Angron: The Red Angel (Warhammer 40,000)

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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.

You want the inside scoop on a Traitor Legion in the same vein as, say, the Night Lords books, here's your huckleberry.

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.

That’s why I’m reading this book, because in all honesty, Angron: The Red Angel is the sort of book I’d usually shy away from. So we learn quite a bit about the World eaters and Angron is left to his entry in the Primarchs serie. 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.Because it felt like the true point of this book was to make you understand how the nails feel and operate.

The problem is that, swept up as they are in Angron’s orbit, everyone else in the book feels very similar. I enjoyed the character writing, but the pacing and changes in perspective made it hard for me to really get into the characters.It's the most unreserved, honest critique of Angron in any text I've seen and it does not pull a single punch. We have characters who’ve been trying and failing to bring their Legion back together for millennia, and the book zeroes in on their perspective when this incredibly important figurehead re-enters the limelight. 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. He has written for Black Library, Marvel, Aconyte Books, Asmodee, Mantic Games, Cubicle 7, Creative Assembly, and Mongoose Publishing.