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Requiem Infernal (Warhammer 40,000) Kindle Edition

by Peter Fehervari (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 273 ratings
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An Adepta Sororitas novel

On a distant world, an obscure order of the Adepta Sororitas study their founder's visions. They live in solitude… which is about to be broken as danger approaches.

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Peter Fehervari brings a tale of an unusual order of the Sisters of Battle, a sister breaking her self-imposed exile and an Astra Militarum unit seeking respite from their woes… and it's every bit as weird and wonderful as you'd hope.

THE STORY
The Adepta Sororitas of the Last Candle have stood vigil over their sanctuary world for centuries, striving to decipher their founder's tormented visions. Outsiders are unwelcome… yet still they come.

Decimated by an encounter with a lethal xenos entity, the survivors of an elite Astra Militarum company have journeyed to the Candleworld in search of healing, escorted by a woman who is no stranger there – Sister Hospitaller Asenath Hyades, who turned her back on the order decades ago.

As the seekers near the sect's bastion, malign forces begin to stir among the planet's storm-wracked spires, but the most insidious shadows lie in their own souls.

Written by Peter Fehervari

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About the Author

Peter Fehervari is the author of the Warhammer 40,000 novels Requiem Infernal, Cult of the Spiral Dawn and Fire Caste, as well as the novella Fire and Ice from the Shas’o anthology. He has also written many short stories for Black Library, including the T’au-themed ‘Out Caste’ and ‘A Sanctuary of Wyrms’, the latter of which appeared in the anthology Deathwatch: Xenos Hunters. He also wrote ‘Nightfall’, which was in the Heroes of the Space Marines anthology, and ‘The Crown of Thorns’. He lives and works in London.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07PW7WCC2
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Library (April 13, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 13, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2680 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 327 pages
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4.4 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars Artistic Existential Horror Action
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2023
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It is a very artistic, existential horror action story. Download the online dictionary, because I read more new words than I ever knew existed (a pattern I have noticed while reading Warhammer 40k books but not a bad thing, it's good to learn new things).

Overall, the book is extremely intriguing. The protagonist have dark sides to them, and there is a constant struggle with the unknown, including the self. As the reader ventures through the many charectors' entangled stories, they might question the duality of their own minds, and wonder if they can trust their own judgments upon reality.

Honestly, it's a straight-up acid trip in an awesome nuns-with-guns sci fi fantasy against the chaos of the warp and it's taint upon a distant world on a series of sacred islands amongst a sea of nightmares, religion and lore.

If this sounds like the thing you are into, then enjoy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Exceeds Every Expectation
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2020
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I don't want to spoil anything, so I will be short and unspecific.
The prose is fantastic, it flows so easily under my eyes and I felt swept up by the author's descriptions. Not to mention I was not expecting brilliantly executed surrealism.
The characters are fascinating and I especially love Asenath, she is a brilliantly built character, her story unfolds like a rose.
The plot is thrilling beyond anything I've seen in a Black Library book before, that is all I dare say.
Finally, the book is downright horrifying at times, and a Lovecraft fan will be right at home in its disturbing paragaphs.
I downloaded the sample on a whim, and now I wish I could give it 6 stars.
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William
4.0 out of 5 stars good but strange
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024
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The writing and prose were great. The ending was somehow descriptive but I still have no clue what actually happened. Better than a lot of other wh 40k books I’ve read
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nickng
5.0 out of 5 stars The kind of book that will keep you up until 7am the next day
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2019
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Requiem Infernal might be Peter Fehervari's best and most complete 40k novel yet. Set in the same Dark Coil corner of the universe he's played in with Fire Caste and Cult of the Spiral Dawn, Requiem is both a prequel to those two novels and the deepest exploration yet of Fehervari's writing style.

It's part baroque horror, part conspiracy theory, part psychological thriller. It's Chaos and Heresy in the universe of 40k rooted in the darkest depths of the human psyche - obsession, guilt, ambition, pride. You won't be able to stop yourself from unraveling the mysteries of the Requiem Infernal, and descending deeper into the Dark Coil.

This is an absolute must-read for anyone who appreciates the universe of 40k for its deeper philosophical and metaphysical threads. You won't be disappointed. I'll be avidly waiting for Fehervari's next novel.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Requiem Interminable!
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2020
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So... yes, there is a certain romance to nihilism, when you're 19. But after the emo washes off and the clove cigs lose their flavour, one wishes for a bit of substance. Peter Fehervari's novel is a slow march to nowhere, and even if that's the point, it's still a slooooow march to nowhere, man.

This is the fourth WH40K novel for me (if we count the Sisters of Battle Omnibus as one), and the first I didn't enjoy. Simultaneously overstuffed with ideas and oddly incomplete (is this secretly a sequel? Felt like a lot of needed backstory was missing), and peopled with characters who somehow become less interesting as the book progresses. Virtually every major charcter has a deepdark past or a deepdark secret doled out to the reader in teaspoons of flashbacks - an overworked and tiresome device that by mid-point served to push me out of the narrative. Perhaps a state of apathy and ennui was the point, but that's an odd goal for any novel to strive for.

