Horus Rising
After thousands of years of expansion and conquest, the human Imperium is at its height. His dream for humanity accomplished, the Emperor hands over the reins of power to his Warmaster, Horus, and heads back to Terra. But is Horus strong enough to control his fellow commanders and continue the Emperor’s grand design, or will such incredible power corrupt him?
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April 2006 • softback, 416pp • ISBN 9781844162949
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Customer reviews
Excellent read with only a few minor setbacks.
Rated 4 out of 5 by burrek
I was enthralled and impressed by this first installment in the Horus Heresy saga. It reads part like a historical recounting and part a pulp novel. The definite highlight of the book is the rich character development. You can almost feel what it is to meet a primarch from a peons perspective, while at the same time you get the feeling that the primarchs are people as well, with their own doubts, fears, and dreams. As I mentioned before this is much like a history book in that it does not have a plot structured in a way one might expect from a novel. Big plus for realism. Highly Recommended
Book One in the Endless Saga
Rated 3 out of 5 by Paul
Warmaster Horus begins his freshman exploits and the beginning of the Sons of Horus. Book One in this largely mind-boggling series attempts to give us a substantial background but, with all the hugging and gentle touching going on in this novel between male dominated supermen one could almost point out veiled homoerotica. Regardless, Abnett starts us off with a mixture of drama/action as the story takes shape with one concept in particular: 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions'.
There was a time when Horus was good??
Rated 5 out of 5 by Max
I loved this book. It was the first one in the Horus Heresy series that I read, and has gotten me hooked on all of the other books.