Comments on: Recommendations: David Gemmell http://www.bookthing.co.uk/2010/02/recommendations-david-gemmell/ A blog of myths, romance, fantasy and thrills (and book reviews!) Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:26:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stuart http://www.bookthing.co.uk/2010/02/recommendations-david-gemmell/comment-page-1/#comment-1991 Stuart Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:34:44 +0000 http://www.bookthing.co.uk/?p=1154#comment-1991 I am not a student of David Gemmells work but I have read and enjoyed everything he has scribed and can say without a doubt that he is my favourite author. David had a gift for making the reader immediately understand and care for his characters. Better the tales immediately take off engaging slow readers like me refore they become jadded and put the book away. I have tried to read other fantasy authors but each failed to engage me one way or the other and were either a chore to read or moved on half finished. On Tony's recommendation above looked up the first of Barclay's Raven series on Amazon and read the comments. These were encouraging enough for be to order the first book "Dawnthief". The book is (not quite finished it yet but the night is young!) excellent. The style should be and is different from Davids work and yet it has that special something that coaxes the 12 year old in me out from the attic. Be warned; if you thought David had a habit of killing off your beloved characters you have not seen anything yet! If there is a must read list for fantasy fiction then Dawnthief would need to be on it along side Waylander and Legend. I am not a student of David Gemmells work but I have read and enjoyed everything he has scribed and can say without a doubt that he is my favourite author. David had a gift for making the reader immediately understand and care for his characters. Better the tales immediately take off engaging slow readers like me refore they become jadded and put the book away.

I have tried to read other fantasy authors but each failed to engage me one way or the other and were either a chore to read or moved on half finished.

On Tony’s recommendation above looked up the first of Barclay’s Raven series on Amazon and read the comments. These were encouraging enough for be to order the first book “Dawnthief”. The book is (not quite finished it yet but the night is young!) excellent. The style should be and is different from Davids work and yet it has that special something that coaxes the 12 year old in me out from the attic.

Be warned; if you thought David had a habit of killing off your beloved characters you have not seen anything yet!

If there is a must read list for fantasy fiction then Dawnthief would need to be on it along side Waylander and Legend.

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