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  • A Thousand Sons

  • The Horus Heresy, Book 12
  • Written by: Graham McNeill
  • Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
  • Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (318 ratings)

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A Thousand Sons

Written by: Graham McNeill
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
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A Horus Heresy Novel

Censured at the Council of Nikea for his flagrant use of sorcery, Magnus the Red and his Legion retreat to their homeworld to continue their use of the arcane arts in secret.

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One of the most tragic tales of the entire Horus Heresy unfolds as the Thousand Sons are brought low by their relentless quest for knowledge. Magnus is sure that he knows better than the Emperor – but isn't that what caused Horus to fall as well?

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Censured at the Council of Nikea for his flagrant use of sorcery, Magnus the Red and his Thousand Sons Legion retreat to their homeworld of Prospero to continue their use of the arcane arts in secret. When the ill-fated primarch foresees the treachery of Warmaster Horus and warns the Emperor with the very powers he was forbidden to use, the Master of Mankind dispatches fellow primarch Leman Russ to attack Prospero itself. But Magnus has seen more than the betrayal of Horus – and the witnessed revelations will change the fate of his fallen Legion, and its primarch, forever.

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he botched some of the characters voices

his performance with the emperor and Mortarion were at the most, underwhelming. but the story was incredible!

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bad narration

couldn't finish due to boring narrator. this one would be better off if you read it yourself

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Great Story, Poor Narrator.

this review is simply an echo of all the others. great story, but the Narrator was not good at all. At some points very hard to understand (although for me it wasnt that often) my biggest complaint with the narration was the lack of voice changes for characters.... for all characters to have a different voice I understand would be hard, but shouldve been present for the main as it was at times very hard to identify when the individual speaking had changed resulting in having to rewind and listen to sections sometimes multiple times so I could follow the story. the story itself was amazing, I loved it. Narration wasnt the worst I've heard, but definitely could have been better.

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Horribly narration

The story is fantastic but the narrator's tone and cadence completely ruin it. He often pauses mid sentence for no reason and says things as if they are questions.

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this made me cry it was so good

it was amazing. I can't stress enough how bad I felt for how the characters of the 1000 sons got royally f*cked.
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bush did 9/11

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Long, boring with bits of back-breaking fun.

If this book was cut in half with a much smaller cast of characters, I could see this being a good one but my goodness does it drag. The third act is fun, and redeems some of the holy-moly boring parts. If you can borrow, read the Council scene and the third act and then close it without looking back.

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A wonderful sense of doom.

I really liked how this book sets up the thousand sons and the fall of Magnus as inevitable. It’s really well done.

What I don’t like is how unbelievably, cartoonishly evil the space wolves are. I get that they are the big antagonists in the story but I find it hard to believe that the imperium would tolerate a group of very expensive super soldiers howling at each other like animals and decorating themselves with bits of bone mid battle. They’re just silly.

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A slow burn with a hot ending

in the beggining it was slow and it took me a while to get through the first couple of hours. Then the last 5 I couldn't stop listening it was a wonderful ending. awesome set up and now I want to look up more about the planet they ended on and where exactly it is.

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A nice entry for Magnus

I think after reading this I understand far more why things happened in the hours heresy. Performance was great and the structure of the novel was excellent, I very much enjoyed how they portrayed the relationship of Big E and Magnus.

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great background on the thousand son's

great story told frommthe thousand son's point of view gives a lot of context to why they are the way they are . and makes you the reader feel sorry for them. everything they do for the right reasons even if it is inevitably wrong

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