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Summary: great book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is one of the best books i've ever read. the entire series is good i just hope he makes more.
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Summary: At last - a believable fantasy author!!!
Review: I bought this book when it was first published in paperback and have now read it so many times that my copy is falling apart!For the first time I've found a fantasy author who actually goes to the trouble of building believible characters. His heroes (and heroines) are flawed people living in a flawed world, trying to live by a code of honour even when it is obvious that the world in general does not share this belief. The main characters: Druss, Rek, Orrin et al are all believible and made more so by the fact that it is clear from the narrative that they struggle as much with their own fears and consciences as with their physical enemies, the Nadir. In an almost unheard of departure from traditional fantasy stories, the author has dispensed with having an 'evil' adversary: it is clear that Ulric wants to bring down the Drenai not out of any evilness on his part, but as the only way to ensure the rise of his own people. His forces take on the mantle of evil simply because they oppose the heroes of the novel. As for the storyline itself, all I can say is Superb! The waning Drenai Empire is faced by the hordes of Ulric Kahn, founder of a vast barbarian empire, at the legendary fortress of Dros Delnoch. The vastly outnumbered defenders must hold the fortress long enough to give the Drenai nation time to build an army capable of holding Ulric's forces at bay. Aided by a group of mystic warrior-priests and the hero Drus an unknown Drenai leader must defend the fortress to the last. David Gemmell has excelled in this story of ancient siege warfare and, without a dragon or elf in sight, produced what is probably the greatest fantasy in the last twenty years.
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Summary: what the hell.
Review: this book was probably the best thing i have ever read.it was given to me by my mother and scince i read rthe first page i could not stop. druss is truly majestic and although i have read his other storys i thirst for more druss. please keep up the good work mr. gemmell.
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Summary: Epic
Review: A marvelous work. It evokes the same feelings as reading about the real-life battle at Camerone (French Foreign Legion supporting Maximilian's attempt to become Emperor of Mexico). This is the kind of book that makes impressionable lads want to run off and become heroes ;) The few flaws it does have are far outweighed by the glorious battles and attention to character development. I highly recommend this, and have purchased the remainder of the Drenai books sight unseen. If they are even half as good, they will be better than most of the books I have read.
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Summary: It's a great mix of fantasy.
Review: I think that it's a great book for all ages of readers. It has violance, adventure, and semi romance all mixed up giving it a wonderfully intresting, gripping story theme.
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Summary: Great author with one fault.
Review: I know, I know, I will be going against the grain by giving him four stars and not five. I would go with four and a half but I would still be leaning towards a four. Anyway the only real flaw is there is no map in any of his books that I have seen. That may seem trivial to a lot of readers but it really irks me when a map is not included in the fantasy books that I read. To all you fantasy writers, or up and coming fantasy writers, include maps!! These worlds are totally unknown to the reader. It helps when there is a map in front of you that allows you to follow the action. Or maybe it's just me and I'm quibbling over an unimportant part of a novel. Well, unimportant to the writer anyhow.
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Summary: Really a well thought out book.
Review: This book was excellent. I really liked the way Gemmell is able to put so much description into a book without losing the storyline. I really lied this.
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Summary: Undiluted Brilliance.
Review: This was the first book of David Gemmell's that I read. Less that two months later I had devoured everything he had written and was feverishly waiting for him to publish something new. Legend is inspirational, touching, shocking and undeniably brilliant. Here is an author that delivers a tale that will leave you shaken, moved and hungry for more.
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Summary: A fascinating spellbinding fantasy-story
Review: It's been the first David Gemell novel I read, but surely not the last. It's a great story about men, women, love and war, age and death. I haven't been enchanted that much since the Shannara books by Terry Brooks. The only negative point in my opinion is the end of the story. Why didn't he dare to make an unhappy-end. There was such a dramatic development and suddenly it seems as if the author is frightened by his own courage.
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Summary: Tense, terse, exciting writing. Grips from start to finish.
Review: This is the archetypal roller-coaster of a novel. From page one Gemmell grabs you by the lapels and forces you to care about the characters and the plot. He has an amazing ability to create cameo roles throughout the novel so that the main protagonists' actions are embroidered and three-dimensional rather than taking place in splendid isolation. David Gemmell's style is crisp; his sentence structure short and journalistic. This is not a book to start when you haven't much time or you will find yourself reading it in the most bizarre places. The first of the Drenai novels, it is a classic of the genre and a fabulous introduction to Gemmell's now sizeable collection. In every way a complete joy!
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