Graham McNeill continues the Horus Heresy series with Fulgrim, focusing on the Emperor's Children and their primarch, Fulgrim. The book effectively portrays Fulgrim’s mental decline into obsession, while also featuring familiar characters like Lucius and Tarvitz, alongside new ones who, unfortunately, tend to blend together after a while. The opening takes a similar approach to the first pages of The Eisenstein, essentially repeating itself until it slightly improves. Overall, the book doesn’t start well, and I found it disappointing until Fulgrim's conversation with Ferrus Manus. At that point, the pacing picks up, only to falter again soon after. While McNeill shows clear improvement from his earlier installment, False Gods (#2 of the Horus Heresy), his ongoing pacing issues repeatedly pulled me out of the story. That said, the last 100 pages completely redeemed the book for me. They are nothing short of fantastic—easily the best piece of 40k writing I’ve encountered so far. Because of this, I’d give the book a very light 4 out of 5. Ohhh the tragedy, the drama, the betrayal

This book is just an amazing journey! It kind of starts slowly and describes the downfalls of the legion of Fulgrim. It starts gradually with the remembrancers and culminates in the battle on Istvaan V - the Drop Site Massacre. I highly recommend it, if you read the predecessors - otherwise here's a link to the start: [b:Horus Rising|625603|Horus Rising (The Horus Heresy, #1)|Dan Abnett|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1414166935l/625603._SY75_.jpg|611957]