

Maybe it’s because I didn’t have that wait, but Penitent reads as if there has been no gap between books. But still the question remained: How would the book hold up with such a long gap between releases? Could it possibly live up to the hype generated by legions of fans? As a reader only just getting back into the literature of the forty-first millennium, I did not have to endure nine years of waiting. The 2021 Black Library Celebration saw Penitent‘s release after nine long years of waiting. The second Bequin novel has been gestating for the best part of a decade, to the point that Abnett even went back and released another Eisenhorn novel in between volumes of the Bequin trilogy. But she is not the only one digging into Queen Mab’s secrets.ĭan Abnett’s Penitent has to be one of the most anticipated releases in Black Library’s long history. Torn between the warring Inquisitors Gregor Eisenhorn and Gideon Ravenor, Bequin finds herself questioning everything. – click here for a full list of all my Warhammer 40,000 content–īeta Bequin continues her investigation of the ancient city Queen Mab.
