A bad portrayal of the Flesh Tearers

A one dimensional boring look on the Flesh Tearers making them more like chaos then imperial. Everyone is just being angry and doing stupid things like killing all their human helpers.

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A vile chapter

The flesh tearers come across as bad as any chaos company. They clearly care not for mankind. Sanguinius weeps.

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The serfs nightmare

This might have been an OK story if it wasn't for the endless killing. These guys are worse then the world eaters ,without the excuse. Ex comunicatos this annoying chapter of space marines.

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dissapointed to be dissapointed :(

I am a big Flesh Tearers fan so was naturally very excited to listen to this book however I was hugely disappointed sadly, It took me a while to get through this one, I struggled to stick with the narrator if I am honest, the voice acting is brilliant but I struggled to distinguish some characters at times, the narration felt a little 'school teacher' also, so I often found my mind drifting which meant I had to re-listen to chapters.

Story itself was slow to get going and I think a lot of it I missed because as mentioned I struggled to stick with the narrator on this one but forced myself to finish it out of love for the chapter.

If you aren't a fan of flesh tearers I wouldn't recommend this to you, if you are I would just advise that you prepare yourself for a hard listen but try to take joy into the insights of the chapter and its home planet when they come up.

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Angry Marines: The Novel.

The flesh Tearers are always portrayed as barely holding on to the humanity, and this book puts that across, but I feel it went over the top with it. Whilst they are known to be angry and one of the most violent chapters, they are still sons of the Great Angel and should have more about them than just “me angry, me no like what you say, me want to crush you, me thirsty, you look tasty”.

Maybe with the being Primaris could be an excuse as they do not have the grounding a first born raised on cretatia would, surrounded by the chapters home world and history.

Hopefully there is a follow up so we can see if being on the home world does indeed ground and stabilise these angry boys.

Narration is good, it’s not Toby Longworth good, but it’s still good.

Pacing of the book is slow.

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Primaris learn how to Flesh Tearer

I sat and read through a load of the reviews before nervously using my monthly credit.
Honestly, I loved the book, and I find that the bulk of the reviews aren't appreciating the situation of the story.
Primaris marines going from unnumbered sons, to become flesh tearers, acting in a way they believe FT to be, before coming to learn what it truelly means to be the second sons of Sanguinius.
Yes, there is a lot of anger, borderline petulance, and distain for the mortals around them, but not to the scale described in many of the reviews.
100% worth a listen!

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wasted opportunity

an extremely disappointing Flesh Tearerers story with forgettable characters.
was hoping for more. waste.

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ITGDoTFF, there is only MEH

Some good moments, and for the first half of the book it truely looks at how desperate the Flesh Tearers can get in terms of their survival (despite a rather stupid 'logistical' decision made by Dante/ Seth at the start of the novel that sets them up for failure). It sets itself up for some serious introspection for a Chapter reknowned for control issues who are struggling to do better, especially as it's a company of Primaris of all things. By the end, it turns into a caricature of angry marines being stupidly angry where, as someone else said, i was left hoping for the Flesh Tearers to fail.

When your protagonists have absolutely no redeeming characteristics whatsoever (or even base likeability ala 1st Claw from the Night lords novels), it turns into a grind.

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RUBBISH

This is one of the "Space Marine" battles type books that comes across as if it was written by a twelve-year-old on meth.

It has no interesting lore, no character development, no build-up of story, no core characters, no clever twists and turns, no humour and is soooooooo grim dark it just comes across as lame - like when you're trying way waaaaaaaaaay too hard to be cool.

And trying to "cure the thirst" ... I mean come on... like really. Primaris or not, Dante and Mephiston and Cawl all know that the thirst is metaphysical. It isn't in the gene-seed. It can't be cured. It is part and parcel of the Blood legacy... but whatever.

Everyone is unlikeable, they are just moody man-children, that are bad-tempered and complete idiots. I was glad when this book ended and I have listened to hundreds of books from the franchise.

Black Library, hang your heads in shame. It's like you let someone write about the flesh tearers when they hadn't even read the previous blood angels books ... and I even mean the bad Deus series from a few years back, so they could swear to never allow such bad writing to happen again.

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Great book

Great book really enjoyed the insight into the chapter
They lack their BA brothers class and nobility

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