Saviour of the Imperium (Ciaphas Cain) Kindle Edition

I've always love Ciaphis Cain and Jurgen. Amazing duo and great stories. All the action that can be expected from the 41st Millennium, but also with a good deal of humor.

Rank Commissar Cain up there with the greatest and most storied heroes of the Imperium - Gaunt, Eisenhorn, Ravenor, and their comrades. Inquisitor Vail and Jurgen are fantastic characters in their own right. I can’t wait to read the rest of the novels in the series!

I've read the previous Cain omnibuses, so once I'd heard about the third omnibus coming out, I knew I had to pick it up when the chance arose. After reading it and re-reading it, I'd have to say I'm glad I picked it up. I'm just disappointed that my copy got shipped in a shoddy plastic pouch which didn't protect the page edges from getting chewed up in a conveyor belt or something.A bit of a caveat, first. Recently, I've come to the conclusion that the Ciaphas Cain books are best enjoyed in bite-sized chunks: such as when you're on the porcelain throne, or have other such lulls throughout your day. Otherwise, you'll likely find yourself unable to ignore the formulaic writing, which may diminish your enjoyment. In other words, these books are likely not something to be binge-read. Your mileage may vary, regardless.This time around, I think the author managed to keep the experience fresh by focusing more on Commissar Cain's experiences with, and observations on, the Adeptus Mechanicus and a chapter of the Adeptus Astartes (who have close ties with the aforementioned Mechanicus). Said observations are as irreverent as ever and mostly entertaining.I can't claim to be particularly well-versed in the setting's lore, so a few plot elements did catch me off-guard. Some old faces do unexpectedly turn up. Some readers tend to criticize the lack of variety of enemies featured in the Cain stories, thus far, but I personally find that a vacuous complaint which doesn't seem to take into account the time and place the stories are set in (i.e., near the turn of the millennium, in the Damocles Gulf).I also enjoyed the short stories, particularly the ones revolving around Cain's trusty aide, for adding new insights and generally just contributing to fleshing out the universe through Cain's amusing and idiosyncratic perspective. I derived considerable amusement from a particular moment in the first book of this omnibus, where the younger Cain demonstrates a seemingly uncharacteristic (not to mention wholly unexpected) obtuseness comparable to that of a certain stereotypical shōnen anime protagonist. However subtle, I think it still adds a little more plausibility to Cain as a character, as it demonstrates growth in his career as a commissar and fits in with his own previous comments on his own inexperience. As a whole, this omnibus actually got me to leaf through my copies of the previous omnibuses, too.TL;DR: In any case, if you're looking at this item page and reading this review, you've probably either decided long ago whether or not you liked the series. If you do like it, this is more of the same, but with sufficient changes to the formula to keep it from stagnating or becoming stale; thus, you're probably inclined to pick it up, regardless of what someone blabbing on the internet says. Same holds true if you're becoming disillusioned with the series, or if you never liked it to begin with: there's no way I could possibly influence your decision.

Stories are easy reads, with fun adventures and great characters, the ciaphas cain series is one of the better 40k stories.

Loved it. Commisar Cain is always entertaining. Sandy Mitchell delivers again. If you like the "light hearted" side of 40k you will love this book.

So, the chaotic nature, and its intended this way, of the writing means that the stories are chronologically out of order. Novels The Emperor’s Finest, The Last Ditch and The Greater Good, the novella Old Soldiers Never Die, are chronologically stories: 6, 13, 15, and 12 in that order. So while each story is self-contained, they will reference things that occured in other stories.

If you loved the first two, then you will love this one. It's every bit as good.I'm just sorry that I couldn't find a reasonably priced hard copy, so my eventual grandkids could discover it.

I wouldn't call this my favorite Ciaphas Cain omnibus, but it has all of those old elements that make the series so iconic. The first and second books are among my five favorite Cain novels so far. It was nice to see a larger number of shorter works included and all of them were fun to read. Any Warhammer fans shouldn't pass up this book.

This is the 3rd (and to date, last) collected omnibus in the Chapais Cain series, collecting the 7th, 8th & 9th novels as well as a few selected short stories.Without giving away any of the plot details, it continues Cain's often bizarre knack of getting into trouble by being in the wrong place at the right time, often aided and abetted by an assortment of colourful characters and see the impact of the events of the very 1st novel revisited in the 9th novel.The books are unusual in the Warhammer 40k large repository of books, as they are surprisingly full of humour and dry wit, and are annotated In Character, by an Inquisitor who we met in the first novel in Omnibus 1.Whenever I recommend any Black Library 40k novels, this series is always one of my top two recommendations.

I had these books originally as paperbacks and as soon as I realised I can get them as an eBook I was all over that This series of books and a few of the others from the Black Library are absolutely amazing and have entertained me for many an hour if not weeks to a month at times as being a severe dyslexic reading has never been my strong attributes, and if you're wondering why the spelling in this is so good I using a speech to text app on my tablet... Technology for the win all round here people..

Unnecessary flowery and messy prose that feels like the author is trying far too hard to cram the image into your stinky little brain that this was written by a quirky gentleman-rogue. This book features countless tangents, needless opinionated comments from the main character concerning things with no relevance to the story, entire pages written about a 2% tax increase on candles & incense (seriously?), constant chiming-in of the editor (a second narrator) spending paragraphs criticising Cain's writing style, a complete lack of explanation in a lot of places that desperately needs it, and terribly dry over-explanation in places that don't need it at all.Honestly, this reminds me of how I would write about the adventures of my skyrim character when I was barely a teenager. An unpleasant headache to read overall. If I was expected to titter at the clever turns of phrase and quirky multi-paragraph tangents about the mould growing in the corner of Cain's quarters over a glass of vintage while twirling the curls of my generously waxed taint, then sorry to disappoint but I'd rather lick the dust off the concrete wall of an amazon warehouse than slog through 960 pages of this

With a combination of Blackadder & Flashman this authors universe has the ultimate rogue & survivor giving a twisted comedic slant onto this twisted bloody realm. Get the other omnibus's first to get the full experience & remember.... Blood for the Blood God

I bought this without checking it out first, if you have read the cain series of books you will already have read all the stories in this one as it is just a collection from the other books. Waste of £10.