Fulgrim (Warhammer 40,000 Novels: Horus Heresy) by Graham McNeill
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Book Reviews of Fulgrim (Warhammer 40,000 Novels: Horus Heresy)
Book Review: Like a Khorne Berzerker to battle.....
Summary: 3 Stars
.....the story was too rushed. Most of the story is already written in the other books. This book just sorta fills in a few places that ultimately did not need to filled in on. Almost all of the story was already written down in other Warhammer sources, from Fulgrim turning to Horus and his fated duel with Ferrus Manus. Most of the dialogue was about sensations and feelings. It was sorta like having somebody trying to describe colors to a man who can already see. In all, it kinda felt like Star Wars Ep. 3 seeing Anakin go from "Hi, Obi-wan!!!" to "Die, Obi-wan!!!" in about 30 minutes.Book Review: pretty good
Summary: 3 Stars
This book is pretty much what I expected from the series, although it is not the best. It takes a somewhat deeper look at the characters then the other books did and I thought that it was pretty interesting in doing that. However it did seem like some parts were drawn on longer then they should have been. Overall it has what I have come to expect from the series; action, a look at the characters(albeit this book having a somewhat deeper look then the others), and the general story of what was happening during the first stages of the heresy.Book Review: Slaanesh would be most displeased
Summary: 2 Stars
Fulgrim makes me sad.
So very, very sad. I had high hopes after the boring ( and somewhat controversial) fall of Horus that I personally found unrealistic and childish. I really hoped that the backlash would have been enough to jumpstart a reversal in the trend. The pre established fluff had Fulgrim slowly falling by Horus corrupting Fulgrim through the Lodges, im not a strict fluff nazi but if your going to change the background, I would have hoped it would be meaningful to the novel.However
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Fulgrim is utlimatley seduced by a talking blade. Not over a few years like I would have expected, but something I would assume that was under maybe a year.
Fulgrim seems bland and so self centerd im not sure how the Legion ever managed to take any worlds. I realise Slaanesh and Chaos is meant to be ranndom but the transformations from "hobo" Fulgrim to him appearing immaculate was confusing and disoreintating and added nothing to the story apart from moments like "WTF? shouldnt the Daemonic sword realise Horus is corrupt?".
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The writing was clunky and the scenes IMO would have played better on the big screen rather than a novel. It all seemed rather childish, I mean marines pumping the air! I didnt realise the Emperors Children were actually what there name implied, children.
And the word childish sums up this novel perfectly, Fulgrim seems underdeveloped and the story lacking any discernable motive. All this would have been fine if the novel started with a structured story and likable charcter yet it started out like it was coughed up by Slaanesh on an excstasy rave straight from the beginning.
Book Review: Weak effort
Summary: 2 Stars
Graham McNeil's apparent inability to flesh out likable - or at least adequate - characters is glaring in his second contribution to the Horus Heresy series. Uneven throughout, by the second half the book grows tiresome in its unimaginative descriptions of events that neither add to the main plot nor liven the narrative.
The Space Marines are written like overgrown boyscouts and McNeil's treatment of primarchs is dull and overly simplistic, bordering on dumb. What could have been a light character study within themes of perfection and indulgence set against a wonderfully dark sci-fi backdrop, becomes a monotone account of who went where and what happened when they did so.
The author never attempts to explain what motivates the characters, *why* they act upon something one way or another - instead he chooses to resort to tired but convenient plot devices.
The action is neither very satisfying nor redeeming. Here's to milking the franchise, guys.
Two stars, cause I've read worse.
Book Review: Good but a little dissapointed at the end
Summary: 2 Stars
The fall fo Fulgrim and the Emperor's Children chaper is a great read, but it's almost predicatable that Fulgrim will fall, granted though I thought the corralation between Fulgrim's quest for perfection and that of present day society was rather interesting. It just seemed a little too easy, I realize that he came to possess a weapon imbued with the powers of chaos like Horus did several novels earlier, but it seemed like Fulgrim was all too willing to go along with Horus' plan to turn on the Imperium and set it to the torch. Honestly by the end what happened to Fulgrim is kind of Darth Vaderish at the end of episode 3. There is no real moral dillema he really thinks about like Horus did before he fell, all in all I think it could have been fleshed out a little differently.