– Customer review on 23/08/2007

Brilliantly written Book from explosive gory action sequences, to thought provoking meanderings a good all round book even if youve never heard or know anything about the warhammer 40,000 Universe

– Customer review on 07/09/2011

this book was a great read, and the author does a great job in the delivery of the book. lets make this clear this is a book about Fulgrim and his legion and it begins before the events on Isstvan III, ive noticed alot of people are complaining about that the stories are repeating the event over and over but think for a second, if the author was to write a story post-Isstvan so early in the series then everyone would ask what happened to the story of Fulgrim's fall and the corruption of his legion? What led up to his corruption? Who was involved? all these questions are answered in this book and may i say they are answered very well!!

the only reason that i did not give this book a 5 star is the fact that it is a bit long but other than that be prepared to feel anger, hate, love and pity for this primarch as he falls from the light of his emperor

– Customer review on 17/02/2009

The Horus Heresy is now developing into a full-scale civil war across the Imperium with the Warmaster gathering all forces loyal to him and culling those still loyal to the Emperor. The planet Istvaan III is a smoking ruin but a far greater betrayal waits on Istvaan V. Fulgrim is the Primarch of the Emperor’s Children Space Marines, a proud legion drawn down the path to treachery by a chance encounter in an alien temple. ‘Fulgrim’ tells the tale of the gradual corruption of the Primarch, and his Legion, culminating in the decisive battle of Istvaan V and its ramifications for the rest of the galaxy…
The Warhammer 40K game and background history is so well known that anyone reading the series will know the final outcome. While this may not go far towards selling the series, its saving grace lies in the authors being given free rein to fill in any gaps in the history and take creative liberties with characters who are only names in a games manual. ‘Fulgrim’ is no exception in this respect. Graham McNeill paints a vivid, and sometimes disturbing, picture of a once infallible Legion’s fall from grace. Given that the Legion’s new patron deity is the Lord of Pleasure (and Pain) McNeill does not spare the reader’s blushes in some of the more descriptive passages and this lends a real crescendo to proceedings. Betrayal is a core theme throughout the book and is none more apparent than in the Primarch’s perceived betrayal by their Emperor (and father). There is a real sense of a childlike innocence being suddenly lost in scenes that are intense and strangely touching at the same time (in particular the Warmaster’s meeting with Fulgrim and then Fulgrim’s meeting with Ferrus). This character analysis isn’t just limited to the Primarchs, each marine under their command must make a similar choice…
This is a Warhammer novel so it was never going to be just emotional and ‘touchy feely’. Fans of intergalactic combat between armies numbering in the hundreds of thousands (plus giant robots!) will be pleased to know that ‘Fulgrim’ delivers all this in the epic scale that Warhammer and the Black Library are known for. You may know how the story is going to end but you will have fun getting there! The only thing that detracted from the story, for me, was the need to go back to events already mentioned, in previous books, and tell them again. This has been a recurrent problem resulting from perhaps too many authors getting involved in one story. We know what has happened before, we don’t need it in detail again…
All in all though, a good read. I’m looking forward to the next chapter.

– Customer review on 25/08/2007

In my own opinion Fulgrim is a man we can all relate too his greatest virtue turns to his greatest vice, The background for his fall from grace is well written as is he book in its entirety, With all the smatterings of violence and thought provoking subjects that makers a book readable a must for any Warhammer 40,000 fan or someone after a good book for the evenings all together good but not great