DukeLeto69 Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 So I pre-ordered Penitent and Pariah from Amazon because, well it is cheaper and that matters. But just received a message saying the release date has been pushed back (for Amazon to receive from BL). So all you good folks who ordered direct. Good on you. I will just have to sit tight a few more weeks and avoid spoilers! Grrrrrr DarkChaplain 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheywood Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 (edited) The Throne’s been yellow this whole time! Edited February 27, 2021 by cheywood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morovir Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Just finished it. Definitely worth the wait. One person in this threat correctly predicted the identity of the King in Yellow. Pathstrider, mc warhammer and RikuEru 3 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeLeto69 Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 Blimey that was quick! Right seeing as I am not getting my copy for at least three bloody weeks - I am staying away from B&C because I know, just KNOW, I cannot resist opening the spoilers. Have fun folks but I will be late to the party (thanks BL/Amazon) Morovir 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobrakei Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Just wrapped this up in one go (thank you quiet work day!) - I really enjoyed it, and the King in Yellow reveal is a bit of a 'oh sh...' moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanthier Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 I finished it too and whilst I enjoyed it, it does seem like the various factions emerging felt like they were coming from everywhere with no real reasoning as to why. Here's hoping the third book comes out relatively soon and ties everything together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapter Master Valrak Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Just finished it. Definitely worth the wait. One person in this threat correctly predicted the identity of the King in Yellow. Care to give spoil it for me? Is it Dorn? I KNEW IT :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpharius902 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 (edited) Just finished it. Definitely worth the wait. One person in this threat correctly predicted the identity of the King in Yellow. Care to give spoil it for me? Is it Dorn? I KNEW IT One who claims to be the Emperor’s Shield and the First of the Ten Thousand, the Chief-Custodian and the Right Hand of the Emperor.... one whose name is said to be Constantin Valdor Edited February 27, 2021 by Alpharius902 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morovir Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 The moment you know everything's about to go down... "The book is a name. The whole damn book. A single name, written in that Hexad code thing, thousands of characters long." Triszin, Noserenda and Nineswords 3 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nineswords Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 (edited) Nine years we have waited. It was absolutely worth the wait. Edit: my mind is still reeling an hour later thinking about the implications of this book. Edited February 27, 2021 by Nineswords Morovir and caladancid 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_Shift Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 I re read pariah and I’ve just started penitent. Lightburn is just such an intriguing character. Personally I find the ravenor characters less interesting. Too many psychic shenanigans to let them escape situations. You just can’t beat Abnett with the inquisition series though. Instantly pulled me out of my reading fugue and got me into a book I couldn’t put down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malika666 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 So everybody is freaking out about the big reveal, but what about Eisenhorn and Ravenor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caladancid Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 (edited) So everybody is freaking out about the big reveal, but what about Eisenhorn and Ravenor? I honestly thought Abnett was overhyping the big reveal. He was not. Hard to really overstate what it felt like to read that. Eisenhorn and Ravenor.....sort of secondary in their own trilogy after that! The entire way I think of the Imperium is changing, which is crazy. Edited February 28, 2021 by caladancid Nineswords 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwrath121 Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 (edited) Yeah, kinda dizzy with the potential implications of all this. Book is an overwhelming superhero movie tag-team of... Things... Coming at you and hitting you with a steel chair, one by one. So many questions. Edited February 28, 2021 by Darkwrath121 caladancid 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caladancid Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 Yeah, kinda dizzy with the potential implications of all this. Book is an overwhelming superhero movie tag-team of... Things... Coming at you and hitting you with a steel chair, one by one. So many questions. Yes. I kept thinking- holy crap that must be the huge thing, wait no THIS is it, .........OMG THIS IS IT......then when it actually was it, not much to do and sit there and re-evaluate everything I thought I knew. Darkwrath121 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyriks Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 This might prove to be the first time I regret reading spoilers. Might have to get around to Bequin's trilogy after all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeLeto69 Posted February 28, 2021 Author Share Posted February 28, 2021 Ok Fraters this is so hard! Not got my copy yet grrrrrr and for