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Perturabo: The Hammer of Olympia

Primarchs: The Horus Heresy, Book 4

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Perturabo: The Hammer of Olympia

By: Guy Haley
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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Born to a life of political conflict, Perturabo was always considered a child prodigy among the people of Olympia - indeed, his philosophical and scientific works were beyond compare. But then, after his rediscovery by the Emperor and decades of thankless military campaigning on the Great Crusade, the primarch begins to resent his Legion's place in the Imperium.

When word reaches him of turmoil on his adoptive home world, he orders the Iron Warriors to abandon their campaign against the alien hrud and crush this emerging rebellion by any means necessary....

©2017 Games Workshop Limited (P)2017 Games Workshop Limited Adventure Military Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction Thought-Provoking Ancient Greece
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Perturabo has always been one of my favourite Primarchs and yet again Guy Haley Shows why! A beautiful tragedy of a son’s arrogance blinding him, and when he can see the truth it’s too late. Made all the more bittersweet if you’ve read the Siege of Terra, or the book in which the Heresy is revealed.

Incredible!

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a saddening tale of a deep character being forged in adversity that brings depth to Perturabo that enrich the rest of the terra series

great backstory to an oft misunderstood primarch

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A look behind the Iron helm of the Lord of Iron, the Iron warriors and characters Like first captain Forrix, who you may know from Storm of Iron.

Great book, good read and good voice actors.

Would Recocomned.

Great book, Engaging and good.

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I enjoyed this Primarch book thoroughly, I only wish it would have been a few hours longer. Around a third of the book is on Perturabo's background on Olympia, before he was found by the Emperor. Another third is of he's slide to darkness and the last is on the legion and Antioch. The background part was the most enjoyable and unlike some of the other books in the series, this one describes how the primarch meets the Emperor. If you're at all interested in Perturabo and the Iron Warriors, I would recommend this book. Overall I think the story was decent, even though somewhat predictable and the writing was good.

Thoroughly enjoyable dive in to Perturabo

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The 5th book I've read thus far of a series which seems to be following a bimodal distribution; that is either 1) great or 2) highly underwhelming. Like Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter, also by Guy Haley, this is the former.

The plot alternates between the young Perturabo struggling to forge his path on Olympia and the troubled primarch of the Iron Warriors pitted against the Hrud, perhaps the most horrific enemy of the 30k era. Perturabo is brilliant, he's misunderstood, he's antisocial. We get a real insight here into what makes him tick as well as an understanding of his greatest weaknesses.

There is a character-building scene near the start of the novel in which the young Perturabo discredits a religion of Olympia using an expert retelling of Plato's Theory of Forms (with a twist). This part was just excellent.

One of the good ones

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