Angron: Slave of Nuceria: Slave of Nuceria (Volume 11) (The Horus Heresy: Primarchs)

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Angron and the World Eaters are a hilarious group of losers, who go on to replace dissension with cannibalism. Martin’ skillfully divulges the motivations and trials of the demigod, while also depicted him in a rare humane way. I've been ranking each book in this series because they have been of such varying quality its been kind of fascinating. This can work in a direct trilogy, but these are supposedly from seperate series in the same timeline. Within a single second Angron had torn both of his arms from their sockets and sent them flying through the air, before he lifted the Terminator from his feet and broke his head open against the ground.

From here on out we follow two different stories: The one in the present, where different factions within the world eaters argue over the butcher nails and wether or not to accept them. Since very young, Angron was captured by the noble houses of the planet he landed on and was enslaved as a gladiator for the entertainment of the masses. Angron has only been at the centre of one novel before, Betrayer, and a handful of short stories — most notably After De’Shea by Matthew Farrer, and Butcher’s Nails and Lord of the Red Sands by Aaron Dembski-Bowden (all three are collected in Angron). I love reading about a group of outrageously powerful human beings who are so obviously doomed to fail. More curiously still, there are multiple arguments made in favour of the Nails even by sane members of the legion, some of which are fairly compelling.

Angron is maybe only Primarch that did not manage to rule the world but lived in its gladiatorial pits and entertained the populace by fighting with the other gladiators. The way the story weaved back and forth from the past to the present through Tethys eyes was really unique and I enjoyed it quite a bit.

This books doomed cause was a legionaries quest to stop the butchers nails from being implanted into the World Eaters.Not only do we get insight in the legions past, we also get several important moments in Angrons past. Angron’s better part had been forever left on distant Nuceria, although it is darkly ironic that the Primarch who had showed such touching sentiment and care towards his enslaved mortal fellows would become the one to eventually turn his gene-sons into berserk, blood-crazed beasts with no trace of humanity altogether. Unlike his brothers, the Twelfth Primarch is the only one who would not rise to rule over the world of his upbringing, and there was a very special reason for that. The rebel planet is home to a threat that you just don't see too often in these stories, and seeing the space Marines struggle against them creates one of the more memorable battle scenes. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.

As I came close to finishing the book, I realized that Angron is just a lot more interesting after he falls to Chaos.This is the first book from the Primarch series that I have read, since he fascinated me the most after his appearance in the first trilogy of Horus Heresy. It is actually the question of what lengths Angron’s unloved sons would go to (all for the sake of the Legion) in ether obediently fulfilling his plan for them or strongly denying it in favour of their noble, proud history. In a setting filled with malevolent gods turning people into sex slugs or rotting fly babies it's interesting to see that the horrors wrought on Angron were entirely human in nature.