continue the series? Maybe, I can't say that I wouldn't be willing to listen. I know this is a long review, but this one needs some explanation if you're bothered by certain types of voices....like daemons....or computers....

Overall: 7.5/10 Plenty of room to grow. Compelling story beats. Great understanding of the character.

A great tale ruined by an annoying voice actor

It took me a while to listen to this one because I couldn't take this guy's voice work for more than a few minutes at a time. I would have rather read the book for what his idea of drama induction and demonic representation. The story itself was classic Warhammer 40k

amazing writing for a mysterious man

ahriman has always been my favorite warhammer character and this book series does well by him

too soft at points

whispering during some dialogue... not the best if there is any other noise. but good story

Great story, terrible narrator

Mark Elstob should never be allowed to narrate for a novel again, he completely ruined my experience of this book.