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title = "Fulgrim - Graham McNeill"
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date = 2020-04-14
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tags = ["books", "reviews", "scifi", "fiction", "warhammer 40000",
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"horus heresy", "graham mcneill", "0 stars", "2020 challenge"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/957931.Fulgrim)
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It is the 31st millennium, and humanity is at the peak of its powers. As the
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Great Crusade, led by Warmaster Horus, continues to conquer the galaxy,
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Fulgrim, Primarch of the Emperor’s Children, leads his warriors into battle
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against a vile alien foe. From the blood of this campaign are sown the seeds
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that will lead this proud Legion to treachery, taking them down the darkest of
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paths of corruption. Leading up to the carnage of the Dropsite Massacre on
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Isstvan V, this is the tale of Fulgrim's tragic fall from grace.
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{{ stars(stars=0) }}
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Yes, I know I said I wouldn't read those books anymore. But I tagged them on
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my storage in "to be read" and, bored I decided to pick another one.
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And, this time, I'm not reading any more books of the series.
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Once again, the story moves backwards -- without telling you this -- to tell
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you a story behind some other character... well character*s* actually, 'cause,
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once again, a bunch of characters are introduced and them relegated to
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disappear in the background, like previous books.
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Maybe the author was trying to -- and yes, I know I said this of the previous
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book -- make some "Shadow of the Giant" type of connection between the
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stories. But, once again, it focus on things you already know, adding
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absolutely nothing to the main story. It is just noise around the original
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one. Besides, deep, complicated points are still unresolved: How the fuck did
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Erebus got into contact with the chaos? What the fuck is the chaos? This is
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open for three books (counting this one) and still no answer at all.
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The first book of the series introduced a character that had to live under the
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control of more powerful characters, which could give the reader some idea of
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the intricacies of the politics without ever talking about the politicians...
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And then suddenly everything was dropped and forgotten and now you have even a
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battle between two powerful entities -- the primarchs -- happening, like
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everyone else was just background.
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And boy, the general description of those primarchs is that they are a bunch
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of assholes. All of them. To the point that you start to believe that even the
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emperor, which command the primarchs, is also an asshole. They are so
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asshole-ly than, at this point of the series, I want the whole universe to
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burn, starting with the fucking damn Astares.
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Oh, and the great plot twist in the end can be seen from a mile, as long as
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you're paying half attention to the story.
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So... fuck it, the series is dead and buried for real at this point for me.
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I can't even recommend any of the book in the series at this point, so rubbish
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the story has become.
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