The Primarchs Audiobook By Graham McNeill, Gav Thorpe, Nick Kyme, Rob Sanders cover art

The Primarchs

The Horus Heresy, Book 20

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The Primarchs

By: Graham McNeill, Gav Thorpe, Nick Kyme, Rob Sanders
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Sean Barrett, Jonathan Keeble, David Timson
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Created in the Emperor's own image, the primarchs had long thought themselves to be princes of the universe and masters of their own destiny - they led the Space Marine Legions in glorious conquest of the galaxy, and no enemy of the Imperium could stand against them. However, even amongst this legendary brotherhood, the seeds of dissent had been sown long before the treacherous Warmaster Horus declared his grand heresy.

Find out the deepest mysteries of the primarchs. Who is in control of Fulgrim's body - him, or a daemon? What happens when the Alpha Legion fights against itself? Just what secrets is the Lion keeping? And what could the tragic Ferrus Manus have done to prevent himself from becoming a head shorter?

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Outstanding Narration • Engaging Anthology • Excellent Performances • Alpha Legion Story • Compelling Short Stories
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If you like the Alpha Legion, get ready for one of the best short stories in all of 40k featuring them.

Great collection

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the rest of the series has random 2 minute rewinds, this book doesn't. probably because of the short stories. it's odd for none of the primarchs on the cover to not be in the book though..

this one isn't plagued by the 2 minute rewinds

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The first story pertaining to fulgrim is frustrating in its lore implications. I think I will just disregard it in my head canon because it makes no sense. Not a fan of that one or the first half of the iron hands story, but the latter half is incredibly good. The Dark Angels story was solid. The Alpha Legion story was very enjoyable.

Mostly good

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I loved all of these stories, especially the Alpha Legion one serving as the encore!

Great!

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Loved the stories. They were rich with lots of lore on the worlds of 40k. The four star rating on performance is because I wished the sections were better annotated.

Hydra Dominatus

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3 of the 4 stories I found underwhelming. But the Alpha Legion story redeemed the book :)

3 Misses, 1 Big Hit

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Really liked these short stories, and always, Hydra Dominatus brothers. More books like this would be fantastic.

Awesome stories

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I liked most of the stories except Lion El Johnson. That last story with the Alpha legion was enjoyable. Voice performance was excellent, especially the last story. Overall a 4.5!

Enjoyable, but some stories were better than others.

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As usual, most of these stories are pretty good, I have to say that the Fulgrim story was really bad. I gave the story a chance but I have to say a lot of it just didn't make sense. There was so much build up about Fulgrim being taken by the daemon in the previous novel, No spoilers but I would of preferred Lucious was correct.

Only one story didn't land

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Some of the stories are really engrossing, while others are dull and dont contribute much to the overall lore. overall 4 stars

The final story sheds a lot of light on the Alpha legions motivations and holds some big implications for the overall story

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