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Morningstar - David Gemmell

Description: ISBN 1857237854 / Author: David Gemmell / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / As the Angostin battle hordes surge over the Southern Borders of the ... more

Morningstar - David Gemmell ... Highlands, the bandit, Jarek Mace, and his friend, the magicker and bard Owen Odell find themselves in a country in desperate need of heroes.

Newest Review: ... is one of Gemmell's earliest works, and is written in the first person, from the view of Owen Odell, the Bard. I know many ... more

... people look down on the first person point of view, but it is used amazingly well in this book to bring the reader into the story and Owen is the perfect storyteller, you enjoy seeing the events unfold before his eyes, and hearing his own personal philosophy between times. This is not, on the surface, an unusual story, especially not for Gemmell. An unlikely hero, a band of misfits and battles, guts and gore. It never ceases to amaze me how this author manages to tell essentially the same story time and time again bu...more

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Morningstar - David Gemmell: Let the Morningstar Light up your Life! (900 words)
by - written on 27/10/05 (Very useful, 105 readings)
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Owen Odell is a travelling bard, he is a brave man, but not a skilled one, so when he steps in to stop several ruffians from raping a young girl, it is fate or fortune that Jarek Mace jumps in to kill the attackers and save Owens life. Thus starts the legend of Morningstar, the peoples hero. A morningstar is an evil, ball shaped weapon on a chain. The ball has lots of nasty spikes sticking out of it, and if you get cracked round the head with one of'em, you're off to meet your maker quick sharp! Also it is the last star in the sky before dawn, the one that sees off the dark of night and beckons on the daylight. After an impressive rescue of a ... Read the complete review