Shattered Legions

The Horus Heresy, Book 43

By: Dan Abnett, Chris Wraight, David Annandale, Gav Thorpe, Graham McNeill, John French, Nick Kyme, Guy Haley

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's Summary

Driven almost to the brink of self-destruction at Isstvan V, the Iron Hands now seek vengeance for the murder of their primarch Ferrus Manus.

Gathering survivors from the Raven Guard and the Salamanders aboard any vessels capable of warp travel, these Shattered Legions wage a new campaign of annihilation against the traitor forces across the galaxy - a campaign masterminded by legendary warleader Shadrak Meduson.

This Horus Heresy anthology contains 10 short stories by authors including Dan Abnett, Chris Wraight, John French and many more. Also, in the The Seventh Serpent, Graham McNeill revisits the ragtag crew of the starship Sisypheum as they are drawn into a war of subterfuge against the Alpha Legion.

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Wow!

This was a pretty solid adventure into the 40k universe. I was blown away by the pacing of the story, before I noticed I was inching up on 30mins left and was lamenting the ride was nearly over. It doesn't have a strong focus on the rest of the Heresy series, it's more like a spotlight being shown on the survivors of the drop site massacre and the effects on the greater narrative. Still, it's become one of my favorite books in the series. Give it a read if you love the Iron Hands.

Amazing

I have an Jesus wanted to learn about what all the fanfare is about WARHAMMER... I love these books

Many boring stories mixed with nice ones

Anything involving Shuriken and Wheylin is instantly wonderful from excellent writing and charecter development. Many of the stories felt quite dull in comparison

Raise the Storm

If you’re an Iron Hands fan this is a brilliant work I enjoyed to the end I’m sad it actually ends in an awful salamanders novel.

Great pack of small stories

The book provides some great shorter stories about the shattered legions that fill in what they were dealing/going through.

Shadrak Meduson of the Iron Xth

Shadrak is a Name worthy of remembering for many years to come possibly Eternal Yeah Definitely Eternal in the Iron Xth 2nd Only to The Gorgon.

Great for Iron Hands Fans

I liked a lot of the stories in this book some weren't the best but everything was voice acted incredibly well and I was very entertained the entire time.

It’s like red dawn but in space.

It was fun. But it’s not essential for your overall completion of the HH. Some of the stories drag on for far too long or shouldn’t be there at all.

Uncommonly bad

This is yet another short story collection, set in the aftermath of Isstvan and detailing the story of the Shattered Legions. Sadly, the overall quality is uncommonly poor, with several stories being more or less impossible to finish. Even the best stories in this collection only manage a dull mediocrity. This is unusual as I have found the other short story collections up to this point to have overall above average quality, there are usually some stinkers in every collection but also some true gems that pull the overall impression up. Not so with this one. Cannot recommend and will return.

A Fine & Relevant Collection

As the name implies, this covers the legions shattered at the Drop Site Massacre and related stuff but in a series of short stories that are mostly unconnected. While it doesn't involve the Emperor going on about his life story or anything particularly profound, Shattered Legions does offer perspectives of the Iron Hands centrally, Raven Guard, Alpha Legion, and a bit of Horus' boys.

Certainly worth a listen.

The flesh is weak!

...but this collection of stories endures! A fantastic collection of heresy era short stories from the various loyalist legions that managed to escape Istvan. Mostly Iron Hands but a nice little mix of everything. Well worth the price, was a great listen that gives you an idea of what happens to those few scattered groups of survivors.

I loved every second

It was the right blend of morose and vengeful. It was a little iron-hand centric. But throughly enjoyavle to listen to.

Better than expected!

I've read / listened almost every book in the series so far, but at first I thought I'd skip this one, since some of the earlier shattered legions stories have been somewhat boring or poorly executed. I'm glad I didn't skip this one though, all the stories followed the same arc and were well written and read. There isn't anything that you must know to follow the series in this book, but if you are at all interested in the Iron Hands and stories of defiance and never giving up, I would highly recommend this book!

Cannot remember a thing sadly

These collections are not for me, and honestly, i can't remember anything in these stories at the end. Bits and fragments only, so i'l leave it there. Narrating top notch as always.

Good look at what the iron hands we doing

Good source of background and flavour to what some of the shattered legions were doing.

Probably should not have been a main line HH book but does fill out the iron hands a bit, otherwise they would not be in HH at all.

Pure filler, but still enjoyable!

It's a shame that this series keeps jumping back out and basically covering the same ground again and again... Iron hands doing angry guerrilla stuff.

most likely skip it

Not awful but mostly filler, felt like nothing was vital to the overarching plot. I'd only recommend to die hard iron hands fans.

Enjoyed this so much more than I thought I would.

This reminded me of the original trilogy, much more heresy feeling than any of the recent siege of terra books imo. Heavy focus on Iron hands characters, with small salamanders and ravenguard bits, and some cool insight into the sons of Horus character Tybalt Mar at the end.

A must 👌 listen 🎶

Great look into the IRON Hands after the Istvan massacre and the loss of Ferrus Manus

The Iron 10th

Collection of mini stories that are a must to understand the Iron 10th. Just great