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Fear to Tread
- The Horus Heresy, Book 21
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Series: The Horus Heresy, Book 21
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
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Since the earliest days of the Great Crusade, Sanguinius - angelic primarch of the IXth Legion - was ever among the closest and most loyal of Horus' brothers. But the Blood Angels have long kept their true nature hidden from the rest of the Imperium, and when the Warmaster hints that the key to their salvation may lie in the ruins of a conquered world, the sons of Sanguinius race to claim it.
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- S. Triandafillidis
- 17-01-19
My favourite legion but disappointing
I read the paperback version of this some time ago. At the time I felt that my passion for the Blood Angels Legion probably carried me through the book more than the story itself. I wanted to revisit the book and decided on downloading the audio version.
However, not only did I find that a second read didn’t improve things, but the book was even more disappointing due to the bizarre voice choices on some of the lead characters, notably Sanguinius. Put simply, none of the voices conveyed the blend that these guys have between being artists, who are compassionate for humans, contrasted with being phenomemal warriors whose martial expertise is respected and feared by the other legions.
To elaborate further on the story telling: this is possibly the first Horus Heresy book that’s supposed to define what the Blood Angels are really like. Sadly I found the depiction of who they are and how they fight to be generally underwhelming. The descriptions of the early battles, which are supposed to portray the shock and awe of the army, are flat and perfunctionary and language used fails to generate enough sense of a legion that is beautiful and artful in how it wages war and how it operates when not fighting, it’s compassion for the humans it’s supposed to protect nor for Its deep and terrible secret that threatens to destroy the entire legion.
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- D. Payne
- 07-06-18
Great story let down by the narrator.
If like me you're a big fan of the Blood Angels then this is a great book, giving insight into Sanguinius and the origins of the flaw they are well known for. Strong characters, and plenty of action.
However the audio format let's it down somewhat as, although the narrator is generally good at narrating, his decisions regarding the voices of the characters make it feel less grimdark and more like a children's book at times, and is occasionally inconsistent.
That said, I still enjoyed the book a great deal and would recommend it.
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- Mr T.
- 08-12-20
Enjoyed this one.
Pretty decent, enjoyed the story although the narration was occasionally a bit hammy. Overall would recommend.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-10-20
Great book
Just love how badass Sanguinius is.
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I want daddy Sanguinius to choke me like he choked Ka'Bandha.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-09-18
Epic story worth reading
A great book of the series. True plot along the main line finally featuring the angel.
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- Kindle Customer
- 15-08-22
Interesting story!
Some great screen time for Sanguinius and Raldoron. Lots of good lore regarding the IX Legion. Leads on nicely to The Unremembered Empire.
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- Mr Kevin R Bellamy
- 10-07-22
Love the book but…
I loved reading the book but the voice acting ranges from ok, to comedic, to irritating to just plain annoying. I’m so disappointed. How can such badass space marines sound anything but?
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- Dennis Garrido
- 15-06-22
Good enough if you want BA background info
You want to know more about the BA flaws and Signus battle, can you ignore the mediocre performance? Give this book a listen. Are you someone who cringes with weird voices and get infuriated by it? Are you someone who doesn't bother with the background of the BA and doesn't care about Sanguinius? Then skip it.
I had skipped this book after reading the reviews about performance and story. After the story arc of Imperium Segundus I got curious enough about the Signus Prime story since it got hinted to several times. I also wanted to know more about the BA backstory.
My itch got scratched with this story. I'm no BA fan but I wanted more information about the legion, its flaws and the Signus cluster battle and I'm satisfied.
The negative reviews about the performance I can understand, however if you're like me and "accepted mediocre performances in favor of stories" then you can ignore it (since many HH audios have mediocre performances..).
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- Andras Markotan
- 25-04-22
Love the Horus Heresy, but this one dragged
Struggled to finish this one. All good, but I had to rate it lower than the others. It dragged on a bit too much, battles at the end were ok, but the descriptions and the conceptualization of the deamonic forces of chaos were not very exciting. This could have been condensed to half the length in my opinion as I read this and conveyed the same message and been more of a page turner. Looking forward to the next book in the series, feeling like I can finally move on *as I did not want to skip anything on my journey to read through the entire Horus Heresy
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- steven
- 13-04-22
very good
great listen as have most of the heresy. with its share 0f bolter porn .
