Book Club Book #129: Lelith Hesperax: Queen of Knives by Mike Brooks

Every two weeks we read a new book in the WH40k universe and discuss it on our podcast. We invite you to read along with us and join in on our conversation via comments, Twitter, email, or vox cast.

For this episode, we’re reading Lelith Hesperax: Queen of Knives by Mike Brooks. You can purchase it at Amazon, or Black Library.

From the back of the book:

In the darkest corners of the webway lies the city of Commorragh. Home to the sadistic drukhari, millions are butchered upon its arenas’ sands to slake their terrible thirst for blood.

Greatest of these butchers is Lelith Hesperax, the Queen of Knives, deadliest gladiator in the galaxy. But she has abandoned the Dark City to walk alongside the nomadic death cultists of the Ynnead, and in her absence rise pretenders to her blood-soaked crown.

When a blade strikes at Lelith from the shadows, she is dragged back to Commorragh and into the murderous games of the Living Muse himself – Asdrubael Vect. As his schemes coil around her, the Queen of Knives finds herself ensnared once more in Vect’s terrible web, and this time her blades may not be enough to free her…

Questions to ponder after reading Lelith Hesperax: Queen of Knives:

• Why do neither of us find the drukhari in anyway compelling?
• Were there any parts that stood out, or were interesting?
• Did we learn anything meaningful about Lelith?
• Did you like the dynamic between Lelith and Morghana?
• Does Lelith “win” in the end?
• What was the point of Vect’s little game?