Gemmell

David Gemmell:

Troy Trilogy:

The Lord Of The Silver Bow:

Opening up the novel and reading the first few pages was something really difficult for me. The pages weren’t very self explanatory and i found myself not knowing what was going on and was very tempted to put the book back down...DON'T! The beginning is intriguing and a novel that explains the entire novel in the opening chapter is not worth reading past the first chapter in my opinion.  Gemmell has made it so that we have to keep reading to find out what the first part of the book is about.

As the book opens up and I realised there were 4 small books in the novel, I really had to fight to convince myself that this was going to be worth reading! Fantasy, Love, Death, Revenge and Mythology all in one novel, how could someone fit that many themes into just one novel? By intertwining the themes into each other and by allowing the genre of the novel to play a small part in to novel, small but none the less important!

I am ashamed to admit that I had pushed off David Gemmell for such a long time, everything I love to read about is in this novel and as an opener to the trilogy; Gemmell produces a fantastic opener that really makes you want to pick up the next part as soon as you finish the first part! Well done to Gemmell for producing such awesome novels!

Shield of Thunder:

The seccond novel in the 3 part series! absolutely fantastic! the time changes that close down the boredom that could otherwise be found in this novel to keep the action and excitement going is simply incredible! More action, more drama, everything is still here, carrying on from where he left off in the first novel- Gemmell creates an even more thrilling 2nd part to this novel ending with a cliff hanger like ending to make us want to grab the remaining book and just keep reading!

Fall of Kings:

This third novel is an amazing finish to the series written by David Gemmell and Finished by Stella Gemmell! The fall of kings really talks about what the title is, the battle for troy and the fall of many warriors to defeat the on going threat from myken king Agemnon  to restore peace and order in the world and to start a new line of Kings.

Dont want to say any more that might spoil the book- read it and find out!

Moving along:

The Swords of Night and Day

An Earlier novel by David Gemmel consisting of his usual fantasy and mythology action/romance.

At the start of this novel, I felt that Gemmel had failed to capture his audience in any way; that is to say that I wanted to put the book down because I couldn’t understand the point of the novel or anything that had really happened and I felt that I knew what was coming later on and didn’t want to read on when the novel was so easy to predict, however I was wrong.

This Novel takes a while to get in to but like many other slow starting novels, it contains something absolutely fantastic that is impossible to take your eyes off of. By the end of the novel, you are wishing there was another one to carry on from because the end half of the novel is simply breathtaking and filled with everything you look for in a David Gemmel novel.

For all those obsessed with sword play and games such as Age of Empires and old fashioned mythology, this definitely is the novel for you. Films such as Troy and Gladiator only slightly put in to perspective the style of sword play used in that era and David Gemmel helps to explain in detail what’s missing from those films by creating characters that can handle multiple swords and are completely undefeated in battle.

So now we ask ourselves, if they are completely undefeated in battle, why should we bother to read about it because we know that the hero will win and everything will be ok? Or we ask ourselves, because the hero is un beatable, does that mean that he will die in the end of the novel? I answer these questions for us, Gemmel creates and un beatable hero and Villain so that it’s not a typical ending to a novel and now asks us the questions : if there are two un beatable warriors, who will win?

The ending of the novel makes up for the slow start of the novel and by far, when the characters develop, this is not a book to be put down however I do feel that this book is a sign of Gemmell’s work in progress towards novels such as Troy and Ravenhart that take the form of some of his ideas in this novel but expand and develop them in a way that Gemmel wasn’t able to do with the plot of this novel.

I encourage all of you readers out there to pick up this book and to persevere with it to find the adventure and satisfaction that you are searching for in this type of novel.