Mephiston: Blood of Sanguinius

Mephiston: Warhammer 40,000, Book 1

By: Darius Hinks

Narrated by: Richard Reed

Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's summary

A Blood Angels audiobook.

A religious civil war brings the Blood Angels, commanded by Chief Librarian Mephiston, to a shrine world where they find a mystery that might help Mephiston understand how he survived the Black Rage - and perhaps cure the Blood Angels of their affliction.

Listen to it because:

Delve into the curse of the Blood Angels and how Mephiston survived it, while also exploring notions of faith and the influence of the Emperor on the Imperium of the 41st Millennium.

The story:

The shrine world of Divinatus Prime has become lost to the light of the Astronomican, and no ship can piece its veil. Only the Lord of Death himself, Blood Angels Chief Librarian Mephiston, has any hope of discerning the fate of this once pious world. After enacting a powerful blood ritual, Mephiston and an honour guard of his fellow Blood Angels reach the stricken shrine world to find it seized by religious civil war. Each faction fights for dominance of a potent artefact, the Blade Petrific, said to be wrought by the Emperor Himself. Yet there is more at work here than a mere ideological schism, for Mephiston believes Divinatus Prime could offer answers to how he became the Lord of Death, he who resisted the Black Rage, and possibly even a way to end the curse of ‘the Flaw’ in all Blood Angels.

Written by Darius Hinks.

Narrated by Richard Reed.

©2019 Games Workshop Limited (P)2019 Games Workshop Limited

I Love Mephiston!

A great story and well read. This is why The Black Library is so good!

Excellent story

Great for 40K and especially Blood Angels fans. One of the greatest heroes of the Blood Angels in his own story. Excellently actors

Love this!!!

40k blood angels have the best narrative stories in my opinion. I can’t wait to hear more of this amazing story.

Hinks is pretty good

Darius Hinks is the author. I have never read any of his work, and having concluded this novel, I would certainly be willing to give him another shot.

Although the beginning of the novel was unnecessarily long, the set up was necessary one way or the other.

Blood Angels are a beloved chapter, and Mephiston is a very popular character. The book however could have been accomplished in 21 instead of 26 chapters.That is as long as they are the chapters at the end, and not the chapters at the beginning.

The overall plot and story are both adequately nuanced and enjoyable.It does not lack for action by any means, but because the nature of the main character is one which revolves largely on psychic power, it seems to lack some of the visceral punch of normal space marine literature.

Note however it is not because the author lacks the ability. The author expresses more than adequate ability to bring home the visceral realities of the grim darkness of the 41st millennium.

The reader is generally very good, yet there are some irritating mispronunciations that bothered me occasionly throughout the story.

It seems as though the book had some curious editing. Some minucia was left in quantity whereas some very helpful information could have been left in or it seems as though it were excised.

The central struggle of the main character is never really resolved in any clear way. This does not mean that we should always get a clear resolution to a problem, but it is more that the Central challenge was kind of forgotten until the last few pages, where it was hand waved away.

4 out of 5 seems a good rating. I bought the book because of the main character. It could have been shorter, But the quality of the writing towards the end of the book was such that the reader did not want to stop the book.

Excellent

a thrilling ride through the Grimdark. I usually listen while falling asleep but I stayed awake the entire time. oh well, who needs sleep anyway?

worth every moment

amazing telling. I could almost see everything that was transpiring. brought the characters to life

Good, but...

Good story overall. I was a bit disappointed with mephiston"s character development as he's a 1 dimensional Mary Sue. If his attitudes and were better characterized I could have enjoyed it more, instead he came across like batman. Always 2 steps ahead of every other character with no decerable reason for why. His flaw is slowly killing him, but it isn't doing anything permanent to the story, its just something to make him seem even more complicated when he isnt. I felt more could have been done with him.

All Hail The Blood Angels

What a great listen and a amazing new to look at the blood angels Wow.

Mephiston is unreal

loved every minute of the story, I can not wait for the next book, purchase it, you won't regret it.

Black Rage!

This was a fantastic book, definitely should be a movie! I was finding it hard to follow at first but once the scene was set I was hooked.