I did enjoy reading Fulgrim, and see it as one of the better ones in terms of plot idea and execution, but as has been said the fall of the EC and the dropsite massacre should perhaps have been two different books. I think I'll have to be unpopular here and go against perhaps the majority. It's even worse that the few sane characters in the book are pretty much aware of what's happening but can't be bothered to do anything about it. Jealousy, vanity and a massive inferiority complex could make a neat character in the hands of a better writer, but here it just seemed. It doesn't help that the demon is preying on the emotions and traits that make him a pretty unlikable character anyway. Several times he thinks to himself "Oh, maybe I shouldn't do this" or "Oh no, what have I done", but he never really struggles. But really, Fulgrim's resistance to all of this was just comical. I can even buy that Fulgrim was an easy target. Sure, the demon was obviously very powerful and Fulgrim was really no match for it. He just very, very quickly slipped into flying rodent gak insanity without any real resistance at all. That was problematic, wasn't it? The book really didn't do a good job of showing Fulgrim's struggle. But yes, the book states that when not in the presence of the sword Fulgrim could think clearly, yet he didn't balk at the fact that he spent the last week talking to a poop painting of himself.īut yes, the book states that when not in the presence of the sword Fulgrim could think clearly, yet he didn't balk at the fact that he spent the last week talking to a poop painting of himself. Of course, your analogy is quite appropriate, as all the Primarchs were children with varying degrees of mental ability, and Chaos is the oldest and cleverest bully of them all. The suicidal urge subsided after I got about half way through the book, but the remainder didn't really redeem it in my eyes. Yes, now that I've finished the book, I'm left disappointed. Whenever someone tells me they really liked the book I have to really wonder what it is they could possibly enjoy about it. Invading an lien planet? Turning on your brother marines? Falling to Chaos?), and Fulgrim's descent to Chaos feels like a mentally challenged child being tricked by a clever bully. The conflicts of the book are largely uninteresting (even though they should be fascinating. Aside from Fulgrim himself the characters are completely forgettable. In short, stories about the Space Marines are much more interesting than stories starring the Space Marines. In contrast, shifting the focus of the story to civilians, to artists and journalists and soldiers makes for much, much more interesting stories. #LIST OF ALL HORUS HERESY NOVELS SERIES#I commend Abnett for making Loken, Horus, Abbadon, Tarvitz and several other marines interesting and well rounded characters, but for the most part the marines in this series are very boring, bland people. The thing that works so well with both Horus Rising and Legion is that Abnett knew not to try to make the marines the main characters. In fact, after the first few pages I was pretty sure it was going to be the best book of the series. I'm about halfway through Legion and totally loving it. I was getting a little bored toward the end of the book, but it was nowhere near the slog that Flight was, and it was much better than Fulgrim. The history of the Dark Angels is actually fairly interesting (and I've never been a fan of the chapter). Descent of Angels isn't great, but it was much, much better than I had been led to believe. Abnet did a much better job of defining his characters, and because of that the marines in the first three books are much more interesting. In fact, both this book and Fulgrim suffer from a cast of super uninteresting marines that are mostly interchangeable and have no real defining features. ![]() Also, the Deathguard characters are just dead boring. By the time you get to Garro's actual escape you've spent half the book replaying events that you're already familiar with. Flight of the Eisenstein is pretty okay, butt suffers from retreading a lot of the same ground as the book before it. ![]() Horus Rising is great, but the characters become less and less believable in False Gods and Galaxy in Flames. I enjoyed the first three, although less and less with each book.
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