Fantasy Books > S Fantasy Books > David Gemmell

Advantages: beautifully written,engaging,realistic characters
Disadvantages: slightly slow paced

...of a warrior with a sword and shield and a ghostly bear standing by a large knarled tree. Below the picture is the name of the book in plain white bold print and the background colour to all this is a mix of orange, red and black. David Gemmell is one of my all time favourite Authors. He writes what is classed as Heroic fantasy. Basically all his stories involve war, fighting and battles set in fantasy world where high tech is chain mail and a running ...
...always plenty of love, sex, heroes and villains. Any book by David Gemmell is the perfect way to escape in to another world for a few hours. The particular book I am reviewing is called “Sword in the storm” and is book one of the four booked Rigante Series. With David Gemmell I find you do not have to read the series in order because each story stands alone but book one is always a good place to start. Connavar’s Father was killed when he was tiny. ... Read review

Advantages: Fast paced and eloquent story, poignant characters
Disadvantages: Couldn't sleep until I read it all... and walked around with a haze the next day.

Gemmell is one of the best, if not the best, in heroic fantasy. He excels brilliantly in the fantasy field not only because of his articulate writings and poignant characters, but that he is not afraid of letting them face the final consequences for their actions. Ever felt the frustration that the characters, main or minor, seem to be immortal in some novels? She or he never seems to have to pay for the stupidity and mistakes committed. But not ...
...the Source to forgive them and let them live for another page or so (all of his characters have the talent in 'accidentally' finding trouble, constantly, without the story to be the least 'too coincidental') because, dear Source, they are only human, and you love them so! Enough praises, I can go on and on and never run out of good things to say. Sword of Night and Day is the Book 2 of The Damned and continues to follows the story of Skilgannon. ... Read review

Advantages: Great book
Disadvantages: Slightly addictive

...the final book in the Harry Potter series and i must say it was definately worth the wait. It had me hooked from the very first page right through to the very last and I have reread it many times since. I would recommend it to anyone to read and I urge you to at least give it a try, I can almost guarantee that you will enjoy it.The series has many fans and I'm sure they would all say the same thing. ... Read review

Advantages: Greek history with a touch of fantasy - Brilliant!!
Disadvantages: Not a single one

to put it simply, exceptional! I have read, re-read and read again many, many of D. Gemmell's books. All of them have been superb, but this is definateley in the top 5. The thing that really stands out for me is how well the Author has blended history with fanatsy and brought to like quite possibly the greatest era of greek history. The story is formed around the life of Parmeneon, the half-spartan half-macedonian general of King Philip of Macedon, ...
...time. Giving away too much of the story would certainly spoil the book for some, so all I will say is, if you are interested in greek history, buy this book. If you like Heroic Fantasy novels, buy this book, and if you are a Gemmell fan (and somehow has not read this book) buy it, read it, then re-read it. ... Read review

Advantages: Good strong characters
Disadvantages: Slow to start

I read this book on holiday and i can safely say it is one fantstic fantasy book this book was slightly slow and hard to follow at the beggining but when you get further on you find yourself reading this book until 11o'clock at night, then you come out of david eddings' fantasy world and realise that for the last eight hours you have been reading a brilliant bookWhen i came out of this trance i thought, time well spent!. fantastic book to start the ... Read review