Renegades: Harrowmaster cover art

Renegades: Harrowmaster

Warhammer 40,000

Preview

Try for $0.00
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo + applicable taxes after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Renegades: Harrowmaster

Written by: Mike Brooks
Narrated by: Theo Solomon
Try for $0.00

$14.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $40.95

Buy Now for $40.95

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Tax where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

An Alpha Legion Novel

The leader of an Alpha Legion warband continues the Long War against the Imperium of Mankind, while harbouring the ambition to become the Harrowmaster and unite his Legion.

LISTEN TO IT BECAUSE

See the Alpha Legion in the wake of the Great Rift, as they face the power of the Primaris Space Marines of the Indomitus Crusade.

THE STORY

The Alpha Legion are devious beyond measure, but deceit is a double-edged sword. As the Indomitus Crusade pushes into the far reaches of the Ultima Segmentum, the warband known as the Serpent's Teeth encounter the fearsome Primaris Marines, and the Alpha Legion is faced with a choice – fade into the shadows, or adapt and strike back.

Solomon Akurra, leader of the Teeth, intends to claim the title of Harrowmaster and bind together the feuding heads of the hydra that make up his Legion. His allies are disparate and unproven, and his enemies march with the might of the Imperium at their back. Much is not as it seems, and the odds are stacked against the sons of Alpharius… but Solomon is armed with a weapon the Imperium cannot ignore – the truth.

Written by Mike Brooks. Read by Theo Solomon. Running time is 11 hours and 49 minutes (approx).

©2023 Games Workshop Limited (P)2023 Games Workshop Limited
Adventure Fiction Military Science Fiction War Crusade

What listeners say about Renegades: Harrowmaster

Average Customer Ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    14
  • 4 Stars
    5
  • 3 Stars
    7
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    9
  • 4 Stars
    5
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    3
  • 1 Stars
    4
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    13
  • 4 Stars
    5
  • 3 Stars
    2
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Hydra Dominatus!

The Alpha legion was really in need of a fresh and new view. The author find and create a really good reason of what have been the alpha legions in the last millennial and put a new purpose to build a new era for the Alpharius Omegon sons.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Alpha Legion at war

Alpha Legion in action.
This book is fantastic. You get it all from Titans on the battlefield to covert ops space marines.
Hydra Dominatus.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    2 out of 5 stars

Not the best

The narrator’s performance is pretty good but the story is just mediocre. It tries to provide some insight into the Alpha Legion and even takes a swing at showing how they don’t always have a million secret contingencies, but then it turns out yea they do. It felt like the author tries this set up to subvert your expectations but then he thought “Naw turns out they actually are exactly what you thought.”

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Hydra dominatus

Great story, awesome characters, And the best legion. One of my top 5 40k books.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    1 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

bad voice acting

the narrator makes space marines sound like teenagers... his delivery is flat and lacks any life.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    2 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars

Meh

Makes Silver Templars look like a joke. Takes the new and inexperienced angle WAY too far. Something about the narrator I really didn't like. Story was meh, nothing at all grabbed me.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    1 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

Great story! Poor delivery

Nothing against the the narrator but he was not the right fit for a book like this. He lacked range so most of the characters sounded the same and he most of they were far too squeaky to be space marines.

But over it was read well and it was an engaging story.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    1 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars

Bad Voice Actor Dulls A Middling Story

Imagine my horror when the WORST party character in baulders gate 3 shows up in my 40k book. It was like finding a hairy piece of gum on my shoe. I don't know if Emma Gregory gave Theo Solomon here a reference or what, but this guy needs to stay away from this franchise and voice YA or something. Theo does not have what it takes to voice a space marine, period, end of discussion. The sound like whinnying teenagers, and it's so bad that it's partially GWs fault for taking the guy who did Will Turner and thought... yeah, that guy belongs in the grim dark universe. We need more Emma G, less Theo.

Zero range. Men and women sound the exact same. He's incapable of changing his accent, only exaggerating it, and people like imperial captains and inquisitors sound like some back alley London stabber. The guy made a servitor sound whiney... I mean, the sentence right after the dialogue emphasizes that the cyborg said it with zero emotion, and he still ruins the delivery.

Why does this guy have a job? He's terrible, and worse, he doesn't even sound like he knows anything about 40k. All he had to do was watch a ten minute video on YouTube to get the vibe down and ACT, but no, apparently his speaking voice is so good that he doesn't need to alter it in anyway.

Skip this one citizens, don't be like me and get drawn in hoping for sneaky space marine shenanigans. The only grand schemer here is a bad voice actor who got paid WAY too much money for a garbage performance.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Enjoyable read

Solomon always has a plan! Another great story by Mike Brooks. Highly recommended if you like the alpha legion or the inquisition.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    2 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

Hydra Dominatus

The book is alright. It’s written to make those of the Alpha Legion more “human” than their oft times freakish cousins in the other Traitor Legions, and while the story is often times fun it really drags in places.

The biggest complaint on the writing aspect is the need to tell us all about what models/equipment from 40K every single character we meet is/has. It feels like parts of the story are meant solely to (poorly) explain what 40K and the Factions involved in the story are. Because of that I often found times where the story dragged because it felt like a technical manual over a story.

The positive is, the story is quite fun. Even if it is full of cliches and expectations that you can guess by thinking what would be the most unexpected thing to happen. Without fail the author makes sure that those things happen. I get it, the Alpha Legion is sneaky, but it got a little silly at times. Though the interactions with the different Warbands and learning what they think of each other and themselves was quite enjoyable; and even while predictable in many places it was still good enough. The writing is simple and clean, and makes the story acceptable if not outstanding among other stories in the universe.

But now we get to the worst part of the experience; the Voice Acting. I don’t know if the VA read Solomon as a whiny character scared of everything, but that’s how he portrays him. Every single time he seems to be scared of everything and sounds terrified of his own shadow. It’s especially prevalent early on and becomes almost hilarious how the written word is talking about Solomon’s confidence and understanding, but the VA still comes across like he’s a whiny and scared kid. His other voices are all over the place. Most range from mediocre to outright bad, but weirdly he gets some with a perfect mixture of grit and gruff that makes you more annoyed these weren’t applied to characters with way more screen time. Also I’m not saying everyone can imitate voices from the opposite gender with ease; but when every female character has a nasally and whining voice for everything they say, it really isn’t a good look.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!