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  • By: Chris Forrester
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  • Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
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Wrath of the Lost

By: Chris Forrester
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Summary

A Flesh Tearers Novel

Having secured Baal, the Flesh Tearers receive timely reinforcements from the Indomitus Crusade. In that moment of hope, however, they realise they've not heard from their now isolated homeworld of Cretacia in far too long...

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The Flesh Tearers are Sanguinius' wrath writ in flesh and blood. Spared extinction thanks to reinforcements from the Indomitus Crusade, they are the vanguard of the Angelic Host, securing Baal and its neighbouring worlds for the Great Angels and the Imperium. Yet in fulfilling their oath to the Lord of the Blood, they have isolated themselves from their homeworld, Cretacia – and there has been no word from the garrison left to hold it.

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Ordered by Gabriel Seth to secure Cretacia, Chaplain Dumah and Apothecary Barachial set course for the Flesh Tearers' homeworld. But when they finally lay eyes on it once more, will they find a garrison standing firm, or a desolate wasteland scoured by their enemies? The Space Marines must walk in the footsteps of their chapter's mythic founder, and along the way they will learn what it means to embrace the Wrath of the Lost – or die trying.

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Bad-tempered morons fight everyone

Let me state upfront: I have always had a soft spot for the Fleshtearers. In the Devastation of Baal and other Blood Angels-centred tales, Fleshtearers Chaptermaster Gabriel Seth is a violent, anarchic counterpoint to the cerebral and terribly decent angels, a bit like that weird uncle who shows up drunk at family gatherings and wrecks the place.

Importantly, Seth was always depicted as a man who is the master of his rage: he channels and focuses it before turning it to bear on the Emperor's enemies. The Fleshtearers are borderline insane, but there's a method to their madness. Or there always was, until Wrath Of The Lost.

The Fleshtearers in this story are so far beyond reason, they start to make the World Eaters look vaguely rational by comparison. The suggestion that they could credibly pose a military threat to anyone feels increasingly laughable as this tale goes on. This isn't about the bubble of silliness that surrounds all things w40k — I can live with that, it IS a darkly absurd universe, after all. But every fictional 'verse must have some kind of internal logic to it. And there is none here.

The FTs in this tale are depicted as demented psychopaths who are incapable of interacting with anyone without losing it. Every scene features a Fleshtearer getting irate and wishing to kill the other characters. If that's another space marine, they argue (following orders or respecting the chain of command clearly isn't a thing). If it's one of their mortal thralls, they kill them. Every time. Mortal interrupts you? Kill them. Mortal tells you bad news? Kill them. Mortal points out some important truths that you need to hear because you are in the wrong? Kill them! Mortal just happens to be standing close by when you've gone bonkers and think you're Sanguinius? Kill them!

This quickly goes beyond any notion of grimdark and plunges headlong into the realm of the ludicrous. After all, how could a supposedly elite military outfit function when the staff that all fighting forces rely on to supply them in the field, repair stuff, and get them from A to B are constantly being slaughtered like cattle by their own soldiers?

It's not only ridiculous, it also gets increasingly reprehensible. The slaughter of menials by the FTs seems to happen in a totally consequence-free environment. After each murder spree is over, nobody mentions it again, not even in passing. It doesn't feel convincing. Even the one mortal who seems to have a decent rapport with her master talks back once too often and gets offed. Afterwards, the space marine responsible doesn't even pause for a moment's reflection or regret. These are supposed to be the Emperor's angels. We know the Fleshtearers aren't the Ultramarines, but the way they are depicted here, they treat baseline humans as nothing more than cattle. Thralls be guaranteed better treatment on a Night Lords vessel. That's how bizarre the levels of abuse get.

So self-reflection and becoming a better person are clearly not the Fleshtearer way — redemption arcs are for cowards! But that's just the beginning: Wrath of The Lost is littered with details that makes no sense in terms of the story or the lore. Take their petulant inability to follow basic orders, and flat refusal of any tactic that isn't charging directly into melee combat. The fact that the main characters are Primaris marines who've spent decades as pseudo-Ultramarines in the Indomitus Crusade, yet they act like a bunch of savages with the impulse control of toddlers. None of it makes any sense, and stuff like that annoys me.

