Primogenitor (1) (Fabius Bile) Paperback – December 12, 2017

While the "mainline" Warhammer 40K books can be rather hit or miss for me, Black Library seems to shine with its character-focused novels. I had heard good things about this book back when the hardcover shipped, but decided to wait it out until the paperback release. Definitely worth the money. Reynolds' depiction of Fabius easily solidifies the mad scientist as my favorite character in the 40K setting. At its heart, Primogenitor is a whacked out road trip across the Eye of Terror and is one hell of a fun ride thanks to both Fabius' fantastic characterization and the colorful cast he gets put up against. This is also easily the wittiest Black Library book I've read, with suprisingy snappy dialogue that really shows off the personalities at work. If you're a fan of Fabius, the Emperor's Children, or Chaos in general, I highly recommend this and I cannot wait for the paperback of Clonelord this summer.

I'm new to these "Warhammer" setting books, and picked this up based on the heady praise from a couple of friends who know about these stories. And I am so very glad I did.What a fantastic book. This has got it all, great prose, smart dialogue, compelling and excellently built characters and scene setting, an incredibly dark vibe coupled with humor and splattered in gallons of blood, and amazingly visceral fight scenes.I am sold on this setting if any of the books are even close to this level of brilliance.First book from the Black Library and first read by Joshua Reynolds, and it could not have been better.Definitely a must-read for fans of the genre and for fans of great action and spectacular writing.

I won't bore anyone with a book review, but I will give some brief thoughts:1) After years of reading about the heroic Empire of Man, I'm actually really digging the fallen legion perspective on things. So many other books portray Chaos Marines as pretty dark and... evil. I think this does a good job of showing how Chaos interacts with mankind when men aren't so fooled into thinking in a very black and white good vs evil mindset. Not sure Fabius Bile is the most interesting character here, and that was a nice twist. Bile's retinue are far better developed and interesting, overall, even if they aren't as uniquely interesting and powerful as Bile. But, hey, the Eye of Terror isn't all that scary when you are one of the Alpha predators, like Bile. I think it gets a little more interesting when you aren't at the top of the food chain and you are trying to swim with the big fish. Most of the other characters are some variation on that theme.2) I thought the writing was good. I'm not looking for absurdly difficult to read, and I want good pacing with action that is easy to imagine and follow along with. Reynolds nailed that for me.3) At the end I was excited as heck for the next two books. I believe I saw, somewhere, that this is part of a trilogy. Any book that makes me wish it wasn't over deserves a solid 4 star rating. It won't change my life, but I'll be back for more.

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. It was one of very few that I had a hard time putting down. I actually liked Fabius Bile--at least Reynolds portrayal of him, and found Bile sympathetic even. There is a lot of Fabius' and Emperor's Children back story referred to that I wasn't familiar with (something I'm going to work on). It didn't interfere with the story and there's plenty of information on both on the Internet for the curious.

This is a nice look at Fabius Bile and what makes him tick. His thoughts on Chaos are really interesting to me.Oleander is another interesting character. Enjoyed having his thinking revealed over time. Tzimiskes is my favorite though, I'd love more books with him.

Primogenitor is one of the best Chaos Space Marine novels I have read. Fabius and the supporting characters are well fleshed out and interesting. Josh Reynolds does a great job of describing both the battles and the locations in the book. This is a great start for the planned trilogy and I can't wait to read the sequel.

This isn't a typical 40k grimdark novel. Fabius Bile and many of the traitor marines surrounding him are selfish, conniving, and constantly look back on their fall from glory.This is the first 40k novel I've read that features the chaos marines, and they somehow feel more human, more relatable than many of the loyalist marine novels I've read.

This was just a well written book. Love the character development. No slow parts to speak of cover to cover

Ist gut

Livre très sympa qui donne des infos pour connaître et apprécier ( ou pas :D ) fabius bile .Ainsi que pas mal d'informations aussi sur la 4eme legion , ce qu'elle est devenu depuis sont éclatement suite à la naissance de la black legion d'abaddon ( lire la griffe d'horus pour savoir un peu plus sur ça )Je ne me suis pas ennuyé , le personnage m'intriguait depuis longtemps, plutôt content d'avoir enfin meilleur connaissance de ce dernier

Can hardly wait for book 3.

Never read any 40k books from a chaos or 'villain' point of view before. I usually find them a bit one dimensional to trying way too hard to be GRIMDARKKKK for the sake of it.But I really enjoyed the Fabius Bile series, it's refreshing to have a character who's aims you might not agree with, but make total sense and are logical. Although there's the usual grimdark stuff typical of Chaos, especially where Slannesh is concerned, it's all just matter of fact stuff in the background that the protagonist practically rolls his eyes at himself.Do yourself a favour and just buy all three books at once, you'll be straight on the second in the series after this.

finde die Geschichten um die abtrünnigen Orden sind immer die spannendsten - wenn die Hauptcharaktere nicht eindimensional geschrieben sind.Fabius ist ein Paradebeispiel wie man es ordentlich hinbekommt!Unbedingt lesen!