The Last Guardian - David Gemmell

Waylander - David Gemmell

Ive been reading Gemmel for a number of years now and this is one of the books i always re-read with relish. Gemmels not hard to read but always comes up with stories and ideas that seem fundamental to human life and spirituality. These questions we ask ourselves everyday, things such as the nature of evil, what turns a man from peaceful ways and go out and commit murder, could he ever redeem himself in his fellow mans and most importantly his own eyes. The story starts out with a man being tortured, this man is a type of priest, who accidentaly gets rescued by a dark stranger looking for his horse, enter Waylander. This turns out to be our two main ...

The King Beyond The Gate - David Gemmell

as well as Black man, out for revenge for the senseless slaughter of his people, and you have the beginnings of an army. Heroes in the making. If David Gemmell excels at anything, it is at writing people who happen to be heroes. In this book he does not produce just one but several convincing heroes. More often than not, the success of a story hinges on the Author s capability of writing realistic characters. When an author does it well then their work is a delight to read, Roald Dahl, Terry Pratchett, William Shakespeare and Helen Fielding (With Bridget Jones) all achieve this and David Gemmell is up there with the best character writers of all time. I wish I knew ...

The King Beyond The Gate - David Gemmell

Having only recently been introduced to Gemmell as an author I decided to follow up reading Legend with the second novel in the Drenai series, The King Beyond The Gate. It was perhaps a subconscious attempt to see if I really had taken to Gemmell's work and Sci Fi fiction in general or whether it was simply just that one book. I had a feeling that I had finally found my way into the fantasy genre and having finished the book in just over a weak it would seem that it was the start of a more permanent habit. It's been 100 years since the events of the first book at Dros Delnoch. New leaderships have come and gone but the legend of that day lives on in the memory of the Drenai ...