Fulgrim: The Palatine Phoenix (The Horus Heresy: Primarchs)

In the opening chapter I almost hated the book. If you're familiar with Fulgrim's character from the early Horus Heresy novels you'll remember that Fulgrim is an arrogant, quick tempered demi-god fully aware of his own superiority. He lives on adulation and the worship of his legionaries. A piece of that is on display as he makes his plan known to his chosen team and the current chapter master and that bothered me. I never cared for that part of Fulgrim's personality and the idea of an entire book devoted to that didn't excite me. But a few chapters in and I was hooked. Where Fulgrim's personality was first based on his self-perceived perfection and execution of that perfection in all things, this is set where he is still proving this to everyone and to himself. There's quite a few moments where Fulgrim questions his actions internally and even seeks advice, or at least validation of his ideas, from his legionaries and the iterator assigned to this crusade. (By the way, Primary Iterator Pyke is a fantastic character. Every scene she's in is easily stolen by her. Toe to toe with Fulgrim and she even has his measure at the end of the story.) THIS Fulgrim is a great character, I found myself wishing he ended up being one of the loyalist Primarchs. The overall story flows fairly well. It can be predictable but it's still enjoyable in how it's executed. The minor characters (the legionaries, mostly) are forgettable. I expected more from the chapter master as it seemed set up at first that Fulgrim needed to win him over in a way. But Fulgrim shines the brightest and that's what matters, this is his book after all. It's not my favorite Primarch book so far (Perturabo is still a solid winner in my eyes) but it was a great read once I got into it. I might thumb through this again when I'm bored.

All of the Primarchs books have been fantastic. They have a great way of making you relate to even your least favorite Primarchs. This one is no exception.

One of my favorite character focused 40k novels in the last few years. This book has quite a bit of information about Fulgrim and the Pre-Heresy Emperors Children. Book is written primarily from the perspective of Fulgrim which I absolutely loved and contains a strong story with well written characters. For a book that is only 217 pages long it is surprisingly detailed and exciting. Main plot involves the attempt to bring a world into compliance with only six hand picked warriors. Great book for any 40k reader and a absolute delight for anyone who is into the 3rd legion.

The pre break of Fulgrims character makes you wish even more they didn't ruin him. This is amazing! Fulgrim is awesome read it for sure!

A short book (around 220 pages) but well written an easy to get lost in. Extra great if you are a follower of slaanesh.

This book had an amazing start out of the gate. The parallels to the ancient world and the authors word play was fascinating. My main reason for giving this four stars was because the book dragged on and moved away from the normal “Horus Heresy” style. I understand this book is about Fulgrim but it gets stale when it starts to focus on Byzas instead of Fulgrim. I look forward to reading more about Fulgrim and his sons.

Fulgrim, "my brothers can conquer worlds with armies I'll show them I can do it with 6". An amazing story of how the emperors children and their leader Fulgrim plans to put them back on the map. A must read.

I loved this book as it gave me a better perspective of Fulgrim during the great crusade.

É un romanzo molto coinvolgente e spiega molti aspetti della saga di horus heresy. Presenta una grande varietá: azione a terra, nello spazio, intrighi e un crescendo che porta sul baratro la legione. Consigliatissimo

Une aventure de Fulgrim à ses débuts en tant que Primarque des Emperor's Children. Si l'histoire est plutôt sympa à lire, j'avoue mon désarroi, car je n'attendais pas du tout ça, après Fulgrim (HH5) et L'Ange Exterminatus. Car ici, point n'est question de la jeunesse de Fulgrim ou de son histoire ou de celle de sa Légion. On suit Fulgrim et une poignée de Marines à la conquête d'un monde par le biais de manoeuvres politiques, et si le tout termine en grosse bataille, on a l'impression que tout est convenu, sur des rails, et qu'il n'y a pas de place pour l'imprévu. L'histoire est agréable à lire et honnête, mais trop conventionnelle pour être inoubliable.

I loved everything about this book. The story and themes all come around perfectly in the end. During the middle you may think it strays a bit far from a true Warhammer 40k story, as it deals with more of a political war. However, come the end, you'll realise what the author wants to put across to you, with their choice of themes and story telling. Really loved reading this, especially as the Emperor's Children are one of my favorite chapters. Though I tend to bounce back and fourth between perhaps all of them haha.

So little Fulgrim wants to be hardcore but his brothers won't let him, so he promises to conquer a world with only 8 warriors and himself In the process he learns about the world's culture and "tries" to learn a lesson about perfection Despite all this it's still a fun read, we learn about much about Fulgrim's personality/past, his prime iterator and even Fabius gets some spotlight just don't expect to remember which legionary is which

This novella is emotional in that it makes you feel for Fulgrim. Even though he is now a traitor, you see the bridge and hope he was meant to be for the Imperium. You also see a more humbler side of him. One thing that annoyed me was the constant foreshadowing of his fall with the whole perfection stuff.