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Summary: Captivating and Great Story telling...
Review: Once more David Gemmell catches my imagination... but Winter Warriors is a cut above other Drenai Sagas. I liked Legend a lot... but this book goes a step further ! Gemmell is a master and this book brings his world back to life... with new myths and new legends in the making.
I can't recommend this book enough. Hard to stop reading.
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Summary: winter warrior
Review: "Winter Warriors" is another breathtaking book by David Gemmell. It is set in Drenai and focuses on Nogusta the black swordmaster. The swordmaster and his friends Kebra and bison have been discarded along with Banelion the white wolf and the veterans of Skanda's army. Then Anharat the demon lord takes over and the three old warriors must defend the queen's unborn son to save the world otherwise the windborn would come back with a vengeance. I highly recommend this book to everyone. Readers who enjoy Science fiction and fantasy books will especially like this book. It's masterfully written and the plot fantastic.
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Summary: winter warrior
Review: "Winter Warriors" is another breathtaking book by David Gemmell. It is set in Drenai and focuses on Nogusta the black swordmaster. The swordmaster and his friends Kebra and bison have been discarded along with Banelion the white wolf and the veterans of Skanda's army. Then Anharat the demon lord takes over and the three old warriors must defend the queen's unborn son to save the world otherwise the windborn would come back with a vengeance. I highly recommend this book to everyone. Readers who enjoy Science fiction and fantasy books will especially like this book. It's masterfully written and the plot fantastic.
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Summary: Unique in the genre
Review: Along with King Beyond the Gate, this book is assuredly one of Gemmels best. The gritty realism of human interaction is the main strengh of Gemmels work and this book is a perfect example of how the author manages to breathe life into his characters. The protagonists are not paragons, although they are skilled warriors (they had to be to live this long) they are have failings, doubts, and even childhood trauma. What is amazing in this novel is how the characters change completely by the events that occur. You will end up even admiring the enemies. The beauty and tragedy of Gemmels work is there is rarely good or evil characters...just people caught up in events they cannot control. However, Gemmel is such a skilled writer he could make a character cleaning a cooking pot interesting! This book is a must read.
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Summary: Long live Bison
Review: Anothe superb book by gemmell, just finished reading it today, If you like fantasy you'll like anything by Gemmell
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Summary: A Jewel in Gemmell¿s career
Review: Arguably the best of a series of books written by Gemmell in his mature phase of his career commencing in 1996 with the Legend of DeathWalker and including Dark Moon and Echoes the Great Song. Thoughtful and deeper than most of Gemmell's best work, he captures the sense of heroes growing old; their once excellent talents slowing and fading. Who thinks normally about older characters in fantasy? We have old wizards and the like, but warriors? What happens to them when they are ready for the scrap heap? Gemmell mixes the psychology of this with his most familiar and famous realm: Drenai to paint the picture of a threat matched against the doubts and needs of unwanted heroes. The plot would have been mediocre with normal young characters, but here the dimension of age makes a Jewel in Gemmell's career. Read this and Dark Moon together for top British fantasy.
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Summary: An eloquently written masterpiece,Gemmell is a true master.
Review: David Gemmell has ,with this piece,established himself amongst the greats of Sci-Fi literature such as Anne McCaffery,J.R.R Tolkien and Mickey Zucker Reichert.The story flows brilliantly with the characters becoming frighteningly lifelike as the story progresses.The demonic Krayakin are a personal favourite of mine as are the mysterious Nogusta and the obscene old man Bison.With legendary heroics,sinister and evil acts and acts of phenomenal selflessness,Gemmell's charaters distinguish themselves in every respect.David Gemmell is a true master.
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Summary: Reminiscent of a previous title I reviewed....
Review: Fortunatly, of all of the people who have read my reviews so far on Gemmell Books (the only ones I wrote reviews on), all has found them to be helpful (check my review on Quest For Lost Heroes by a Reader From New York). So I shall have the peace of mind to go and review this recent title in the Drenai series... this book is reminiscent of a certain older title that I have reviewed quite a while ago, in that the story focuses on a small group of middle-aged men who sets out on one last quest to right a wrong, unwillingly or unknowingly at first, and then gradually becomes aware that it almost their destiny to complete the quest. But Gemmell books are never this simple... they are action-packed with very realistic battle scenes and even more realistic human emotions, there is no set right or wrong in Gemmell's books, and there is rarely true chivalry or nobility in the charachters, often times if a hero in Gemmell's books does a seemingly good deed, it is often for his or her own gain, though very rarely there are unselfish charachters. In Gemmell's books, the charm is that Gemmell describes all the main charachters and minor charachters in such detail that the reader feels that they know the charachters very well. The minor-charachters or "sidekicks" are made known so well to the reader that they seemingly are as important as the "main charachters". Even the villians are described so that we feel perhaps they are the main charachters in the stories. Indeed it is often hard to tell just who is the main charachters in Gemmell's novels, the exceptions being Waylander in the Drenai Saga Series, and the lone warrior with two guns in the Stones of Power series. And not to be overlooked, Royo's excellent cover arts for most of Gemmell's books have undoubtedly added to the appeal of the books, they are pure masterpieces of excellent artwork. Overall, Winter Warriors is another outstanding title by Gemmell, in fact it is the great stuff that we almost happen to expect from Gemmell, that is realistic tale of human emotions, tragedies, and triump. The opening chapter in this book is much like the others...excellent and very detailed that puts the reader into the book. There are just so many twists and turns in Gemmell's books that the reader can rarely predict what happens next to the plot, and that is only of the reader is exceedingly lucky and gifted. I certainly look toward the next books written by Gemmell, not to mention the next cover art by Royo.
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Summary: A brilliant piece of heroic fantasy
Review: Gemmell has a gift - he writes stunningly good fantasy which is gritty and realistic. There is no airy-farie whiff about his work, and no long, over-complicated backstory either (such as in the Wheel of Time). Gemmell keeps the story going at a blinding pace. The ancient Drenai empire, once besiged from all sides, has been saved by the armies of its warrior king, and now he has marched onward to glory. However, his newly-taken empire is full of strife and tretchery ... and dark sorcery. A Demon King is attempting to return his people to the world, and destroy humanity. To do so, he only has to kill the unborn child of the warrior-king. That child's only defence is three old men, discarded by their lord: Nogusta the Swordsmen, Kebra the Bowman, and the slow but sure Bison. In their hands rests the fate of the world. This is a tale of sheer brilliance. Each of the characters is clearly defined and explored throughout the book, and we care about all of them, even the Demon Lord. It's a great story, and Gemmell is a great writer. Well worth and look for any fantasy reader.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I discovered David Gemmel about a month ago since then I have bought every book I can find. Excellent stories and detail.
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