Fulgrim: The Perfect Son

Warhammer 40,000

De: Jude Reid

Narrado por: Andrew James Spooner

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.

LISTEN TO IT BECAUSE

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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It's alright

so, I have many things I want to say about this book but I'll keep it short. When this book came out I think a lot of EC/Fulgrim fans expected a story like Horus Heresy 5: Fulgrim, a story that is told mostly from the perspective of fulgrim. The problem here is that the story bounces between 3 groups, an EC character, The Emperor's Champion, and some guardsmen. With the title naming Fulgrim and having him in the cover, it creates this idea that he will be front and center, but instead it's more like Fulgrim is just there watching. With the "twist" at the end it gives you this feeling that the author is Fulgrim and just laughing that you thought this book was gonna be an amazing Fulgrim story we would all love. Instead, the character in the ending essentially feels like the listener, empty.

Now, this doesn't mean the story is strictly bad, in fact quite the opposite. If the book was titled "Crucible" then this would have sold less, but would have never been such a massive disappointment. The expectation of a book with this title is massive and to have it be such a mundane story is such a shame. Th ending really solidifies how the listener feels about the title itself.

The thing that sucks is the characters and their story arcs are actually really interesting and their finale makes me want a miniature of them and their own story to evolve but because of how this book is presented, it just tells me none of this will happen and it will all be tossed aside. It's unfortunate that a story like this was basically wasted for no reason other than some hype sales.

if you read this and decided to listen to the book, just know that Fulgrim is in the story and plays his role, but the book is not going to give you any satisfying story or development of any Fulgrim stuff and is often quite boring and lacks ambition. It has its moments but it's just kind of a mid book. If you have other things you want to buy and listen to, come back to this one. if you haven't read Renegade or just want some Fulgrim, go read other books because this is just a generic EC story where Fulgrim likes to poke his nose into things before vanishing for 3 chapters.

It's just fine, not enough of the titular character.

This handles well. fulgrim, black templars, emperor children, P.D.F., Demons, and cultist. The Guard are strange, the chaff are stronger, the kaserkin are weaker, no male characters have rank above foot solider. The mechanicus are barely in this.

The end was grimdark enough but so unsatisfying

Not About Fulgrim.

Emperor’s children side story, oh and Fulgrim says he’s back. No returning characters or setting changing stories.

Great performance. Great book

No complaints. You will enjoy this book. Reader did a great job with different effects

The perfect representation of the corruption of the emperors children

I liked the story the prefirmance was good and over all its a perfect book

Great voice work, ok story

Story was ok but I really don't see what the point of it was. Didn't advance the setting in any way that I could gather but I don't think that was Jude's fault. Would have been better as just an EC story instead of a Primarch release book. Felt like GW wanted to do the release of Fulgrim and EC so they had Jude write something that didn't affect anything other than saying Fulgrim gathered his legion. Really confusing. I will say that I hope they let Jude work on a Fulgrim novel that ties in with Guilliman and The Lion because she did write him and the EC wonderfully.

I'll be really disappointed if this is how they handle future Primarch returns. They did Guilliman and The Lion well, but, if this is how they're going to do it from here on out, then it's going to be a really long few years.

Narration was phenomenal, though. Fulgrim sounded absolutely fantastic.

Skip

Solid book if it wasn't paired with Fulgrims return. Zero Fulgrim point of view. Only interesting overarching storyline progression is a hint towards a loyalist primarch return...in the chaos primarch return book. Yikes.

THIS BOOK IS A PARAGON OF THE PERFECT 3RD

the voice acting alone had me in ecstacy. Every time Fulgrim appeared he took stole the scene! The vibration of his voice truly feels as if you are feeling the full power of slaanesh feeling both amazing yet unsettling!!

strange way to bring back fulgrim

this would be an easy skip but the narrator actually did a really good job. when he does fulgrim it'll give you goose bumps but it's a weird novel overall

A downward journey of Humanity

You get to see the downward spiral of an Imperial world as Fulgrim manipulates both his own forces as well as the forces of the defenders and in the end you feel sorry for them all. No one really gets what they want and all is hollow in the end.