Primarchs Books 3 Magnus the Red - BL's release strategy

[HeritorA]

Magnus LE is an amazing book from the point of shining cover, red dusty pages and good box.

Magnus LE is a good book from the point of prose and story, but I can't call it great.

McNeil had some truly magnificent moments in the novel - covered in adventures and human spirit, logistics and kindling flames of knowledge.

But eventually it does not give you anything except some additional 'fillerish' view on Magnus, Thousand Sons Legion Pre-Heresy and Iron Warriors Legion.

There are some inconsistencies that made in the book - especially with the Thousand Sons Legion.

Maybe I'm just tired of fillers. Maybe I do not invest so much emotions in the characters I had so much knowledge about already and then I know how they will fare in the future and end up eventually.

But - that's a TS Legion much earlier before the 'TS' novel. Ahriman character is a simple Astartes whose ability was just discovered by Magnus.

And they are soooo naive that I can't take it seriously. An interesting thought is that none of them remember several months time after Magnus healed them from the sickness.

Plus we haven't seen the real routes of Magnus/Perturabo friendship. It's popup right from the start.

Perturabo on the other hand seems very naive, agonisingly loyal to the Emperor (lol) but with that cruel streak that will blossom from Davin and further on.

Also McNeil continue to use his characters from W40k 'Ultramarines/Storm of Iron' novels. For example we again had Forrix almost on the first line etc.

In general it's a very complicated book - it is good, but I can't call it awesome.

[HeritorA]

From the preview of Perturabo by Haley at Horus Heresy Weekender I now definitely want to read the 4th book. Add to that hrud migration and you would get a lovely story.