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-12-18
Not the best
Definitely one of the least interesting of the Horus Heresy titles I've read. The narrator's silly voices are a bit too much, especially the voice he gives Sanguinius. The story is fine, but flatly good vs evil. Blood angels stumble around beleaguered by demons invoked by Horus. Horus only appears as a psychic ghost twirling his mustache and channeling Palpatine from Star Wars. This is the only book I've read about Sanguinius and it makes him seem incredibly inept and impotent.
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- Adrian Lopez
- 03-06-20
Skip this one.
I love 40k and have listened to dozens of these audiobooks. At its best the lore is gripping, at its worst it’s a slog. This was painful to get through. This and Devastation of Baal have altogether ruined the Blood Angels for me. Normally a book that centers so much on a Primarch is bound to be interesting, but this depiction of Sanguinius is us being told how great and noble he is, without giving giving us material to inspire that opinion within us. Authors like ADB have made previously derpy Primarchs like Lorgar and Angron really compelling characters. This was just eminently forgettable, I was waiting for it to be over. And while I normally respect Gareth Armstrong’s level of vocal acting very much, this was perhaps the work of his I’ve enjoyed the least. His Slaaneshi demon was cringeworthy, and not in the good way. Again he’s a great talent, if you do listen to this please don’t judge him by this work.
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- Ogre
- 02-12-21
Horus heresy era and 40K blood angel the same?
this book is ridiculous. Sanguineous apparently can command a ship not to break apart when it crashes imto a planet. I get that blood angels have rage issues. but come on. this is the first blood angels book I've listened to, and it kind of makes me not like them.
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- Chris Vavra
- 08-06-21
Very little substance
At this point we are over 20 books into the Horus Heresy. "Oh man, other space marines are traitors" isn't going to cut it any more for the premise of an entire book. I get it, the Blood Angels are surprised by demons existing and other Astartes being traitors. But come on. We do not need another fluff piece about how a legion finds out about the heresy. I have read a lot of these books, not all in order and this is one of the few I decided I wouldn't finish. I was 10 hours in and quite frankly bored. Skip this one. There are so many better and more important books to read in the Heresy. Don't settle for this.
If you really want to read a Horus Heresy book about someone finding out about the Heresy, read Scars. Despite it being similar, the Kahn and his group are incredibly interesting and have some actual soul searching to do to find out what side of the war they will end up on.
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- Louis M. Gruber
- 22-05-21
perdy good
not a bad book or story. better than some others i've read. pretty enjoyable and a good chunk of lore.
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- Cody Meyers
- 16-08-22
Couldn't finish it... Never grabbed me
This book feels like it never starts... Had 3 hours left when I finally put it down cuz I still was not enraptured... The characters are too strung out to get invested in them... A shame
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- Anonymous User
- 29-06-22
Great story
The origins of tge Angel's great flaw. A must read for any Blood Angels fan (or any 40k fan).
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- Ron
- 21-05-22
Tied for worst 40k book I've listened to.
I've listened to a few dozen 40k novels and this is probably tied for the worst along with nemesis. I actually finished nemesis though. this is the first book I've ever been lost as to what was happening, or why.
I'm not the biggest fan of Gareth's readings, but for the most part he's oaky. This was his worst performance yet in my opinion. I know he can do better, and to be fair there was nothing to work with.
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- Nathan
- 16-05-22
A Weak Entry for the Heresy
A fairly mediocre showing by James Swallow is compounded by an uncharacteristically laughable performance by Gareth Armstrong. The premise of Sanguinis and his Blood Angels trapped in the Ruinstorm against the forces of Chaos is clumsily fumbled through by an author who didn't fully grasp the themes at play in the Heresy.
This book builds itself on the most basic understanding of the 40k era Blood Angels, providing little in the way of nuance for any of the characters involved. The most egregious example being this cartoonishly evil misinterpretation of Horus.
While it does have its moments of quality, Fear to Tread is a big disappointment for anyone excited for the 9th Legion's time in the spotlight.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-04-22
ok
soild black library book story kinda drags but makes up with action and fights