He doesn’t want that person to be him, because it has bad optics, to say the least. In case that has happened, it’s best to keep the Imperium alive the best way Robert knows how, and that’s to name someone as Regent of Imperium Secundus. As far as Rowboat Girlyman knows, Horus has already invaded Terra and killed the Emperor. There’s a giant warp Ruinstorm engulfing the system, and there’s no communication in or out. Last time, in Ultramar, Lorgar fucked some shit up. (And Robby Bobby is a momma’s boy! So sweet, all of it.) Careful What You Wish For… Oh yes, this was a two-for-one special just for me, and I loved every second of it. With The Unremembered Empire, we get to see these emotional cracks again with Roboute and, probably for the first time ever, with the Lion. And nearly get killed by another brother. And learn that one of his favorite brothers was killed.

It’s one thing for him to get angry at orks, but it’s quite another for his heart to be broken by a family member. Second is that we saw a crack in Guilliman’s polished veneer and got to witness real, raw emotions from him. One is that we get see what a BADASS my man Robby Bobby is.

Know No Fear was my favorite book in this series for a myriad of reasons. What’s important right now is that we got to see a crack in the Lion’s armor. No idea if things will be on a set path for the second half of the series, but that’s not what’s important right now. The Unremembered Empire is a bit of a reset for the plot mess the series has been up to this point. It’s jumped forward and backward in time, it’s introduced new characters in short stories that you weren’t sure were going to mean anything, and the series has scattered the Loyalists all over the galaxy. Well, I’m glad I read most of them.Īfter Legion, the series has been a bit all over the place. But there was a lot going into this story, and for that reason, I’m so glad I read the first 26 books before this one. There are some key pieces I remembered that she told me, such as Guilliman’s mom making an appearance (to which I expected her to be a Queen Mother, not an advisor), Konrad Kurze and the Lion showing up, and Robby Bobby deciding that Sanguinius should sit on the Secundus throne. Now that we’ve gotten THAT out of the way… I vaguely remember editing Jen’s article three years ago. I’m writing an irregular column about my experience reading all 54 books in order. Yes, I know that Jen already wrote a review of The Unremembered Empire in an Outside the Book Club review, but this is MY story now.

Unremembered book series