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Fulgrim (Volume 5) Paperback – Aug. 26 2014

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Part of: The Horus Heresy (54 books)

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Book five in the New York Times bestselling series

Under the command of the newly appointed Warmaster Horus, the Great Crusade continues. Fulgrim, Primarch of the Emperor’s Children, leads his warriors into battle against a vile alien foe, unaware of the darker forces that have already set their sights upon the Imperium of Man. Loyalties are tested, and every murderous whim indulged as the Emperor’s Children take their first steps down the road to true corruption – a road that will ultimately lead them to the killing fields of Isstvan V...

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The Horus Heresy
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512 pages
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English
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Games Workshop
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Aug. 26 2014
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10.8 x 4.45 x 17.78 cm
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9781849708135
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978-1849708135
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Graham McNeill has written more than twenty novels for Black Library. His Horus Heresy novel, A Thousand Sons, was a New York Times bestseller and his Time of Legends novel, Empire, won the 2010 David Gemmell Legend Award. Originally hailing from Scotland, Graham now lives and works in Nottingham.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1849708134
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Games Workshop (Aug. 26 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 512 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781849708135
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1849708135
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 245 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.8 x 4.45 x 17.78 cm

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Hailing from Scotland, Graham McNeill narrowly escaped a career in Surveyinh to join Games Workshop, where he worked for six years as a games developer. In addition to many novels, including False Gods, Fulgrim and Mechanicum for the prestigious Hoeus Hersey series, Graham has written a host of sf and fantasy short stories. He lives in Nottingham, UK.

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James F.

Captivating!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 22, 2020

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Good, well done page turner. Graham MacNeill has started to grow on me. I was skeptical of his work because I found the Iron Warriors Omnibus dull and bland, and Honsou a vicious, but at the same time a lacking, uninteresting villain. But certainly Fulgrim and the Uriel Ventris chronicles are fantastic 40K works

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 26, 2021

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Make these books into a live action movie please for the love of the emperor do it.
10/10 would recommend

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 27, 2015

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In excellent shape. But received late. Otherwise very happy.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 4, 2018

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Won't spoil the story but the condition was perfect.

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Great, but not perfect.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 26, 2022

While a great book in its own right, with amazing pacing, visuals, strong (though sometimes repitious) writing, and a plethora of story arcs that come to a conclusion. This book is a bit weighty and self-indulgent. There are new self-contained arcs in this story which pad out the reading time, and make the story feel a bit bloated. A lot happens, which is great, and it all feels purposeful and worth it but a bit self-indulgent at times and there is more than one arc that I can't help but feel could easily have been cut, or trimmed to a succinct level. Trim the fat, would be primary criticism.

Tldr, doesn't hit the heights of FotE-4, nor the low of GiF-3, but finds itself comfortably between the high standards of HR-1 and FG-2

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 23, 2015

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Great book but it was very used

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 5, 2015

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Best book in the series.

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Detra Fitch

Horus Heresy, Book Five

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 24, 2009

Like book four, book five begins before Horus's terrible massacre with viral weaponry on Isstvan III.

Primarch Fulgrim loves art, be they sculptures, paintings, music, or otherwise. Among his expedition resides the best each medium has to offer. Things are slowly changing. The pace of change quickens after Fulgrim takes a silver blade from his crushed enemies. With the touch of the hilt, Fulgrim begins to hear a voice, calling itself the Spirit of Perfection, within his head.

The Apothecary Fabius sways Fulgrim into allowing him permission to conduct experiments toward perfection. Fabius seeks to enhance the gene-seed of the Astartes. Many Astartes, such as Lord Commander Eidolon, Captain Marius Vairosean, and Captain Lucius, submit themselves to receive augmentative surgery. (This cannot be good.)

Once Fulgrim joins the Warmaster's treasonous plans, Fulgrim tries to coax Primarch Ferrus Manus to their cause. When Fulgrim fails battle lines are drawn. Fulgrim and Ferrus Manus stand on opposing sides. Only one can be allowed to live.

**** Author Graham McNeill simply skims over the battle on Isstvan III. After all, it has been told twice already from two different point-of-views. The previous stories focused on battles on planets or ship corridors. First these were against the Emperor's enemies. However, this one focuses on the corruption of art and the secret desires of Battle Brothers. No fights between reanimated Astartes this time. No, the dark forces of Chaos bring the blood and gore to the opera house this time. This, for me, is the best part of the book. McNeill brings the nightmare to vivid life before continuing the blood bath elsewhere. The book starts out slowly, but the pace picks up quickly. By the ending readers will find themselves holding their breaths and sitting on the edge of their seats. A great addition to the saga! ****

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

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David Barnett

The Full Grim...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 3, 2021

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Five books into the Horus Heresy series and we arrive at the downfall of The Emperor's Children. A combination of prequel, side-quel and sequel to the events covered in previous books, the book treads the fine line of avoiding the retread mostly with success.

