Awakenings
21.0 Stars
4-30-2025

I'm starting to believe that not every WH40K book is a work of great literature. This one was another 3rd tier effort; it seemed kind of cut and paste, and what the author intended to be mystery and conspiracy basically immediately passed into satire as the MC is left wondering who she is, who everyone else is, what has happened, what she is trying to do, and what the others are trying to do. It's like she's been shoved onto the stage of a community theater with no idea what the dialog or the plot of the play is supposed to be. This would be amusing if intentional, but here it's just the author feeling their way through writing their first novel, and leaning way too heavily into trying to make things noir and cloak and dagger without in any way actually creating that world or those affects.