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

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Waking up 117 years later, Bob discovers his mind has been uploaded into a sentient space probe with the ability to replicate itself. In each episode you'll follow one person's journey, getting to listen in on their coaching sessions with Selina and following them as she sends them off on a task to try out a new career idea. The unintentional nature of their meetings and Cain's own dialogue helps to smooth this over, as always, but the greater scope at work really plays to the story's strengths. First there is Cain’s self-centred narrative, which reveals he’s not the hero everyone makes him out to be.

While one or two excellent ones - especially just as Cain discovers just what the enemy's plan is - which work in its favour, there are far fewer here to compliment the overall humour.

On a serious note, I feel like if Mitchell had a quick snippet of Cain and Amberley's hinted at hanky panky it would've been incredibly entertaining. Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. Anyway, Cain is cynical and sardonic, ready to dispense quips at anyone's expense (including his own), and the footnotes (written in-universe by his love interest Amberley Vail) take all the potshots at Cain's expense he doesn't take, and anyone else's besides. Following multiple engagements against the Eldar, the Valhallan 597th are dispatched to Ironfound amid a Chaos uprising. With all that said, however, there was no denying that the Ciaphas Cain saga had become somewhat repetative.

Of course, by now I'm fairly certain of what to expect; Humour, action, lots of poking fun at the entire setting and quite a few foot notes by one of our favourite (slightly) psychopathic inquisitor.

Being with your partner may feel like rainbows and unicorns, but that doesn't mean you have a healthy, functioning relationship. It's one of the strongest stories of late, and a major improvement over the last two books in the series. One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. Along the way, they’ll unlock wisdom for those of us navigating our own coupledoms, and for those still seeking their perfect match.

Part of this might be down to some surprisingly odd actions by the races involved in the story, but also how everything is instantly resolved. This allows her to have a greater voice in certain events and more substantial pieces to compliment where Cain glosses over key details.Commissar Ciaphas Cain and the Valhallan 597th are in the thick of it again, putting down an uprising of Chaos cultists on an Imperial mining world.