The Path of Heaven: The Horus Heresy, Book 36

I love this book. Recommended to anyone who love Warhammer Universe. . . . . . . . . .

This story provided an exciting ride to go along with. The book was exhilarating leading to some dark secrets that imply alot of the Emperors plans for the human race and why he left the Crusade. It was a great read

This book is a nice sequel to Scars. White Scars legion runs amok behind the Warmaster’s lines.I liked the book. I recommend it to Horus Heresy fans.

This is easily my favorite White Scar book. What is left of them after their long and lonely fight with the traitor legions, and will they make it to Earth for the final battle? Well, we know that one, but it's still a great read.Torghun, my favorite, gets the end I think he deserves.Ilya is one of the strongest mortals in the series.Yesuegi and Arvida make an amazing pair.Really good characterization, and love any chance for Mortarion to take a prominent role.The risk of daemons is made clear as well. Just a great book.

You know the story and what is coming if you follow the lore of course, does not make reading it any less difficult. Great overall Heresey read and a MUST for any fan of the White Scars.

This is the 36th heresy book and it truly does live up to the line. Chris Wright is one of the most consistent writers in Black library, he fleshes out the characters with ease and presents interesting personalities. The Characters in this book are some of my favorites from the series, Eidolon is finally shown why he is Lord Commander and the White Scars show their style of warfare on a grander scale.I highly recommend this book for any heresy fan.

Great action-sc-fi in the Warhammer 40k universe. Hopefully all White Scars-centric stories will be written by the talented Mr. Wraight!

Read scars then this book. You will not be disappointed . I'm reading all full length novels in order and I must say I did not expect the white scars arc to be much fun. I love these crazy Chogorians now!

Another great Chris Wraight novel on the White Scars. This is the tale of how the White Scars make it to Terra and what trials they have to endure or overcome.Minor spoilers: the book starting with Traitor POVs was pretty unique.So the White Scars are in big trouble after 4 years of war against the Traitors.One of the most endearing things in the story is the Khan's growth as a character especially how he laments not having been closer to the Emperor as well as all the losses to his legion.

well written and well paced, it expands on the book Scars, filling in some of the back story of what the Emperor was really up to during the run up to the heresy. I highly recommend it

This is Chris Wraight’s second Horus Heresy book on the Fifth Legion of the White Scars. The first was called “Scars” and this one is in many respects its continuation as we find the Legion several years afterwards fighting against the odds a war of attrition against multiple “Traitor Legions” in an increasingly desperate effort to try to resist the tide and to reach Terra isolated by warp storms.The book contains a number of interesting but somewhat expected features, such as void battles and assaults (on a planet and on a space station in particular), and the Scars’ increasingly frantic search for a way out of the noose that is tightening around them. These are well presented although they have become rather conventional in what is now volume 36 of the Horus Heresy.What is more original, however, is the author’s ability to convey how the Long War inexorably changes the Legion Astartes and their Primarchs on both sides. You get a short glimpse of Warmaster Horus and much more elaborate scenes featuring the grim and bitter Mortarion who endures his inner daemons and struggles to keep his Death Guard Legion together and hold the Warp’s corruption at bay. You also get the Emperor’s Children under the command of Eidolon who, on the contrary, and with the exception of the elite swordsmen of the Palatine Blades, surrender themselves to daemons and to the warp and develop frightful deformities and powerful sonic weapons.Most of all, you get the White Scars themselves and their Primarch who, after years of a war of attrition that they cannot hope to win are being slowly worn down and destroyed, physically, but also and more importantly morally as they slowly lose hope. It is this loss of hope which is quite superbly rendered in this volume, a loss of hope that pervades the whole Legion, both those who stayed true to their vows and those who were tempted and exiled from it to die fighting alone. Also well described is this glimmer of renewed hope which emerges as the Khagan is shown a way that could possibly lead to Terra where both he and his Legion longs to fight alongside the Emperor.A final and major feature that I want to highlight in this review is the glimpses we also get of Jagathai Khan, one of the most enigmatic of the Primarchs and one of the ones that readers of the Horus Heresy had seen the least (the other one probably being Alpharion). The picture that Chris Wraight draws of Jagathai is that of a sensitive but lonely leader whose main regret is to not have understood and been close enough to his enigmatic father the Emperor but who remains fully, always and entirely loyal. While the description is essentially sympathetic, it is also somewhat of a moving and sad one for the wayward son’s only remaining hope is to join a father who never seems to have really shown that he loved him to fight and possibly die by his side.Five stars for a title that does bring the story forward, at last.

Better novel than Scars or at least covers more interesting events.On the other hand, the Emprah's Legion & Death Guard seemed almost thrown in there just to have an enemy. I feel as though the conflict between Jaghatai & Mortarion is underexploited somehow.

The second of Chris Wraight's White Scars HH novels sees the Scars trying to find their way to Terra, in order to defend the Emperor. However, they are frustrated by warp storms and by constant attrition through battles with the traitors. Jaghatai Khan finds himself torn between seeking out a navigator rumoured to have a way of travelling the so-called deep warp, and between a final last stand taking as many traitors with them as possible. Naturally they find the former and can avoid the latter. Bits of this novel are very good. There's some stonking action sequences, the Emperor's Children characters are fine villains, and the White Scars are believable and unique heroes. There's some nice dark exposition about the Emperor's plans for when the Crusade is finished, and some fantastic images of what the Emperor is up to right now. Like most of the Horus Heresy series, this book needed a good editor to strip out the bloat, and remove some of the 3am nonsense that afflicts all writers. This was better than average, though not as good as Scars.