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Ferrus Manus: The Gorgon of Medusa

Primarchs: The Horus Heresy, Book 7

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Ferrus Manus: The Gorgon of Medusa

Written by: David Guymer
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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The Great Crusade has swept across half the galaxy, a million human worlds now embracing the truth and reason that comes with allegiance to the rule of Terra. But even such unparalleled success comes at a cost.

Rumours abound that the Emperor plans to step back from the Crusade and raise one of his primarch sons to lead in his stead. Faced with the bitterly noncompliant human empire of Gardinaal and a leaderless host of Ultramarines, Thousand Sons and Emperor’s Children at his Legion’s command, the Iron Hands primarch Ferrus Manus decides to make an example that even the Emperor cannot ignore.

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Out of all of the loyalist primarchs, Ferrus Manus intrigues me the most as he and his legion get so little attention from gw in comparison to his brothers, so I picked this up hoping to gain a bit more insight into him.

Overall the story is quite good, with a good set of characters from both the iron hands and the emperors children who accompany them. There is even one non-astartes character I liked quite a bit.

Ferrus, however, feels a bit outshined by said characters, especially by one of the emperors children and even by one of his own. There is some good insight into Ferrus' mindset, ambitions and personality however, and the relationship described between him and Fulgrim is quite touching. It just unfortunate that the titled primarch does not feel like the primary focus of his own book.

I would still recommend this title though if you have any interest in either the iron hands as a whole or in the relationship they had with the emperors children pre-heresy.

A good read, though the focus seems off

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The amount of tension and grappling between legions differences had me quivering! Ferrus Manus is another very straight forward Primarch in war, like Perturabo or Vulkan, but not mindless like Angron Jonathan Keeble of course narrates this as well as the other primarch novels!

Bad Bromance

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not so good to make the spotlight legion, and to a lesser degree, their primarch, look like a bunch of failures.

iron ? hands

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