Fehervari might be a capable writer - there are ideas here that are intriguing and moments of creepy atmosphere evoked - but he squanders his achievements in an indulgence of sophomoric philosophy and navel-gazing. Maybe in the literary world of WH40K this is something daring and new, but for the SF genre as a whole (or even the Horror genre), it's just an exercise in over-cleverness. I mean, he had to end the book with an "Afterword" explaining and justifying what had just happened in the past 400 pages.

There's another review here that compares the book to 1970's horror films, and I really had to smile at that. The Chris Lee/Peter Cushing classic "Horror Express", a bit of John Carpenter's "The Ward", and a healthy dose of "Event Horizon", to be sure.

I'm giving out three stars in acknowledgement of Fehervari's potential, and that my displeasure with this book may partially stem from my own relative newness to all things WH40K. Maybe. But in honesty I doubt any version of me in any dark-coily universe will be picking up any of his future efforts.
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Trevor C.
5.0 out of 5 stars Transcends 40k.
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2020
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Wow, this transcends warhammer and just becomes an amazing horror novel. Even calling it a horror novel might be reductive.

Absolutely great and worth the read. Stick with it and you'll find a delicious decent into madness which will leave you both confused and seeking deeper truth.
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Jetpack
5.0 out of 5 stars Very well written
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2020
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A good combination of thriller and horror, this is NOT your typical bolter-you know what WH book.

A great character study of corruption and lost souls in the Imperium. Well worth your time.
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john d.
4.0 out of 5 stars Warhammer always good
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2019
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Well the cover caught my eye
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GC
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic 40k Horror!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2021
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I was intrigued by the idea of Black Library releasing dedicated horror titles, as a lot of the genre's themes are already embedded in the various Warhammer settings and so the match is an obvious one in hindsight. As Requiem Infernal shows, with the right treatment it can also be very effective (particularly in comparison to other BL offerings such as Ghoulslayer which I also read recently and which shares a number of parallels with this one, but is not specifically 'Warhammer Horror').

The writing is very fluid and engrossing (just as the road to Chaos should be!), the details are subtle but indicate a deep knowledge of the setting on the part of the author. This is very much a great evocation of what faith and Chaos should be like in a 40k story, as much psychological as it is visceral. 'Grimdark' might be something of a joke, but it's actually a very effective tone here.

A lot of other works trot out the old 'beginner-friendly' or 'you don't have to be aware of the setting/previous instalments to understand this' lines (hello again Ghoulslayer), but in this case it's the truth: because the author tends to avoid using the game-specific jargon labels and just goes ahead and describes everything in detail, it seems to me that even someone unfamiliar with 40k would find a rewarding sci-fi horror story here.

Probably the best Black Library book I've read in ages, and I genuinely think it stands alongside the best they have to offer; I will certainly be seeking out more of the author's work, starting with The Reverie which features more of the Angels Resplendent space marines that make a minor appearance here.

Don't bother with Ghoulslayer though...
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Dmitry
5.0 out of 5 stars Step forward for Black Library writing
Reviewed in Canada on March 4, 2020
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A book that gives a lot of answers to the questions you didn't ask, and doesn't answer the questions you have by the end. Probably, the best description of Chaos in Warhammer 40k. This is not a standard epic "Arthurian" Marines story and it's beautiful. I would love to read more of other "Dark Coil" books but they are all Out-of-Print.
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Jose garcia
4.0 out of 5 stars Libro de terror en el universo Wh40k
Reviewed in Spain on September 10, 2020
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Lo primero que hay que saber es que fehervari es un autor peculiar, su forma de aproximarse al universo w40k es muy partícular. Réquiem infernal es más bien una obra de terror gótica, retorcida y entretenida, narrada en gran medida en primera persona y a ratos un poco difícil de seguir. Personalmente compre este libro porque había leído Fire Caste y esa mezcla loca de Apocalysis Now en el delta del Mekong, sudistas de la guerra de secesión americana y todo en el entorno de Wh40k me encantó. Este libro aunque tiene puntos de contacto con el anterior, y no queda claro si es secuela o precuela, no me ha gustado tanto, aunque quizá se deba a que es más un libro de terror que otra cosa. En todo caso, buena compra.
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Doctor
5.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing
Reviewed in Germany on May 31, 2020
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The book left me feeling empty and longing for answers. I must admit, that it made me truly uncomfortable at times, as it has strong themes of insanity, nihilism(?) and surrealism finely woven into an ever escalating story.

This is not what I expected, which is good! WH40k already has a plethora of uninspired Space Marine and sci-fi war novels and I am glad this book is so refreshingly different!
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skaragrimson
5.0 out of 5 stars Dark, gothic, unsettling - a near perfect (40K) horror story.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2019
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Rarely can Black Library Books be called "profound" - but this manages it... and then some. Told through the compelling but increasingly fraught perspectives of the two main protagonists - first their perceptions of reality start to unthread and then that of the reader... This powerful and downright creepy tale does some genuinely clever and novel things with the mechanics of story-telling. Stylistically might not be to everyone's taste but always beautifully written and shows just what a rich seam of horror and dread can be unearthed from the 40K setting. That said, the book seems to be written with minimal/no pre-existing knowledge of the background lore being necessary. I'd venture to say that this could be the perfect - albeit terrifying - entry point to the 40K universe or indeed stand on its own as a unique voice in the horror/SF genre.
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