Sometimes a painful slog for exceptional bits. The setting and story are fun, but... eh, you know how in LotR, the everyone's favourite encounter with Balrog is about the same length as Tolkien yammering about brambles on a footpath or which capezios Legolas donned that day? Same thing here. I kinda just moved to reading excerpts on r/40klore or running wiki articles through TTS while doing something else, only picking up a book on recommendation or because synopsis/excerpt made me curious. I will read Spears and Siege one of those weekends, though. You're not the first person praising them for what I like (mortal/ooutsider perspective), and they sound good by synopsis alone, but that's a push I needed. Thanks!I will agree though that there's lots to slog through before you get to the juicy bits.