This book is rated far too highly for shorts

Another one of the MANY books that are falsely advertised as the horus heresy. This is just another book of shorts that is labelled as the heresy series so they can justify trying to sell you an extra 15+ books that dont actually matter

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disappointing

One of my favourite authors and his previous work is gold, but I feel hes let this one down and concentrates more on theatrics and over the top dramatic gimmicks to explain situation rather than getting teeth into the story.

I also didnt enjoy the narrator.

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Feminism creeps in

The author is, in general, good.

High points here include the Molluch assault and Horus elements.

However, every unnamed character who is not a space marine is a female - and more often than not a Lucy Lui charateur. I would have expected better from Black Library, I come here to escape that nonsense.

Indicating men and women are no different is the height of feminist theory, and its obvious the author has swallowed it whole. Male characters are often killed off quickly or seen to be inept (excluding Space Marines). Luckily, due to the Universe, the author is limited in spreading his heinous, inaccurate ideology. Then again, perhaps 40k writers, shut out from the wider world, would be expected to spout this stuff?

Anyway, decent enough to listen through. Too many story archs for one book. Logon is portrayed to be an overly emotional white knight, which is annoying. Other than that, okay, but GM is on blacklist.

Progress

Moves the main story arc along nicely rather than just another pointof view or side story. well narrated.

Not bad, but nothing amazing.

I never got into this one, until the end. I felt there were too many names, events and complicated situations to make sense of. Not a bad one, but you really need to relisten som parts to puzzle it together.

boring

could not finish this book. I found every minute a struggle to get past for me

OMG

Absolutely fantastic. Love Loken and the knights Errant and the wolf is just awesome

Get Garro before this one!

it's a fantastic book but there's major spoilers in this one for Garro...I know it's 15 books later but trust me on this one, you'll be completely confused

Not bad but not great

While advancing the Hours Heresy story, this book feels like it was rushed, or it was meant as a trilogy like the first three books. There are so many characters and character arcs that I had a hard time caring for any one of them. And by the time the story returned to an arc I was previously interested in, I had already lost interest in that arc (like for example Horus's journey to the endgame). Also I feel that too much attention was given to the description of warfare and battles, so much so that by the time any battles finish I had a hard time remembering what was the battle fought for. This also means less time for character dialogue and development. One last gripe I have with this book is that it's climax was a bit disappointing in the way it was constructed, despite its major significance to the Heresy. It felt as if it was glanced over and then the story moved on.
All in all it's a good Heresy story but with a mediocre execution.

Astartes beginnings!

Lots of great lore and mystery unlocked by the war master, I have to say the more I read of the heresy the more I sympathise with the so called traitors

Great narration and superb tale