Celestine: The Living Saint: Warhammer 40,000

As a character Celestine has a huge amount of promise. This book under delivered on that promise.This book was fairly hard to read. I found myself frequently putting it down and walking away only to reluctantly come back just to see if it got any better/power through.There were a number of promising characters, but the story itself was underwhelming.It felt like someone was trying to write a good backstory for a newly invented franchise character, and failed to write a good book.If you’re an avid fan of warhammer 40k lore, I recommend just reading a synopsis and moving past this title.

Amazing book, i would recomend the book to everyone. The combination of challange for normal people and the challange for Celestine in the warp is very well written. I will get more books like this in a heartbeat.

Would recommend buying. Enjoyed the book. Can stall at times. Enjoyed the ending although kinda predictable but no regrets for purchase

I honestly love every book that features sisters of battle and cadian guardsmen. The book had me interested the whole way and never let go. A really good read

For Celestine, Faith is a responsibility to bear and a comfort to have, a power that drives her forwards and a chain that keeps her anchored to what she must do.Faith is presented in different perspectives for different characters in this book, and all react to meeting the living saint in their own ways. Faith is central to Warhammer 40K, it's the basis of what keeps the Imperium of Man afloat, and it's the noose that tightens more and more around its neck. In the end this book reflects a fight between keeping Faith pure, and honest and free, or allowing it to turn into a festering canker, a whip, a blade that cuts in rage.The Emperor wanted to eradicate religion to avoid people turning faith into a weapon, and prevent the Chaos Gods from using it to spill our blood and doom us all. In this regard he was right, but if there is one thing that the Emperor could never snuff out, and indeed I don't believe he wanted to destroy that, is faith.Not blind, idiotic, zealous faith, but reasoning, willing and free faith.Celestine perfectly embodies this when she all but threatens the Emperor to protect Hope, lest she turn her blade on herself and never fight for him again, and in this, her faith was well placed.I enjoyed this book, a lot. It drew a lot of tears from me. I'm not a religious person and I never will be, but faith is entirely part of the human condition. Faith in each other, faith in our abilities, faith in our judgement, for some people faith in an all seeing and benevolent god. It goes beyond trust, beyond acceptance, and it is refreshing, in this darkest of days, in these waning days when the light of reason and hope have been almost entirely blocked by hate and hunger to see somebody that is capable of reigniting the flame of hope in others. Not in the zealous and almost unthinking way of the Soritas or the Inquisition, but in a way that can teach even the most hate bound creature that acceptance and love exists, and they can grasp it if they wish.The Emperor protects those that protect themselves.

Celestine is a great action-drama about an immortal servant of the Emperor. As a living Saint, Celestine is a powerful supernatural warrior who can appear to aid the faithful in combat. But given the sheer scale of battles in the world of Warhammer 40k, Celestine is far from a deus ex machina. She cannot single-handedly swoop in and defeat an entire opposing army. As such, Celestine's greatest power is her natural ability to inspire and rally the Imperial soldiers around her. This makes "Celestine: The Living Saint" as much about the Imperial forces who encounter Celestine as about the titular character. Overall, this is a confident, vivid, and well-paced tale. Worth your time.

I read ALL books from black library! I finished it sitting by a a pool on holiday, although realised for the first time ever that, I probably only read 30%. Lon g boring descriptions of Celestine,s reincarnation, bloody crap...I GET iT...born again, goes through the warp and then reborn.....so terrible and so heart breaking. A loved character destroyed by someone who was completely focused on dreams, visions rather than any tangible plot...so sad..only black library book for years I felt so unhappy about. Can I get a 70% discount for the authors vivid dreams in this book?

The books showing the trials of Saint Celestine, and how she proves herself time and again to be worthy of the Emperor's powers is fantastic, and in a rare turn in the 40K books, encourages the rest of the characters not to blind zealotry and devotion,but rather to analize their own actions and understand that Faith is not 'a whip with which to flaggelate your fellow man' but the shield that will keep them alive in the darkness. A different book than normal, and quite refreshing at it. Loved it.

The story is ok but the trials of the Saint are boring, found myself skipping pages, and hey the Emperor himself said he was not a god so I expected a good reason that she was a saint. 178 pages for £10 is a rip off