Fulgrim: Visions of Treachery (Horus Heresy)
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Very good, but sometimes confusing.
Review date: 2008-12-01 Rating: 8 out of 10
Sorry for being short, but it was a very good book that I liked a lot and I thoroughly recommend. The final battle is extremely good, as is the rest of the book. However, I did not understand(some or most of you probably do understand, so its probably just stupid me, but anyway)the play scenes in which as far as I understood a painting made everyone starting attacking each other and everything turn into a mush. However, don't let this put you off, a great book.
Reviews
Fulgrim
Review date: 2008-10-23 Rating: 4 out of 10
I disagree with the other reviewers I didnt enjoy this book at all and unlike most of the books in this series I quickly got bored of it. I like the battles but in this they were quite boring and not described very well.
I like Luius alot but in this we didnt get to hear any of his remarkable
swordsmanship.
The best in the series so far
Review date: 2008-09-19 Rating: 10 out of 10
This whole series is excellent, but this one has been my favorite so far. The author was not afraid to delve into the kind of depravity and excess that Slaanesh is all about and really got across the seductive technique that was used to turn one of the emperors own sons against him, and without giving it away, the final damnation of Fugrim to Slaanesh in the battle was breathtaking. I reviewed Horus Rising too and commented on the depth that these books add to an already great story, and its the clever details of the corruption, the subtle manipulation and coersion of the chaos gods chaos that really adds to it all.
Best of the bunch so far
Review date: 2008-01-14 Rating: 8 out of 10
If you've read any of my other reviews you will see my biggest issue with this series is how rambling and poorly edited they are. Indeed the promised show down mentioned at the end of book 3 finally happens here at the end of book 5. But finally the promise of book 1 is realised 4 books later.
So here we have the fall from grace of Fulgrim. Now of all the Chaos Gods Slaanesh is always the most intriguing. It is the god of lust and decadence and while you can see marines falling for the bloodlust of Khorne (less so for the decay of Nurgle) the idea of a decadent fall sounds very human. After all how many warriors have been suckered by feminine charms and a comfy sofa rather than years on horseback fighting through the mud?
It's all done very well and very convincingly. With tiny hints and quirks at the start of the book being full blown perversions by the end. It also drives the story along (a bit) and has a satisfying ending (first one to do so). Definitely the high point.
The epic finale of the battle of Isstavan V is very well described and turns it into a real page turner. However the one thing that made me smirk is that while the blood and guts is all very explicit it suddenly gets rather coy when it comes to the matters of sex.
This is a shame if you're going to do a book about Slaanesh then I'm afraid you're going to have to talk as much about genitals as you are about guns but whether this is style was done not to scare younger readers (although apparently skinning people and using their skin as decoration on your armour won't given them nightmares) or whether the worries would be that it would lurch into the area of erotica- which would not be inappropriate considering the subject matter I don't know.
Overall the best written the most gripping and the most ambitious book so far.
Pleasure for pleasure's sake.
Review date: 2007-07-16 Rating: 10 out of 10
When I reviewed Graham McNeill's "False Gods", his previous book in the Horus Heresy series, I accused him of wasting the Primarch Fulgrim. Fulgrim only featured in one scene in "False Gods", but now McNeill has rewarded him with the longest single novel the Black Library has ever printed. Indeed, the scene that featured Fulgrim in "False Gods" is represented in this novel, with subtle differences as the story is explored from Fulgrim's perspective.
"Fulgrim" is magnificent. As a dedicated follower of Slaanesh, I feared that the depiction of Fulgrim's perfect space marine chapter and its descent into the worship of the chaos god of licentious excess could easily be bungled. Games Workshop has shied away from Slaanesh of late - for whilst bloody violence is accepted by society, sex is still taboo. McNeill, however. handles Fulgrim's fall from grace extremely well. Crowley, Wilde, and Blake all appear to be reference points for this highly literate Warhammer novel, in particular Blake who is present in paraphrase and also quoted directly at one point (suffice to say I will not bother to make myself explicit for the idiot). The whole vista of Slaanesh's depradations are on display in the form of one character or another, and there are some extremely impressive and wonderfully ornate set-pieces. This book has everything you'd hope for from a Horus Heresy novel, and is probably the best volume to date.
Since this novel extensively expands the character of Fulgrim from his depiction in "False Gods", I am hopeful that the previous book's two other Primarch cameos - Magnus the Red and Angron - will one day be gifted with a novel of their own by McNeill. And I hope they will be as good as this volume. McNeill strives for perfection in his writing as much as the eponymous Fulgrim does in his labours, and the results are worthy of much praise. Praise for the Prince of Pleasure! Pleasure for pleasure's sake!
Product Details/Specifications
Authors:
Graham McNeill
Recording label: Black Library
Manufacturer: Black Library
EAN: 9781844164769
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey decimal number: 813
ISBN: 1844164764
Number of items: 1
Number of pages: 512
Publication date: 2007-07-02
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Published)
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