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A review by kitvaria_sarene
Waylander by David Gemmell
4.0
Finally I managed to get around to reading my very first Gemmell! It will definitely not be my last one...
I really enjoyed the story - especially the characters. Waylander is a great character to follow - I had a thing for him from the moment when a priest asked him to save him from death, and Waylander answers "Why?" Just my kind of character! I liked the others too, and was glad to be able to spend so much time with them.
The plot was interesting, and for me had a good balance between a bit of politic, lots of action, quite some quests and adventures, a siege and being thrown into the army life.
I give only 4 stars because of A) the characters changing a bit too often - way to fast for my personal liking, some solutions being just a bit TOO easy and parts of it being quite predictable. Since it was out way before most of the other fantasy books, it isn't at fault for being predictable - most classics are in a way - as so many others have taken their inspirations from the older titles.
I did like just how dark it was for a classic - it felt a bit like the start of nowadays grimdark books to me - and I once again liked the balance Gemmell strikes between despair and hope, blood and beauty, fight and faith, grit and adventure.
My ebook copy had quite some little typos, I would not expect that from a professionally published ebook, but the prose was fluent and good enough to let me flow by tose and ignore them without getting annoyed.
If you haven't yet tried Gemmell - I definitely recommend it! One of the only classics besides LOTR that really could hook me completely!
I really enjoyed the story - especially the characters. Waylander is a great character to follow - I had a thing for him from the moment when a priest asked him to save him from death, and Waylander answers "Why?" Just my kind of character! I liked the others too, and was glad to be able to spend so much time with them.
The plot was interesting, and for me had a good balance between a bit of politic, lots of action, quite some quests and adventures, a siege and being thrown into the army life.
I give only 4 stars because of A) the characters changing a bit too often - way to fast for my personal liking, some solutions being just a bit TOO easy and parts of it being quite predictable. Since it was out way before most of the other fantasy books, it isn't at fault for being predictable - most classics are in a way - as so many others have taken their inspirations from the older titles.
I did like just how dark it was for a classic - it felt a bit like the start of nowadays grimdark books to me - and I once again liked the balance Gemmell strikes between despair and hope, blood and beauty, fight and faith, grit and adventure.
My ebook copy had quite some little typos, I would not expect that from a professionally published ebook, but the prose was fluent and good enough to let me flow by tose and ignore them without getting annoyed.
If you haven't yet tried Gemmell - I definitely recommend it! One of the only classics besides LOTR that really could hook me completely!