Quest for Lost Heroes - David Gemmell > Reviews

Advantages: Easy Read, Captivating Storyline, Good Characters, Great depiction of Emotions, Good Ending
Disadvantages: Gemmell doesn't write very descriptively, Fairly Simple Plot

...particular favourite of mine is Quest For Lost Heroes. Quest For Lost Heroes is the fourth book in the Drenai series, but you don't really need to have read the others to understand it (but it does make it a little more interesting.) The Drenai aren't the powerful race they once were, and the Nadir hordes have conquered their land. (We knew it was coming eventually.) Nadir slaves have their pick of the Drenai women, and a village is raided, ... Read review

Advantages: Another adtictive story in Gemmell's Drenai series
Disadvantages: The book could have been split in two

...Kiall sets off on a quest to rescue her. Along the early legs of his journey he picks up a few men to aid him on his quest. These few are heroes from the past, the only men to thwart Tenaka Khan and stop his Nadir army from taking the fort of Bel-Azar. Together with Kiall the four heroes of the past head off deep into Nadir lands on the trail of the raiders and to free the girl Kiall loves. The legends of the past, Chareos the blademaster, Beltzer ... Read review