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. That being said, this could be more on the general theme and source material for the World Eaters, rather than a reflection on the writing.

Part of me does wonder if I might have enjoyed this book more if I was more familiar with the background of Angron. They live in a wholly different world than the rest of the Imperium and Guymer lays it all out in this book. David: With Angron, and characters like him, you don’t really look at them from the inside – from their perspective.It’s not so much about how perpetual anger affects Angron (because, quite frankly, he’s fine with it) but more about how other people are affected by Angron, both those who follow him, and those who oppose him. 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. Every character within this story (with the exception of one which I will speak of later) has a very interesting arc and I never wanted to skip one character’s progression in favor of another. For taste, the best scene in the book is a Heresy-era World Eater realising how Angron has been actively screwing over the Legion for literally millennia. In the darkness of Imperium Nihilus, across half a million worlds cut off from the dim light of Holy Terra, a beacon is lit.

He brought a weird and unruly saga to a satisfying climax, and I wanted to see what he could in the forty-first millennium.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.