Ferrus Manus: The Gorgon of Medusa: Primarchs: The Horus Heresy, Book 7

Kept me thoroughly engaged from beginning to end. David Guymer succeeds in making me care about Ferrus Manus with both insight into his way of thinking and exciting action sequences where Ferrus Manus goes beast mode. Side characters are well written especially the famed Gabriel Santar and a Emperors Children space marine named Akurduana, a swordsman of great skill. This book impressed me and I certainly recommend it.

Books itself arrived with a dinged corner, and an impossibly sticky sticker to remove from cover, but it worked out.

Well written and show's ferrus manus true self at the end despite all the envy he has for his brothers.

The plot of this book is referenced in more than one Horus Heresy books, so if you're trying to read the books chronologically, this one is worthy of a read. However, there is nothing terribly important that happens in terms of character development and dialogue so it will feel like a slog. You're not going to get any important insight as to how Ferrus Manus or his legion operate. They are stubborn, that's the gist of it.

The writing was jumbled at times but there were interesting insights as far as the great crusade, the iron hands, emperor’s children, etc.

Good book

The book gave insight into the relationship between Ferrus and the Phoenician and the true level of the trafedy that was to follow. It would have been nice to give a little more depth into the legion and lay some groundwork as to why they are the way they are. Ferrus comes off as cold and demanding but there is little to explain why he is the way he is, or what makes the Iron Hands,

Only primarch book I've enjoyed so far. David Guymer should be writing all the Iron Hands cannon, he expanded on the sour aspect offered by most other aspects. He went deep into Manus' psyche, giving him a place among his brothers, or in fact, above. The Gorgon is uncompromising in his pursuits. Check this book out, you won't be disappointed (not an origin story); I say this author is up there with the story telling of Sandy Mitchell who penned the Caiphas Cain series.

Worst primarch book ever. Ferrus rarely appears, the focus of the book is on one character from the Emperor's children, the story is drawn out. Run away from this book. After reading dozens of WH40K books, this was the first one that I proudly abandoned

This is a great read, you don't often get to read about the Gorgon and his legion. I especially love how it takes place during the great crusade. Not a trace of heresy! I've always been looking for books that take place during the great crusade as sometimes you need a little break from heresy and betrayal. Pick this book up and the other primarchs books as they all mostly take place during the crusade. Great read.

This is the Primarchs’ Series book devoted to Ferrus Manus, also known as the Gorgon, the Primarch of the Iron Hands that have recently been the focus of a collection of short stories in “Shattered Legions” (in the Horus Heresy collection). There are at least a couple of interesting features that make this title worth reading.The first is the characterisation of Ferrus Manus. He is temperamental, barely in control of his emotions and therefore much more human than it seems despite his eagerness to seek the perfection of the machine. He also desperately needs to prove himself to both his brothers and his father, like a number of his other brothers afflicted with a similar flaw (Perturabo and Fulgrim in particular). The only one of his brothers that he genuinely love happens to be the outstandingly handsome and brilliant Fulgrim who is also a perfectionist, but much more subtle and cynical that the somewhat over trustful, blunt and brutal Primarch of the Iron Hands.The second interesting feature is that the relationship between the two Primarchs clearly shows how Fulgrim will be able to manipulate and betray his rash brother and bring him exactly where he wants him – to Isstvan V where he and his Legion can be trapped and broken alongside two other loyalist Primarchs and their own Legions.A third feature is that for all his bluntness and brutality, Ferrus Manus is a warrior, a fighter, a warlord, and one who leads from the front and by example. It is this that makes him who he is and it is a part of him and of his charisma and influence of his Legion. His attempts to imitate his brothers by adopting more restraint and reason in his tactics and strategy in order to preserve the industrial value of the overpopulated human Empire of Gardinaal and its rather horrible system of castes are well-described but bound to fail. So he will revert to his default mode and be true to pattern, lashing out against the enemy with an all-out assault that is intended to crush and conquer, not integrate and assimilate.I did however have a couple of misgivings. The first one is perhaps a bit unfair. Although the Iron Hands contain many Space Marines originating from Terra, and the book does contain multiple allusions to the Wars of Unification when the Emperor was only one warlord among others, I would have liked to learn more about these through the memories of some of the Iron Han or Emperor’s Children veterans. The second misgiving is however more justified. I wanted more about the reunion between the Emperor and Ferrus Manus. All I got was a quick mention that they fought when they meet, and an implication that the son lost when facing his father. How they meet and why they fought remains entirely unexplained.Four strong stars nevertheless.

Good read, found it to be one of the more interesting books out of the collection so far.

Its the space wolves, so expect common sense to go out the window, that said it does contain some nonsense about belisarius crawl but this can be forgiven, just about.