Blacktalon

Warhammer Age of Sigmar

By: Liane Merciel

Narrated by: Alicia Grace Turrell

A Neave Blacktalon Audiobook

The Blacktalons are Sigmar's chosen assassins, a hand-picked crack team of Stormcast Eternals whose lethal skills enable them to strike down even the most powerful foes with ruthless efficiency.

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The discovery of a devastating, long-buried weapon threatens Sigmar himself! Legendary warrior Neave and her lethal companions, the Blacktalons, are charged with eliminating the Chaos threat and defending the Mortal Realms once again.

THE STORY

When Sigmar sends the Blacktalons on an ambiguous and troubling vision of their latest quarry, they leap faithfully into action as they have done for countless centuries – killing first and asking questions later. But this hunt is no simple task.

Neave and her companions are charged with slaying five powerful champions of Chaos. They must do so before these brutal followers of the Dark Gods can procure a long-buried, devastating weapon – one whose destructive power will be felt across all the Mortal Realms.

A weapon that could even threaten Sigmar himself.

Written by Liane Merciel. Narrated by Alicia Grace Turrell. Running time 12 hours 2 seconds (approx).

©2023 Games Workshop Limited (P)2023 Games Workshop Limited

Standard fantasy fare with a little moral complexity thrown in.

Overall not bad. Perrformance was decent and the story was enough to hold my attention and keep me interested. Without spoiling anything, the story does stray into morally gray territory, though I do enjoy a little more nuance. A decent listen.

Better Story and Better Narration

As a newish fan to Neave BlackTalon and her crew, I really enjoyed this! It was better than the first BlackTalon novel First Mark, we need more BlackTalon adventures!

The action and world building.

Incredibly vivid writing describing the world they travel across. The ending was very interesting and the stakes felt very real!

Great climax

Monster-of-the-week style setup with some fun action and a nice window into the Stormcast Eternals as people. Everything comes to a head in a pretty epic finale with some nice lore teasers for the future

Whoa wee! Stay till the end

Multiple fun small adventures to keep the pacing going throughout the story. I was going to chalk it up to just being a fun read with some solid character development but then I got to the end of this book.. Great weightiness to the story that feels impactful to the setting in an interesting way and I can’t wait for the next book!

Also! That author did a good job humanizing the Stormcast and making them interesting. Even though plot armor is a thing, emotions and well placed narrative nods really added a lot of vulnerability to this squad of super folks :)