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Salvation's Reach

Gaunt's Ghosts, Book 13

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Salvation's Reach

By: Dan Abnett
Narrated by: James McPherson
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The Ghosts of the Tanith First-and-Only have been away from the front line for too long. Listless and hungry for action, they are offered a mission that perfectly suits their talents.

The objective: the mysterious Salvation's Reach, a remote and impenetrable stronghold concealing secrets that could change the course of the Sabbat Worlds campaign. But the proposed raid is so hazardous, it's regarded as a suicide mission, and the Ghosts may have been in reserve for so long they've lost their edge. Haunted by spectres from the past and stalked by the Archenemy, Colonel-Commissar Gaunt and his Ghosts embark upon what could be their finest hour...or their final mission.

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I love the Gaunt's Ghosts series and story wise, this is no exception. The usual rich tapestry of characters old and new, great plot line and extremely well written story we have come to expect from the exceptional Mr Abnett.
Unfortunately, the performance let's it down badly. James McPherson puts in a decent effort, however he falls short of the mark badly in my opinion. Although reasonably varied, the characters lack the definition they deserve. It feels as though he is not familiar with the 40k universe, or at least not with the characters he is narrating. Mad Larkin sounds like the deranged 'wise woman' from Blackadder, Gaunt like a junior lieutenant with none of the power and confidence of a commander. Space marines that sound more like a mentally challenged or illiterate voldermort than the emperors finest. Dan Abnett's writing contains a great deal of detail and description in regards to his characters. When this is ignored in the performance it ruins the whole thing for me.
The rest of the series is superb as usual. Unfortunately this instalment is found wanting.

Great story, dubious performance.

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I just couldn't get the same feel of the book or the story without Toby Longworth. It shows me that audible books, the narrator is a huge part of the enjoyment, and success. Hopefully Mr Longworth will reappear with Gaunts Ghosts again soon.

Change of narrator, changes everything.

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No disrespect to voice actor but if they had only continued with the original one, Toby Longworth?!
It's an okay performance at best, and very jarring to change the voice you've been listening to for the last 10 books!

Great Story as Always

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The story as always excellent unfortunately the narration fell short some of the characters sound like dads army personnel

Standard slip

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I could go past the all Irish accents even for the non Tanith, the wrong pronouncing of the Beati, Ayatani Zweil e.t.c like he was just learning how to read, but making Larkin sound like he's a 120 year old woman that's a witch, has her balls squeezed by a robot clamp and somehow is a duck.
Where the hell do you find these people? First the illiterate narrator for the Sabbath Martyr books, the Leviathan one with 2 range voices where one of them is a whiny British teenager and the other is a whiny British teenager that went into puberty in that very second... Now this guy that both can't read and does not have a range of voices. With Toby Longworth I knew who was talking just by the voices. Are we regressing that much as a species now that no qualifications are needed for any job? I will no be buying any audio books narrated by these three.

I gave the new narrator a chance, but he didn't deserve it

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