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.

A good book

It is a fun read, although it gets very slow in the middle. That makes sense. But the motivations of a few characters just fail to make any sense and annoy me a bit. Otherwise good throughout.

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.

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.

Perfection

This is a perfect chaos space marine novel. It gives off Nightlords trilogy vibes that digs into the philosophical side of the 40k universe. An absolutely fantastic look into the depraved minds of the most sadistic, prideful and depraved of the Chaos Space Marines.

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 😊

Fun single read

Great if you don’t want a long winding narrative to keep up with. Xantine is an amazing character that you want to root for despite what he is and does.

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.

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.

Close to being great

The narration is brilliant and I always love more emperor’s children content! But sadly this story is brought down by a lagging and slow storyline with far too much focus on characters I found hard to care about. I found Xantine and S'janth to be a very interesting characters and I very much enjoyed their storyline. I would say if you like emperor’s children it is worth a listen. Otherwise feel free to skip this one.