Rating: 
Summary: Not the standard Gemmell fare
Review: This is not your normal Gemmell novel. 3 stars are in comparison to his other work...4 stars for comparison with other novels. Do NOT get me wrong. It has many great things to offer but I found it subpar in comparison to the Drenai and Rigante Series. A little more slow moving, but definately different from his usual novels. If you read RA Salvatore this is similar to the Demon series in comparison to the regular Icewind Dale series (still one of my favorites). Look for more political intrigue and less hack'm up and slash em action.
Rating:
Summary: Not the standard Gemmell fare
Review: This is not your normal Gemmell novel. 3 stars are in comparison to his other work...4 stars for comparison with other novels. Do NOT get me wrong. It has many great things to offer but I found it subpar in comparison to the Drenai and Rigante Series. A little more slow moving, but definately different from his usual novels. If you read RA Salvatore this is similar to the Demon series in comparison to the regular Icewind Dale series (still one of my favorites). Look for more political intrigue and less hack'm up and slash em action.
Rating:
Summary: good , but nowhere near as fantastic as his other books
Review: This was a good story , but not up to his standard! I mean, in the end i could have cared less about what happened to the characters! My basic quibble is that it was too short. He didn't develop his charaters enough: they just sat on the sidelines and seemed almost lifeless. Sofartia for example, she began as an interesting character then poof! Nothing. Druss the Ledgend made me cry , but this book left me feeling that I'd just wasted 24 hours of my life.
Rating: 
Summary: Ought to keep you riveted... for three days at most!
Review: True, true, Gemmell cannot bring himself to write anything above 400 words and when he does, you kind of wish he hadn't. But what he can do with those 400 words in Echoes of the Great Song is quite spectacular. To begin with, Gemmell did for me what numerous fantasy writers, including Tolkien himself, had not: he manages to depict the end of an age and the coming of a new one -from the point of view of a doomed race trying to come to terms with what they know to be their future. That alone commands respect. However, Gemmell also offers, albeit in the form of whimsical intro-text, a wonderful -if not strictly scientifically correct- insight into the creation of myth and legend, as well as the natural order of things which must not be broken if a culture is to survive. Emotional involvement is generally intense and occasionally spikes to incredible heights, while the compact narration keeps it from becoming, well, gooey and sappy and cheap. The storyline in itself is immensely satisfying, unless you are the kind of reader that wants the plot to unfold the way you thought it would... Bittersweet endings with the good guys victorious and yet all but vanquished do tend to work for me. I have read another three Gemmell novels, Dark Moon, Sword in the Storm and Morningstar, and my comments are two: 1. Gemmell's entire universe is very consistently built on the same concepts of magic etc., a good thing if you ask me, 2. This is by far the best book if his that I have read to this day. On the down side, I had finished the book after three days. Too few pages and too much by way of content conspire to make this a blitz-read, and some of you msay find it a trifle disappointing. I did.
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