Listened to the audio book. I have to admit I had mixed thoughts about this novel. What I liked, The imperial commander Ardemus , Marines malevolent Renyard (refreshing different take on Astartes), the silent sister Syreniel, the mordians Dvorgin and Kesh, some of the knights (seeing how some could turn under the right conditions) and Ogin the storm reaper were interesting for me. I have to admit I didn't really like the quartermaster Ariadne and wasn't the guy from the first from the first book in the series in it too? it felt really unlike him.