All the main characters in this are reprehensible and without any redeeming virtues, yet we are expected to care about their mission to reclaim their fortress monastery and their lost relics. I couldn't have cared less, by halfway, I was rooting for the thralls to rise up and murder them all.

Even monsters must have some redeeming virtues so we can find them likeable in small ways. There's none of that craft in the writing here. I geniunely struggle to understand what the point of Wrath of The Lost is. I feel even Fleshtearers fans who might otherwise consume this uncritically will be disappointed with the depiction of their chapter here. It feels like a waste of everyone's time — including me as the listener, author Chris Forrestor's and poor blameless narrator, Richard Reed. I don't know why this book exists.

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Angry marines are angry!

Performance is fantastic. The story however was not for me. All the marines are angry or super angry and it doesn’t work well as a story driver.

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A vile chapter

The flesh tearers come across as bad as any chaos company. They clearly care not for mankind. Sanguinius weeps.

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The serfs nightmare

This might have been an OK story if it wasn't for the endless killing. These guys are worse then the world eaters ,without the excuse. Ex comunicatos this annoying chapter of space marines.

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Primaris learn how to Flesh Tearer

I sat and read through a load of the reviews before nervously using my monthly credit.
Honestly, I loved the book, and I find that the bulk of the reviews aren't appreciating the situation of the story.
Primaris marines going from unnumbered sons, to become flesh tearers, acting in a way they believe FT to be, before coming to learn what it truelly means to be the second sons of Sanguinius.
Yes, there is a lot of anger, borderline petulance, and distain for the mortals around them, but not to the scale described in many of the reviews.
100% worth a listen!

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ITGDoTFF, there is only MEH

Some good moments, and for the first half of the book it truely looks at how desperate the Flesh Tearers can get in terms of their survival (despite a rather stupid 'logistical' decision made by Dante/ Seth at the start of the novel that sets them up for failure). It sets itself up for some serious introspection for a Chapter reknowned for control issues who are struggling to do better, especially as it's a company of Primaris of all things. By the end, it turns into a caricature of angry marines being stupidly angry where, as someone else said, i was left hoping for the Flesh Tearers to fail.

When your protagonists have absolutely no redeeming characteristics whatsoever (or even base likeability ala 1st Claw from the Night lords novels), it turns into a grind.

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Great story of the Flesh Tearers!

I like how it show’s different sides to the flesh tearers rather than just mindless brutes like world eaters. Gives good insight into the special role of a chaplain within a chapter of the blood.

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A bad portrayal of the Flesh Tearers

A one dimensional boring look on the Flesh Tearers making them more like chaos then imperial. Everyone is just being angry and doing stupid things like killing all their human helpers.

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Angry Marines: The Novel.

The flesh Tearers are always portrayed as barely holding on to the humanity, and this book puts that across, but I feel it went over the top with it. Whilst they are known to be angry and one of the most violent chapters, they are still sons of the Great Angel and should have more about them than just “me angry, me no like what you say, me want to crush you, me thirsty, you look tasty”.

Maybe with the being Primaris could be an excuse as they do not have the grounding a first born raised on cretatia would, surrounded by the chapters home world and history.

Hopefully there is a follow up so we can see if being on the home world does indeed ground and stabilise these angry boys.

Narration is good, it’s not Toby Longworth good, but it’s still good.

Pacing of the book is slow.

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dissapointed to be dissapointed :(

I am a big Flesh Tearers fan so was naturally very excited to listen to this book however I was hugely disappointed sadly, It took me a while to get through this one, I struggled to stick with the narrator if I am honest, the voice acting is brilliant but I struggled to distinguish some characters at times, the narration felt a little 'school teacher' also, so I often found my mind drifting which meant I had to re-listen to chapters.

Story itself was slow to get going and I think a lot of it I missed because as mentioned I struggled to stick with the narrator on this one but forced myself to finish it out of love for the chapter.

If you aren't a fan of flesh tearers I wouldn't recommend this to you, if you are I would just advise that you prepare yourself for a hard listen but try to take joy into the insights of the chapter and its home planet when they come up.

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