
Volpone Glory
Warhammer 40,000
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Narrated by:
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Andrew Wincott
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By:
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Nick Kyme
About this listen
A Sabbat Worlds novel.
We will make our own history, and all other accounts be damned.
Listen to it because...Volpone Glory covers the exploits of the soldiers of the 50th Volpone of the Royal Volpone Regiment. Their ranks are filled with proud and arrogant soldiers who come from the noble families of Volpone, earning them the name 'Bluebloods' among the Astra Militarum. Nick Kyme breathes life and humility into the members of this otherwise supercilious regiment as they battle against impossible odds.
The story: as war rages across the Sabbat Worlds, the Volpone Bluebloods are sent to Gnostes at the head of a massive Imperial host. Tasked with the liberation of the Agria island chain from the entrenched Blood Pact, the haughty soldiers of the Volpone find their mettle sorely tested in a brutal meat grinder. After a punishing setback threatens to derail the campaign, an unlikely champion rises through the ranks and victory once again seems possible. But the propaganda of war is a fickle beast, and the Archenemy are cultivating a plot the Imperium can scarcely fathom. Through glory and honour, the Volpone are desperate to prevail, but can they endure the rigours of the bloodiest campaign in their vaunted history and come out the other side intact?
Written by Nick Kyme, narrated by Andrew Wincott.
©2021 Games Workshop Limited (P)2021 Games Workshop LimitedA unique regiment
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Very good
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of blue blood and other fictions
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Gave up with 4hrs to go after realising I hadn’t been listening as often as I usually and avidly do!
Shame
Couldn’t finish - just dragged on..
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OK.
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too many characters.
yes abnett brings in characters and has them savagely cut down. kyme seems to do the same but the connection to the characters just isn't there.
maybe I'd enjoy it more if read rather than listened to.
reads like dan abnett... fan fiction
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An epic tale
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Like a Ghosts book but darker (and everyone is arsehole)
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the story and characters are fine but nothing really leapt out at me and makes me want to see or know more about anyone involved in the story. seeing as how this is set in the Sabbat Worlds crusade alongside Dan Abnett's Gaunts Ghosts novels the gulf in quality is a bit disappointing in my opinion.
the Volpone are fleshed out more than just "arrogant bluebloods" but there is something that feels a bit artificial about it all.
Kyme is a good author, this one unfortunately is a slight miss for me
solid but not brilliant
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Characters - interesting, varied, enigmatic, as products of a strict aristocratic society the characters are a mix of virtues and flaws - just like real people - which makes them all the more relatable. Would love to read more about them and their continuing development.
Story - WOW. I actually preferred this to many of the Gaunts Ghosts novels, so many twists, turns and plots. The second half of the book in particular was outstanding, proper edge of your seat stuff.
Outstanding spin off, hope they write more.
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