The quest for perfection and the dark road it takes its characters down are thus the main thrust of the tale. It's the fatal flaw by which Chaos takes root and grows into awful magnificence. Moreso than previous novels, this one really layers the decline of once-proud figures as they degrade into malignancy.

As with the author's previous effort in the series, it's written well and these characters are given their own distinctive niche in the unfolding tale of betrayal. It's the fall of Rome in space in all it's luxurious, decadent splendour. As befitting the subject matter, the writing really evokes the sensory experience of resplendent finery and indulgent excess.

Where perhaps this book struggled for me was innthe pacing. Interweaving previous events without simply recapping them it does a praiseworthy job of adding new angles on the material but I think it did slow it down a touch especially in comparison to the previous efforts. It never drags to be sure but there are sections where the pacing definitely takes a hit as a result.

Overall it's another strong recommendation for me. A distinctly different perspective of the 40K lore done well with moments both inspired and shocking. Go read it.

MartinC

Dull, derivative with 2D characters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 18, 2021

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This is by far my least favourite of the series so far. The characters are inconsistently written and are far too simplistic and 2 dimensional to hold my interest. The battle scenes went on and on without ever getting interesting and the incessant comparisons of the legion to the English romantics was heavy handed. I forced myself through the whole thing for the sake of not missing anything of the story arc, but frankly would have paid to read a 5 page summary of the highlights instead.
If you skip this book you won’t miss much it turns out.

If the series so far, while I’ve enjoyed chunks here and there, I’m coming to the conclusion that if Primarchs are all this stupid & easy to manipulate, then I dread to think how moronic the Emperor must have been if he passed on his best traits to them all…

Very disappointing.

T. Alexander

Perfect Corruption

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 9, 2015

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The Emperor's Children and their Primarch Fulgrim are one of the most celebrated Space Marine Legions of the Great Crusade, renowned for their constent search for perfection both on and off the battlefield. However, as the galaxy moves inexorably towards civil war dark forces begin to move and their plans for the Emperor's Children can only lead to total corruption and a betrayal of everything they hold dear.

As the name suggests, this fifth book in the Horus Heresy series details the fall from grace of the Primarch Fulgrim and his Legion, the Emperor's Children. The book is relatively well written and easy to read managing to be very compulsive, and I probably got through it faster than some of the previous Horus Heresy novels despite its length (more than five-hundred pages). The battle scenes were easy to follow and although some may have lacked a little energy they were all greatly entertaining, especially the climactic Drop Site Massacre on Isstvan V, which was suitably epic in scale (although it probably could have done with more than a couple of chapters if I am honest), and the duel between Fulgrim and Ferrus Manus, which was a tragic yet exciting showdown.

On the downside, the narrative can be a little choppy in places, jumping forward in time repeatedly when a little more time should probably have been spent on some things. The characterisation of some of the characters could also have been handled a little better, especially with Julius Kawsoron whose fall I didn't really feel was handled very well.

While not the best book in the Horus Heresy series, Fulgrim was a very entertaining read and is well worth a solid four stars.

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Mr. P. Lewis

hard work

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 11, 2023

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After the brilliance of the first 4 books, this was a slog. 500 pages, and only the last 80 or so really got going.
It’s not dreadful, but where I read the first 4 in a couple of days each, this took me more than two weeks to wade through.

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Arckenphel

A book fitting of a Primarch

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 14, 2012

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After reading some of the negative reviews of this book, I was rather apprehensive about reading this especially after reading the previous book, Flight of the Eisenstein, which I was very disappointed by, as I found that to be dull and laboured. So the thought of having another 100 pages on top of a normal Horus Heresy book was rather off putting to me. . .

But I persevered and I'm so glad I did! Once I started reading I couldn't put it down. I found there to be less characters in this book, so it was easier to keep track of who was who. The story overall was engaging and really enjoyable, seeing a legion and hero sub-come to the influences of Chaos. I particular enjoyed the remembrancers parts in the story (this time round) as they didn't overwhelm the book like in previous outings, and how their parts complemented/mirrored that of the legion. Although the book is a good dealer longer than normal, I found it told the story to the point and that it didn't go needlessly wondering off.

In short if you liked False Gods (and Graham McNeil), I think your'll really enjoy this book as it's in the same vein and style. In relation to the series this is my 2nd favourite book so far. I hope other books in the series are written/told like this . . .

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