A solid prequel to a story I have yet to read but am much more interested in reading now that I have read this.

Story about the Ultramarines just being a bunch of nerdy wargamers essentially and I'm all here for it.

Just quite a dull book. I think you could just read a short summary and get everything you need without having wasted a few hours on a extremely mediocre book.

I enjoyed the non-combat aspects of the novel, they were nice to to read and interesting. Bit sad that a solid third (if not more) of the story was dedicated to combat, of course if you like that you'll probably think this story is better than I did.

Very solid story, normally I don't like the stories from the perspective of Primarchs but this one was nice.

Starts of slower than I enjoyed, but it got better towards the end. The prose was good, small pity the book could have been shorter as there were several parts which ultimately felt unnecessary.

I'm still quite early in my reading journey of the Horus Heresy (and Warhammer stories in general), but this was one of the first times I've truly felt like the Emperor is a villain. The hypocrisy and cherry picking was done very well.

The way the book was structured was sometimes a bit disruptive, but I did enjoy learning more about the origins of Lorgar.