first time ever I am adamant I will not read spoilers - but this is torture. So one question to those who have read it - please just give a YES / NO answer... Did anyone on this thread guess the identity of the Yellow King? Thanks *sob* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caladancid Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 (edited) Ok Fraters this is so hard! Not got my copy yet grrrrrr and for first time ever I am adamant I will not read spoilers - but this is torture. So one question to those who have read it - please just give a YES / NO answer... Did anyone on this thread guess the identity of the Yellow King? Thanks *sob* Answer to your question is in the spoiler below- with no additional info. Yes. Also- If you have ever loved a 40k book do not read spoilers!!!! You will regret it TRUST ME. The feeling when you read it for yourself.....just please don't. Edited February 28, 2021 by caladancid DukeLeto69 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nineswords Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 Ok Fraters this is so hard! Not got my copy yet grrrrrr and for first time ever I am adamant I will not read spoilers - but this is torture. So one question to those who have read it - please just give a YES / NO answer... Did anyone on this thread guess the identity of the Yellow King? Thanks *sob* DO NOT READ THE SPOILERS. ANOTHER FEW DAYS IS WORTH IT! caladancid, DukeLeto69 and DarkChaplain 3 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeLeto69 Posted February 28, 2021 Author Share Posted February 28, 2021 LOL thank you brothers. I will be strong. I can do this. Gutted though - 8yrs waiting (so few weeks doesn’t really matter) and in my excitement I pre-order on Amazon ages ago only to have their delivery delayed due to “the supplier changing the release date”. Should have held tight and ordered direct from BL! Speculation - Sales of Penitent have be so strong on BL website that they used up all their stock fulfilling those and third parties like Amazon will be fulfilled from a second print run. Enjoy brothers - if you spot me lurking tell me off ha ha! “Must not read spoilers. Muuust not read spoilers. MUUUUSSTT NOOOT REAAAD SPOILERRRRRSS” caladancid and DarkChaplain 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapter Master Valrak Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 (edited) So Valdor is actually in this book?! Or they say it's Valdor?! Just finished it. Definitely worth the wait. One person in this threat correctly predicted the identity of the King in Yellow. Care to give spoil it for me? Is it Dorn? I KNEW IT One who claims to be the Emperor’s Shield and the First of the Ten Thousand, the Chief-Custodian and the Right Hand of the Emperor.... one whose name is said to be Constantin Valdor Wait, what?! So Valdor is actually in this book?! Or they say it's Valdor?! Edited February 28, 2021 by Chapter Master Valrak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caladancid Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 LOL thank you brothers. I will be strong. I can do this. Gutted though - 8yrs waiting (so few weeks doesn’t really matter) and in my excitement I pre-order on Amazon ages ago only to have their delivery delayed due to “the supplier changing the release date”. Should have held tight and ordered direct from BL! Speculation - Sales of Penitent have be so strong on BL website that they used up all their stock fulfilling those and third parties like Amazon will be fulfilled from a second print run. Enjoy brothers - if you spot me lurking tell me off ha ha! “Must not read spoilers. Muuust not read spoilers. MUUUUSSTT NOOOT REAAAD SPOILERRRRRSS” You might already know this but if not, you can buy a kindle book and read it on your computer. Might be an option for you? Special occasions call for special measures! Nineswords 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpharius902 Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 So Valdor is actually in this book?! Or they say it's Valdor?! Just finished it. Definitely worth the wait. One person in this threat correctly predicted the identity of the King in Yellow. Care to give spoil it for me? Is it Dorn? I KNEW IT One who claims to be the Emperor’s Shield and the First of the Ten Thousand, the Chief-Custodian and the Right Hand of the Emperor.... one whose name is said to be Constantin Valdor Wait, what?! So Valdor is actually in this book?! Or they say it's Valdor?! They find a book written in Hexad (probably some bastardized version of hexadecimal that somehow doesn’t use any letters) that is found to reveal the identity of the Yellow King. The person translating it realizes that all the book is is one name, made up of thousands upon thousands of characters. The first translated two words are “Constantin Valdor,” the implication being with the Custodes names being so long that it is the rest of the book. I swear, Abnett’s going to need Pandaemonium to be the length of a textbook to explain this stuff along with a bunch of other things that pop up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandlemad Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 Just finished this. Some stuff to mull over alright, what you might call galaxy-scale stuff in a way that we haven’t seen in the Eisenhorn/Ravenor books before, but what’s sticking with me most of all is how enjoyable the slightly baroque voice that Abnett adopted for Pariah and Penitent is. DarkChaplain 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleanse And Purify Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 (edited) I felt similar. The style Abnett adopts is delightful. And some genuinely beautiful prose. Certainly not what you expect in the average sci fi novel Edited February 28, 2021 by Cleanse And Purify Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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