The whole book is really about relationships and the sadness of an old man who has lost his wife and the subsequent sadness of the grandson when he loses his grandfather.

If the legendary Druss was an atomic bomb who decimated all at ground zero in Legend, then the protagonists in TKBtGate are shockwaves rippling from the core. Yo me lo leído rápidamente porque es muy fácil de leer, aunque reconozco que es solo para los forofos del género. Alternatively you can choose not to agree to the use of cookies – in this case we will only use the essential cookies. Much of the story is as predictable as the characters, but makes for an entertaining and quick read which sees the book finished promptly. This magnificent heroic fantasy story is the 2nd volume of the "Drenai Sagas" series, from the author, the late great, David Gemmell.Beyond the Gate is rooted in women’s bodies and nature: a woman’s right to walk through streets and forests, through her own story. Modern day authors might have stretched this one book out to a trilogy and milked it for everything. It’s a bit Demons and Wizards in ambition and feels to me like late-era Led Zeppelin playing songs in the style of Pink Floyd – but it adds to this character a piano (and synth) which drives a lot of the songs and provides as many lead parts as the guitar. They change, sure, but it's a firework change; one minute a bundle of explosives the next minute exploded. In spite of his mixed blood though, I was glad that he had friends who respected him and a mother who loved him.

There is some skirting around why the grandfather doesn't get on with his daughter and the daughters sadness about being deserted by her husband.There are also elements that were a strong point in the previous volume in the series: valour, epic fights, heroic deeds. There were times when it seemed like the story was a little too similar to Legend; but for the most part this resolved into the fact that it was really the same conflict, a generation later. And one that included, within its impressive arsenal of strengths, a sly and laconic humour – heavily influenced by the personality of its leading man and executive producer, Richard Dean Anderson. Gemmell wrote heroic fantasy and his conception of heroism was robust, unapologetic and downright inspiring.

The novel, like the previous, has an afterword by the author who comes across as modest and kind, and I think this really shines through im his work and the characters he creates. There is an argument that The King Beyond the Gate follows this formula; that it's a rehash of Legend that fails to live up to the quality of the original.

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This time the characters didn't feel quite as real, I wasn't rooting for them like I had been before. The perpetually-imperiled nation of the Drenai is under attack once more, not by the Nadir hordes of the northern steppes, but by their own government under the tyrant Ceska.Gently shifting between the intimacy of the domestic space and a deep connection with the natural world, Best shows us beauty laced with danger, darkness, flashes of fear. On the one hand, the Author weaves in a few interesting threads, such as the Dragon Legion, which is an elite Drenai unit, or the horrifying Joinings. This book does not reach the emotional heights of Legend, but it’s still a superb story with great personal battles and large scale military action. The great threat to the people and land of Skoda is the tyrant, Emperor Ceska, in my view a sublime cross-reference of the Emperors, Caligula and Domitian, and his desire to rule the entire world by implementing fear, oppression and death. Some of the characters were very memorable, and I still like the philosophical/heroic speeches that pepper the text.