First off, the good. It is a perfectly serviceable reader. It also syncs your old purchases from the BL site. It’s also a perfectly fine storefront and audiobook player. No gripes there. Let me tell you what my gripes are, I have 3, each one knocks a star off of the rating.1. The purchase sync does not go the other way. Things you buy on this app you cannot then access on the web-front. I get it on this gripe, I don’t expect this to change as GW said this was the direction they wanted to go.2. The app is a brick if you don’t have network. I’m in the military, and I recently bought The End and the Death trilogy audiobook to listen to while on a trip, but we didn’t have network for much of it, and whenever we didn’t the app wouldn’t let me access my downloaded library. Which might have been fine if not for gripe 3.3. The audio and ebooks “downloaded” weren’t actually. Well I mean they were but not as an ePub, pdf or an MP3, they are buried somewhere in the app’s api and you can’t extract them without a 3rd party tool which is definitely against the TOS. In short, without network I had no way to access my purchase.Currently, cannot recommend, buy the books, from a used book store or an FLGS.

So, I understand the impetus behind this app. Piracy concerns aside, the Black Library website is kind of a mess. Unfortunately, this feels half finished. Like, Games Workshop set a deadline for when it was going to debut before it was finished, instead of ensuring it was ready for release before setting a date. I’d say my biggest issue is that it’s a disorganized mess with almost no categorization beyond the basic setting, but that would be incorrect. My biggest issue is actually that I can’t access my already existing Black Library purchases yet. I really, really hope GW changes their plans to shut down access to the website in a couple of months until this app is where it needs to be.

The app is responsive and hasn’t crashed yet. Now onto the issues. The search features are horrible with only title and author support. Even then it is retuning results for books in German and french even after I went into the settings disable them from being shown. There is no way to remove a book from you library this is relevant when you have downloaded a german language version by accident and dont want to be confused. The array of curated lists is lacking and only includes setting and series. I would like to see faction and genre.

Pretty good overall has some areas that need improvement. Some key features that would help are a removal button for books due to myself adding some French books even though I can’t read French and when clicking the titles of other books at the beginning of reading, it will take you to the website book not the app book. It also needs some improvement for reading such as the ability to turn to a night mode so yours aren’t bleached at night.