A review by bentheoverlordsbooks
Fulgrim by Graham McNeill

dark

5.0

 

Dark ! Sickening ! Camp ! F*CKING AWESOME ! This book is all those things and more. I'm really enjoying my reading of the Heresy, and this is one of my favs so far. I really like seeing the build up to Horus' fall from another perspective and then continuing to past the previous points finale, this book focused on The Emperors Children and its frivolous and petulent leader Fulgrim, and his fall into decadence, debauchery and sin. I really liked the character work in this one, and seeing the more horrific body horror of the chaos marines, plus having a cast where some fall and some don't, and seeing the tensions form. It was also excellent seeing more Xenos in this book, especially the Craftworld stuff, its nice to finally see the Eldar at just being themselves, and continuing their skill at being totally useless. I also like that this series gives us non marine POVs and I really liked their storylines and how it tied into the fall.
The culmination on Istvan V was somehow just as good as Istvan III, and both are battles I'll never stop thinking of.
Just excellent, and I hope there are just as many epic moments to come.