Angron: The Red Angel (Warhammer 40,000)

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I enjoyed the character writing, but the pacing and changes in perspective made it hard for me to really get into the characters. They live in a wholly different world than the rest of the Imperium and Guymer lays it all out in this book. Also, for a book whose title claims to be about Angron, there was very little of the primarch in the novel. They could have been larger than life characters, but boiled down as they are to big, stompy, angry men, they sort of blur into one.

he’s a villain rewarded with anger, who then becomes a bit more angry, and makes people around him feel jolly cross as well. THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG, THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES and the names of the characters, items, events and places therein are trademarks of The Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Middle-earth Enterprises under license to New Line Productions, Inc. Parts are easy enough to follow, others made me question whether the intention was to give the reader an impression of how the butchers nails feel. Equally consumed by Angron’s mere existence, they at least have different ideology to the rest of the cast.

A deeper character study of Angron is something I think I would have enjoyed more (and is possibly what his Horus Heresy-era novel is more in line with) but given what little I know about the man, perhaps it is wise to keep him off the page for as long as Guymer does. Now, that may not be a type of character I usually find interesting, but there are interesting things you can do with such characters. On the surface you have the World Eaters and their battles against the Grey Knights, but below that you also see how being reunited with their father figure changes the World Eaters – no matter how much they might hate him.

All we ask is the product still be in its original packaging and you have your proof of purchase and we'll be happy to help. My interest dipped a few times, but that might have been my mood more than any fault of what Guymer wrote. In a way, it’s strange that I’m so happy jumping on board at the end of the story rather than climbing on at the beginning with so many others. David: There are three core Chaos Space Marine characters in Angron: The Red Angel , who each represent different points along the spectrum.

Because it felt like the true point of this book was to make you understand how the nails feel and operate. Marooned on a worthless moon with a rag-tag band of traitors as despicable as himself, Ortan Leidis of the Angels of the Grail dares to dream of something greater. It explores the twisted brotherhood of the World Eaters, it shows how horridly enslaved they are and how desperately they hate Angron - just as much as they're still mad for his attention. In the darkness of Imperium Nihilus, across half a million worlds cut off from the dim light of Holy Terra, a beacon is lit. Perhaps equally great is that the Grey Knights eat up a lot of pages, and I didn't realise just how much I'd missed reading about them.

The rest of it focuses solidly, absolutely on several different portrayals of the World Eaters past, present and future without leaning hard on 'big names'. Half a galaxy away, Graucis Telomane of the Grey Knights has been readying himself for this day, and plans six centuries in the making are finally set in motion – plans that will see the eradication of the Emperor’s greatest mistake once and for all. I do think that it does add to the plot however, for there is not much that can really be done with Angron post-heresy story wise.There are a few nods to Aaron’s The Emperor’s Gift , as some of the events that took place there – and the consequences of Angron’s last banishment – have a big part to play in The Red Angel . Given that his name is in the title, you would expect him to be more prominent, and while he is central to the story, he is not the focus. I really had no clue how they would pull off an Angron novel going into this and I was pleasantly surprised that they were not overly reliant on the Grey Knight perspective. He is wholly animalistic, wholly driven by Khorne, and there is nothing left of the Primarch that once was.

It's the most unreserved, honest critique of Angron in any text I've seen and it does not pull a single punch. And I really liked how they use the "creature feature" rule of just giving glimpses of Angron here and there throughout until that final big juicy reveal. Like Mike Brooks’ Harrowmaster this book shows just how a legion operates after 10,000 years of conflict - the appeal of the World Eaters to fallen Astartes is made clear, and Guymer also manages to plausibly show how so many of the original frothing maniacs manage to survive to continue the Long War.It depicts the titular Primarch as less a character and more an elemental force and shows the impact that his presence has on his followers, which is a really effective approach.