40 Thousand Reasons

A well done and moderately well-executed Warhammer 40K crackfic

Grammar: Very little grammatical or spelling errors whatsoever that I can point out in this story that would hinder your reading experience. 5/5

Style: This story is a very unserious crackfic fanfiction of Warhammer 40K that is more on the comedic side rather than the usual Warhammer dark and gritty. So it's not a story for those who are preferential towards more serious types of stories 4/5

Story: The story is set in the Warhammer 40K universe and mostly just focuses on the adventures of the self-inserted Lord Pef and his quest of doing whatever he wants from blowing up Orks to messing with canon.

It does, of course, have an actual plotline, like creating his own empire of blanks and ensuring the survival of humanity, but it all sort of just falls on the wayside and is mostly done in the background by the side characters while Lord Pef focuses on his travels, messing with everyone and essentially becoming the Deus ex machina of the universe.

The story while funny and interesting is slowly becoming boring and repetitive as the MC simply repeats his actions, again and again, simply following the same pattern.

Everything also simply falls into Pef's lap thanks to various plotholes, plot armour and his knowledge of how the story is supposed to go. Making even the most absurd of obstacles become mere nuisances that are eliminated in a heartbeat creating no real excitement except for those who like to read how the MC so easily obliterates and overpowers their foes, regardless of the odds.

There is also heavy use of lore in this story so unless your a fan of WH40K or have read up on the lore extensively, then'll you have some difficulty with some of the terms or items used/shown in the story 3/5

Characters: The characters in the story both side and main are all, unfortunately, one dimensional, rather bland, at times interesting and other times just carbon copies of each other. So much so that it only takes the most basic and simple of explanations to describe most characters in their entirety. 

None of the characters in the story are really fleshed out enough to be called anything but one dimensional and most are simply static and unchanging. The tech-priests being worst of them as they are all essentially copies of one another in both actions and reactions making them exceedingly predictable and thus boring after a while. 

For the more hardcore fans of WH40K there's also the fact that many of in-universe characters are very OOC (out of character). The biggest example of which are the Astartes in this story. They have become gullible, stupid and easily cowed weaklings that easily fall prey to literally anyone without guidance (Lord Pef). So be warned 2.5/5

Overall: A fun read that's great at the start that slowly becomes repetitive as the story progresses. I would recommend it as a past-time read for a good laugh or two. I wouldn't recommend it for people who like more plot-driven stories and WH40K fans who dislike canon divergence and OOC (out of character) characters.

This is the type of story for those people who like stories like Overlord where the main protagonist (Ainz) is so powerful that there is literally zero threats that can actually harm him and where the most interesting part or main attraction of the story is how he overpowers everyone who stands in his way and how his 'powerful' enemies are simply helpess lambs for slaughter against him  3.5/5

Recently the term "Mary Sue" or "Gary Stue" get tossed around like they're inherently bad writing. That's incorrect, they're only bad when they try to hide what they are. Pef is an unapologetic cheater who knows he's exploiting meta knowledge and having a blast doing it.

There are a lot of purists who think 40k needs to be all Grim-Dark all the time but they like to forget how campy and grim-stupid it can be, and this has a lot of the grim-stupid aspects getting exploited.

TLDR it's a power trip in the 40k Universe, and that isn't an inherently bad thing for fanfiction.

Overall I like this, but Pef's narration style of storytelling can be grating. There honestly is not enough 40k fanfics and those that do exist usually have not been updated in years. So, while Pef's story isnt an ideal to me I'm definitly going to read it just like I did for his Starwars novel because he provides niche fanfics I enjoy. 

This all said Pef could use a good editor or sounding board for ideas. No clue if he is trying to take his writing full-time but I wish him luck in finding the tools to get better at this stuff. 

And there's nothing wrong with that.

There are constant reminders of how grimdark the overall sitiuation is, but the main character keeps on dealing with his local challenges fairly easily, and snowballing his empire/fleet. But it handles that well.

Other than that, the grammar has a few mistakes, and the characters are somewhat flat.

While there isnt much overall story mostly just steal,make,kill repeat its still a fun read and im enjoying it.

Rather jarring beginning especially for the uninitiated in the 40k lore, but to me, looking stuff up in the wikis was part of the fun. The grammar isn't problematic and there isn't any other big no-nos unless you really dislike some power fantasy and was hoping for a 40k story where everyone dies and hope is just heresy in disguise.

On that note, the synopsis sucks and pretty much doesn't say anything.
Pef Lancefire (MC) is a rogue trader for the imperium of man, living on the fringes of what is considered civilized space, luckily he is a 'Blank', someone who is mostly immune to the corruption of the warp, and he knows enough of the 40k lore to be considered a heretic.
There, I almost didn't say anything and I still did a better job than the actual synopsis.

Also, this novel needs a harem tag.

This made look into Warhammer for the 1rst time so it is not only a fan fiction but a great standalone story as well. Well written with little to no mistakes some smutt that is not detailed (much to my satisfaction) and using the lore in great way to take advantage of game events. Worth a read at the very least. And for the people that don't know what Warhammer 40000 is there is only one thing to say to you; Emperor Protects! 

 I admit, I read the first 1.5 chapters and was turned off by the setting, world, and grammar since all i knew about 40k was that some nerds liked to paint toy figures and leave them on their shelves for decades.

Thankfully, the grammar improves considerably and the empire building, tech discoveries, and rich lore are all my current fav parts of any story. 

Like i just said, i knew nothing about 40k before binge reading all 181 chapters in the last 3 days but during those days the author provided links to the 100s of terms he was throwing around and i would read those links and then the links of the links and soon i spent more time reading 40k wikis than the actual story. Once learning a lot of backstory and more of the world everything became much more enjoyable, most of the time pef would go somewhere and do some things then i would wiki those things and learn even more about the 40k universe.

The characters really arnt as bad as some reviews make it seem, there are just 100s of them that come and go in as many chapters. 

My main complaint is just how fast paced this story is, it is very hard to keep track of where in the universe the mc is at times or how large his fleet is. like for the current arc, i have legit no idea what forces he took on his crusade besides 6 carriers and some battleships, id really like to know those numbers in a spoiler at the end of the chapter. Also location title to go along with every scene shift would be greatly appreciated.

Other than that i've loved reading this story so far and can only hope for 1000 more chapters though it seems the story is approaching the endgame atm and it could finish within 100 :/

I can only give you 4 stars, since this doesn't really feel like a story. More like I am reading the personal log book of the Pef. Full of battle reports and about all the women he slept with.

Which honestly I dont hate it. But it just doesnt feel like a story to me. What I do like is that you have given me a new appreciation for 40k. With all the links and little tidbits of info sprinkled in, I have become a 40k fan. Not sure I would ever play the table top and paint miniatures, but once space hulk death wing goes on sale I will buy and play it.

Also the YouTube video emperor has text to speech is awesome. I found that through one of the other readers of this. You know what, fine you get 5 stars. Only because of that YouTube channel I found. Keep up the good work though. I know how hard it is to write.