Fulgrim: The Perfect Son

Warhammer 40,000

De: Jude Reid

Narrado por: Andrew James Spooner

A Warhammer 40,000 Audiobook

For too long the Emperor’s Children have been denied their birthright. Their once-glorious Legion has been fractured into disparate warbands, condemned to ravage world after futile world in the pursuit of ambition and excess. But no longer.

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Fulgrim has a simple job for his sons, but what happens when it turns out to be far more complicated than it seems? Dive into the fractious nature of the Emperor's Children when things aren't quite going their way – rife with arrogance, internecine conflict, and divergent viewpoints.

THE STORY

Lord Fulgrim – ascended Primarch of the III Legion, the Perfect Son, the Emperor-in-Waiting – has issued a challenge to his scattered warriors: vanquish the Imperial world of Crucible, and bring him the head of the Black Templar charged with its defence.

But Fulgrim’s plans go far beyond the conquest of a single planet, and what should have been a swift and bloody offensive turns into a gruelling siege. With success uncertain, a world in flames around them, and the Legion turning their weapons inwards as well as out, the would-be champions are forced to confront a bitter truth. What must they sacrifice for victory and the favour of their Primarch, and what will be left of them when the war is over?

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Its fun but disappointing

Yet another example of GW glazing loyalist space marines in the books that is not about them. This story is fun sure I was not bored but it's frustrating that this keeps happening. GW really needs to pull away from space marines a bit. Like half the book would not had happen if the emperor children was not uncharacteristically incompetent.

I hope your ready for nothing

Performance was great the book itself is just nothing . Bunch of one and done characters who will never be mentioned again on a meaningless planet. This book should be called emperor’s children versus Black Templar and oh fulgrim is also kind of around.

pretty good, but isn't from fulgrim 1st person POV

the book was really good and temaris's story from start from to finish truly embodies the irony of the emperors children. always striving to achieve a goal but once achieved it feels hollow and wish they never bothered. the only downside like Many others have pointed out is I was expecting the story to told by fulgrim POV and also tell us what's he's been up to in the last 10k years but instead he's just kinda there and comes off as a total side character.

Don’t know how this got less than 5 stars

So So good. Alright maybe it’s called Fulgrim and he’s not the MAIN character but you can feel him pulling the strings throughout the entire book and when he does appear, it will make your SKIN CRAWL. The performance is amazing and the effects they use for fulgrims voice, you really feel the dread of a Primarch. And it’s an interesting look at the emperors children and the story is super interesting. And the performance is just so good. Listen to it!!

It's alright

so, I have many things I want to say about this book but I'll keep it short. When this book came out I think a lot of EC/Fulgrim fans expected a story like Horus Heresy 5: Fulgrim, a story that is told mostly from the perspective of fulgrim. The problem here is that the story bounces between 3 groups, an EC character, The Emperor's Champion, and some guardsmen. With the title naming Fulgrim and having him in the cover, it creates this idea that he will be front and center, but instead it's more like Fulgrim is just there watching. With the "twist" at the end it gives you this feeling that the author is Fulgrim and just laughing that you thought this book was gonna be an amazing Fulgrim story we would all love. Instead, the character in the ending essentially feels like the listener, empty.

Now, this doesn't mean the story is strictly bad, in fact quite the opposite. If the book was titled "Crucible" then this would have sold less, but would have never been such a massive disappointment. The expectation of a book with this title is massive and to have it be such a mundane story is such a shame. Th ending really solidifies how the listener feels about the title itself.

The thing that sucks is the characters and their story arcs are actually really interesting and their finale makes me want a miniature of them and their own story to evolve but because of how this book is presented, it just tells me none of this will happen and it will all be tossed aside. It's unfortunate that a story like this was basically wasted for no reason other than some hype sales.

if you read this and decided to listen to the book, just know that Fulgrim is in the story and plays his role, but the book is not going to give you any satisfying story or development of any Fulgrim stuff and is often quite boring and lacks ambition. It has its moments but it's just kind of a mid book. If you have other things you want to buy and listen to, come back to this one. if you haven't read Renegade or just want some Fulgrim, go read other books because this is just a generic EC story where Fulgrim likes to poke his nose into things before vanishing for 3 chapters.