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Roboute Guilliman: Lord of Ultramar

Primarchs: The Horus Heresy, Book 1

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Long before the coming of the Imperium, the realm of Ultramar was ruled by Roboute Guilliman, the last Battle King of Macragge. Even after learning of his true heritage as a primarch son of the Emperor of Mankind, he strove to expand his domain as efficiently and benevolently as possible, with the XIII Legion Ultramarines as his alone to command.

Now, facing a rival empire on the ork-held world of Thoas, Guilliman must choose his weapons carefully - otherwise his dream of a brighter future could be lost forever.

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not as much action as I'd like still a great start to the series continue

wonderful

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I'm not sure if I had just come to expect a formula from the books in this series but this one was kind of disappointing. I listened to Angron's, Perturabo's, and Alpharius' respective novellas before this one and the differences are quite drastic. I thought these were origin stories but this one assumes a substantial amount of prior knowledge.

In each of the other ones there was plenty of narrative about their lives before being discovered, some interaction between them and the Emperor, some development of their legions after their introduction, etc.

In this book, all of that is already over. I already had a decent understanding of Guilliman as a character, but if I didn't already know about Macragge, and Calth, and Monarchia, etc. I would probably feel a little lost.

a bit of a let down

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Though short, I enjoyed most of it. The ending was lackluster however. There was a lot of buildup for a very standard ending.

Decent.

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I think the plot is supposed to shed light on a case where Guilliman, full of confidence and idealism, encounters disaster as a result of his own misplaced conviction in the righteousness of his actions? The story uses the device of trying to get you to believe and sympathize with the characters, who in the end learn a lesson, are initially in the right. However through out the story it continuously feels like you are being presented with evidence that they ARE in the right. The characters who they "learn" from in the end continuously make bad decisions, or employ weak and self serving justifications for thier actions, which ultimately leads to the disaster. I think the ending is meant as a compromise ending where everyone learns something, but it is disjointed and abrupt. It lacks a sense of coherence in that everyone arrives at thier final character revelations at the climax of the book because the plot required them to. Even then the revelations seem weak and not grounded in the events of the story. In my opinion this is the weakest of the primach books so far; it offers a weak plot and does not highlight flaws or nuisances of the 13th Primach like the other books do. Even as "bolter porn" it feels unsatisfying due to how much time is spent on setting everything up as a clash of ideals, ethics and morality.

Confusing story, with unsatisfying conclusion

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