Ciaphas Cain: Choose Your Enemies: Choose Your Enemies (Volume 10)

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Following multiple engagements against the Eldar, the Valhallan 597th are dispatched to Ironfound amid a Chaos uprising. The people of Japan believe that everyone has an ikigai - a reason for being; the thing that gets you out of bed each morning. The fig tree is there, too, when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, when the teenagers vanish. given that I picked this book up and read it all within the space of a day, I can safely say Cain has not lost his touch!

Set as usual at an indeterminate date (but definitely pre-Dark Imperium) this sees Cain and the Valhallan 597th deployed to the ice world Drechia, bolstering the defences against eldar pirates. As always, there are hints alerting the careful reader as to what is really going in, but as the memoirs are, if not quite stream of consciousness, definitely overwhelmingly cast in Cain's personality, it's easy enough to miss those hints (as Cain does). Bringing their own unique and counter-balanced personalities to proceedings they ask questions such as: what is happiness? In Love Is Not Enough, Mark’s first Audible Original, you’ll follow five real people over the course of six months as they navigate f--ked up romantic situations, ranging from dating app addiction to marital affairs to absurd fantasies.In this five-part series, US happiness expert and positive psychologist Michelle Gielan and British journalist and author Oliver Burkeman explore ways to become truly happier, backed up by scientific evidence. And according to the residents of the Japanese island of Okinawa - the world's longest-living people - finding it is the key to a longer and more fulfilled life. It doesn't feel as if the world is bending over backward to have him find a role within the larger story. In any case, all of the Cain stories are written as memoirs of a self-loathing hero, who is convinced he is nothing more than a craven coward.

the conclusions to the plot of this book took maybe 50 pages and was very much rushed and was not as fleshed out as I wanted. Then there’s Inquisitor Vale’s footnotes, which dance between pointing out people’s foibles, and wondering if Cain isn’t the precise man the Imperium needs. If you’ve ever read a Ciaphas Cain story before, you’ll know exactly what to expect here – Cain and Jurgen getting into trouble (largely unintentionally) and scraping their way out again, as described by Cain’s irreverent, knowing first person narration, with a little help from Inquisitor Vail’s snarky footnotes. Even without the commentary angle, however, the actual fight scenes are geared far more toward spectacle or large scale events over all else. This Hero of the Imperium who, whilst not exactly a coward, is far short of the heroic ideal, or even the ideal of his office.The a mix of familiar faces offered more opportunities for jokes, stories and material for Cain's narration to work with. Following multiple engagements against the Eldar, the Valhallan 597th are dispatched to Ironfound amid a Chaos uprising. Cain has fought numerous xenos, but here we see him primarily squaring off against a cult of Chaos worshippers. If you haven’t, you’re in for a treat – and despite being book ten this is as good a place to start as any. The munitions Ironfound produces are vital to the Imperial war effort in the subsector; its safety must be assured at all costs.