The Dark Prince - David Gemmell

The Dark Prince is book two of a series based around the Ancient Greek General Parmenion although I think it is also part of a larger trilogy called the stones of power which has another five or six books in it. As I have already said this is part two. It is set in Ancient Greece around the famous general Parmenion. The first book describes his life growing up in the famous city of Sparta and ow he was an outcast because of his mixed blood: Spartan and Macedonian. It tells of how he liberates the city of Thebes from Spartan rule and becomes the Macedonian armies General under King Philip who he knew as a child in Thebes. The first book tells of how ...  Read the complete review

How can the sequel to a book be so different in Style? Those of you who have read my opinion on 'The Lion of Macedon', the prequel to 'The Dark Prince' will know that I was pleasantly surprised by the book and that I was really looking forward to reading this, the sequel. The trouble is that the two books are very different types of story indeed. 'The Dark Prince' starts exactly where 'Lion of Macedon' stopped. It follows the story of how Phillip of Macedon conquers Greece and then how his son, Alexander the great, conquers the mighty empire of Persia. As before, David Gemmell bases his stories on historic fact but weaves a ...  Read the complete review