Book Review: Fulgrim

It took me 7 weeks to read Fulgrim. Not for lack of effort or interest in the book but due to the holiday schedule, out of town adventures and new year work schedule, but the book stands completed. My only regret is that I couldn't have just read the book over the course of a couple of days versus the few weeks. The book is adventurous, fast paced and incredibly action-packed, that just keeps getting better and better.

For the first time in the series, you find out what happens in detail about the Istvaan V drop landing massacre. Throughout the book you watch as a great Primarch is laid low by the forces of Chaos, the corruption of an entire legion and members of an expedition. Throughout is interweave with established timeline and even a couple of characters previously introduced that locks you into place in the historical timeline of the grim dark future, so you constantly know where you are and what is going on around the galaxy at this time.

The Eldar make a brief appearance and the whole concept on how childish humankind is when concerned with the warp and Chaos is truly revealed and yet again almost makes you want to side with Horus and the Heresy. After all with all these things you as the reader are learning about this timeline and epic story arc, you have to ask why did the Emperor leave the crusade? Why did the Emperor NOT warn his children, even with the knowledge he KNEW about the dark aspects of the warp?

These questions and more is what attributes this epic story arc of the Horus Heresy as such a phenomenal tale. You almost want to sympathize with the Heresy, yet you see how they slip from being the good guys to the root of evil. You see pride and ego taken to such distances that nothing good can rebound from it. Still you have to wonder why the Emperor stays silent.

A blast to read, Fulgrim had it all. It'll be a little while until I return with book 6 of the Horus Heresy series - or even any other 40K book. Vanilla reading books have been accumulating on the bedroom night stand, along with Christmas presents (more books) and I have some catching up to do. So I have at least 3-5 books to read before I return the world of 40K, but with a book such as Fulgrim being a "breaking" point, I'm already anxious to return.