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ferrus thinking about fulgrim to calm himself down… man you are a FREAK!!!!!

prose is a bit cumbersome

we have reached the point in the novel where it becomes REALLY HARD to put down due to the fact that guilliman and mortarion are arguing again. i love family reunions.

if i shut the book now i can pretend they just had a big family reunion on nikaea

"His horned breastplate was thrusting and magnificent (...)" WELL OKAY. SURE.

man they got the WORST primarch combo for this compliance imaginable. yeah we got the warrior-poet who likes to roleplay as a barbarian king and actively makes everyone's life harder when he's around, a guy who would be happier in a 2000s evangelical church and the Personification Of Scientific Hubris. surely nothing will go wrong.

many thoughts...

HORUS SPOTTED

GOD SANGUINIUS IS SO COOL HES SO COOL HES SO COOL MY POOKIE MY PRINCESS MY DESTROYING ANGEL <33

honestly kind of struggling to parse out how i feel about this book. i find the choice to make this book an epistolary narrative for the purpose of it being a forbidden in-universe manuscript very interesting, but struggle to find a reason why give the job to a washed up remembrancer unless the purpose was to be able to obscure the contents should what he writes veer too far from imperial propaganda at the time.

the remembrancer "writing" this book going on a lengthy diatribe at the beginning of his manuscript abt the annoying way so many writers tend to be arrogant and then insisting HE isn't like that... chris wraight i know what you're doing

EXCITEDDD

ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH?
ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH?
ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH, TO TAKE THE BLAME FOR THIS?

at first i thought leman was gonna get his first of many humblings and learn smth but then he called the lion "boy" he deserves every horrible thing that happens to him. PUT THAT BLONDE MAN IN THE TORMENT NEXUS!!

bro is mad as hell he has to work with the lion

interesting lore bits in here...

girl help they put me in the leman russ mines and forced me to read about leman russ

SANGUINALIA MENTION

plot begins to fall apart again here due to being sloppily put together post un-fanfic-ing

this book is actually kinda fun when it stops trying to justify itself and just lets itself be two broken terrible people trying to find a crumb of happiness amid their shit reality

'"(...) a new set of manacles."' omg she put a stupid mythology gag in her published fanfic

see this book has some good scenes and some well written stuff in it and then between it is a whole bunch of bullshit. essentially.