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Fulgrim: The Perfect Son

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Fulgrim: The Perfect Son

By: Jude Reid
Narrated by: Andrew James Spooner
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Summary

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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The story is a good one, not quite up there with Horus Rising, First Heretic or Angel Exterminatus but it’s good. What really makes this is the VA, he is just so good. I almost believed Venger from Dungeons and Dragons was narrating parts of it

Not what I expected

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the book does a excellent job of re-introducing the emperors children and it characterises its main cast in a really interesting way, in a way that you feal how disgusting and manipulativ the EC are and less like the loveble Shakespeare characters they are in the Bile trilogi or Lords of excess. It should have been titeled somting along the lines of: Pleasure and Pain, the emperors children army launch hype book feat Fulgrim as he is not that big of a part of this book like in the Palatine Phoenix.

Emp children re-introduced

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A book about the primarch fulgrim who’s hardly in it! Instead we are treated to unknown characters that have no history or depth.

The lack of the primarch in the story

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Great novel and performance perfect for getting into the emperor’s children. The voice acting some of the best be heard

Perfect indeed

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Fulgrim doesn’t feature so heavily in the story, if the book had another title like ‘Tamaris of the Blades: Emperor’s Child’ then this would have been more suitable as the story is actually quite good if you don’t expect tons of new lore around Fulgrim. Expectation management GW!. Takes nothing from the author who crafts a good read, but still…

Nice listen but does nothing to expand the lore

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