Renegades: Lord of Excess

Warhammer 40,000

By: Rich McCormick

Narrated by: Richard Reed

Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

A Warhammer 40,000 Audiobook

The Emperor’s Children seek sensation above all else, but when Xantine's warband come upon an isolated Imperial world, he sees an opportunity to pursue the finer things in life. How long can the proud warlord maintain his 'perfect' rule – and will the planet survive his reign?

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It's a tantalising look into the gleefully twisted minds of the Emperor's Children, as an arrogant warlord strives to 'save' an Imperial world from its own imperfections.

THE STORY

Once a united Legion, the disparate splinters of the Emperor’s Children now eke out a violent, hedonistic existence between the stars, raiding and ravaging worlds to indulge their fathomless appetites.

Xantine, proud leader of the Adored and a true son of Fulgrim, wants more than simply pillaging backwater worlds. He soon finds what he has been searching for – Serrine, a wealthy but cruel planet festering under misrule and inequality, cut off from the Imperium by warp storms. It is too tantalising a prize to ignore, and Xantine sets out to bring perfection to his new world.

But perfection is an elusive concept, and as threats creep from the depths of Serrine and the ranks of the Adored, the rot at the heart of Xantine’s perfect rule is laid bare...

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Excellent narration, pedestrian storyline.

The narrator carried this fairly bland story to its conclusion. In fairness, it was fun to see the Tyranids pitted against the Emperor’s Children.

Solid book but too long

Was a good book but it was much longer than necessary. Great voice acting as always. Story was solid but stretch on at parts. Characters were cool but some of them disappear halfway only to reappear for the very ending.

Solid 4-star

Fun book with references and appearances of characters we love from the Emperors Children. The moments of demon and tyranid insight are the peaks of the book for me. Conclusion was written on the wall for any vet of 40k so the ending wasnt 4-star, more like 2. Would read if youre like me and want to consume background material for any faction. Would not read if youre looking for a mini-series or if you are a fan of other Emperors Children protagonists.

Holy hell this book is good!

Love this book! The Emperors Children rocks hard 😁 Awesome look at the inner workings of the third legions workings and a set of characters that's not boring 😊

An almost perfect story

I don't really believe in perfection, it's just a recurring line from the book. I really enjoyed this one and its narration. My only complaint was that the amount of side stories happening makes it a bit difficult to keep track of who's who at times.

Very fun.

First off, because of the title i hope this means we are getting similar books for the other three chaos gods.

Secondly, this book is very fun. It gives us an excellent look into a smaller chaos war-band, the type you hear about that splintered off from even medium sized bands. The cast of characters is where this book really shines, with a good mix of space marines and civilians of all stripes.

Every character's point of view of the adored landing on sirenne is interesting and it doesn't ever feel like you are spending too much time on one character.

The narration is spot on, really no complaints there.

I have a few minor gripes (Gun malfunction as a way to save characters happened too much, for instance) but i was pleasantly surprised by this book.

Brotherhood and betrayal

Before I being this review I will just mention that there is some audio jank in this recording, sometime a sentence is read sounding like it came for an unrefined version of the recording.

With that being said I adore this book (pun intended). This is a new great story about a chaos warband and like many other stories about evil characters it is filled with interesting broken characters trying to be a brotherhood and yet ever seeking to advance thier own positions.

It is a great story with many different enemies for the Adored to face and some great lore drops as well, has Fabius Bile actually managed to crack the primaris gene?

It is hard mention what is great about this book without give away a spoiler. And I should mention that I am a massive CSM fanboy, so yes this is a very biased review. Listen to the sample! If you like it you will love the rest of the book.

not much

It's a long story that I feel didn't really accomplish anything. not terrible, but not great either

narrator did a gera job on otherwise average story

it was ok wh40k book to listen...but i doubt u gonna listen to it twice...

Approach the novel with an open mind

I became excited when I saw there was a new Emperor's Children book. I love the dark-aligned characters, especially of the Warhammer franchise. I was hoping this would be a killer, bad boy adventure story. But unfortunately this book is not like Storm of Iron or Slaves to Darkness. It has its moments of rebellious charm, but it's also a major bummer. You have to put aside your wishes that the Emperor's Children will be shown in a flattering light because a lot of it is about how horrible they are. It's not so much sex, drugs and rock n roll. It's mostly about narcissism, tyrannical rule and corruption. The book is quite picturesque, and as I said, it can be charming. But it's also harrowing for everybody involved. Put aside your expectations and let it do its thing. Just know that it's probably not as fun as you'd hoped.