en. Al final, en itálica, lo que escribí en su momento,
Pero visto con perspectiva no puedo dejar de valorar a este escritor que murió eny que hasta tiene un premio de Fantasía que lleva su nombre y que fue creado enpara premiar aquellas novelas de fantasía que mantienen el espíritu de las obras de David Gemmell.
Que quienes han ganado este premio Naaaaaaa, desconocidos casi todos: unos tales Sapkowski, Sanderson, Abercrombie, Rothfuss, Weeks, don Nadies, vamos.
Bueno, que si no le conocéis y os gusta Abercrombie, aquí tenéis al precursor del Grimdark actual.
Así que casi que reniego del comentario que sigue: este tío era un Grande,
Fantasía sencilla, sin grandes ninguna pretensiones literarias pero MUY amena de leer,
Recomendable para seguidores de la Fantasía, no para los seguidores de la Literatura, Salen los héroes fuertotes que gana a los malos a golpe de espada y fuerza, Salen pequeños romances de los que suelen aderezar también estas historias, pues en casi todos los relatos de Fantasía hay un poco de eso.
Aparece un poco de magia, varios reinos o razas en lucha y los inevitables malos en este caso personajes planos totales que se van cargando los sudodichos héroes.
En resumen, para pasar el rato y desengrasar de otro tipo de lecturas, NO esperéis nada maravilloso pero sí una novela de consumo que se lee facilonamente,
Decir que son un total delibros pero que cada uno comienza y termina, no te deja colgado.
Esiste la redenzione
Straziante permettere al mondo di spazzare via aspettative e sogni ancora più triste, forse, diventare parte di quel mondo nella disperata speranza di non dimenticare il passato e inseguire una giustizia sempre più fittizia e vuota.
Qui l'onore ed il perdono non possono trovare spazio e gli ideali pronunciati tempo addietro hanno il sapore di cenere, un ricordo sempre più lontano dopo ogni quadrella scoccata.
Shame on me!
Vec vise od deset godina citam epsku fantastiku i ovo je prvi put da citam Gemela.
Skitalac mi se jako svideo zbog nekoliko stvari, Pre svega jer je knjiga kratka zaboravila sam da knjige epske fantastike zapravo mogu da stanu u moju torbu, Radnja je predvidiva ali je na momente i jako uzbudljiva,
ASAP se vracam herojskoj fantastici,
Abercrombie here I come! : Абсолютно разочарование за мен! :
Книгата предхожда времево първите две от серията, но е много послаба, Тук шаблоните и липсата на дори минимална логика в поведението на героите дотолкова пресоляват манджата, че крайния резултат е безкрайно неприятен и бездарен. А аз знам, че Гемел умее много повече!
Всички са черни, като бой на негри в тъмна нощ, но изведнъж, неизвестно защо стават бели, беленички като пряспа лански сняг. Не може така, ама никак не може!
Отделно, Дренай е найнещастната фентъзи държава, постоянно някой я напада, някой се опитва да я завладее и унищожи, ма ядец не им се получава, все нещо не достига да се отървем. А белите конци, с които е съшита историята са ясно различими дори от орбитата на МКС. :
Имам четвъртата книга, надявам се в нея нивото да не е толкова ниско. Finally I managed to get around to reading my very first Gemmell! It will definitely not be my last one.
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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 onlybecause 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! Redemption was always one of David Gemmell's most persistent themes, perhaps finding its most compelling expression in this tale of Dakeyras the Waylander, an apparently heartless assassin caught up in a brutal invasion of the Drenai homeland.
Gemmell's depiction of war eschews any comfortable fantasy conventions to present something every bit as ugly as realworld conflict, complete with massacre and rape.
However, it's the characterisation that really shines here by being compelled to reconnect with humanity Dakeyras rediscovers his soul, The character proved enough of a draw to spawn two sequels which are well worth reading, but don't quite reach the same heights.
Waylander The Drenai Saga, Waylander, David Gemmell
Waylander is a fantasy novel by British writer David Gemmell, published in.
It is the first of three Waylander stories, followed by Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf and Waylander III: Hero In The Shadows.
The assassin Waylander is doomed to travel the world in search of revenge against those who killed his family.
After allying with a priest, a fellow assassin, a young woman and three children in her charge, Waylander gradually redeems himself and tries to save the kingdom that is plummeted into chaos.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز ششم ماه ژانویه سالمیلادی
عنوان: ویلندر کتاب سوم از سری درنای نویسنده: دیوید گمل
دیوید گمل پس از کتاب اسطوره که در سالمیلادی منتشر شد در سالمیلادی کتاب پادشاه آن سوی دروازه که ادامه ای بر کتاب نخستش بود را به دست ناشرانش سپرد و با چاپ ویلندر سومین جلد از سری کتابهایی که سری درنای نام گرفتند کار خود در دفتر روزنامه را رها کردند و نویسنده تمام وقت شدند, این تازه آغاز موفقیتهای این نویسنده بود و پس از آن با بیش از سی جلد کتاب به یک چهره تبدیل شدند. داستانی گیرا و پر کشش است در دنیای درنای میگذرد اما ادامه اسطوره نیست. ا. شربیانی Final ./stars
I have read first two books in the series starting with publishing order, and i have to admit i was a bit confused at the world in this one because i didn't understand that it happens before sitelink Legend amp sitelink The king beyond the gate until i figured it out by certain hints.
I thought all books happen years and years in the future, but this book proved me wrong,
Overall, this would be a first book in the series if started chronologically, But I wouldn't recommend starting out with this one better to start out with publishing order it will be much easier to catch the hints and terms.
Anyway, this series is great because most of these books are stand alone despite characters appearing sometimes in other books.
What I also loved was the fact that this book was about how the organization of the have been founded and for me, it was the greatest part of the story.
This book also featuresparticular main characters as a focus:
An antihero assassin, a priest who wanted to stop the killing of his brothers thus going against everything they believed in that all life is precious, and a Drenai general.
But there were also a lot more characters,
This story is not kind Like in Legend, Gemmell didn't shy away from killing characters, even important ones.
I barely contained my tears near the end,
Also, our wonderful cover:
STORY amp CHARACTERS:
Orien, the famous King of the Drenai, abdicated in the favor of his kind and honorable son, Nialliad.
But he didn't leave his legendary Bronze armor to his heir, Many years later, Vagrian forces started invading Drenai, and to make things worse, Drenai King Nialliad was murdered by an assassin with a crossbow.
Things are getting worse day by day, the fortress/port city of Dros Purdol is under siege and some forces are hidden in the Skultik Forest.
But one of the worst things is hunting down, torturing and murdering priests of the Source who have strong magical abilities, even capable of killing people.
But they took a wow to never harm anyone and this is why they die, never able to defend themselves, else they betray everything they fought for.
Their arch enemies are Dark Brotherhood, who use their powers to hurt people in spirit realm and in the human realm.
One of the priests of the Source, Dardalion, is captured and tortured for fun, until one man interupts them and demands his stolen horse back.
That man is the assassin called Waylander, who has a really notorious reputation, Waylander didn't want to free Dardalion at first, but changed his mind, And after they started traveling together, they met Danyal and her children, Once again, Waylander thinks his decisions over and in the end accepts to help her and her children in order to lead them to safety.
But during the way, Dardalion is attacked by a group of Dark Brotherhood in the spirit realm, and to help him to wake him up Waylander was forced to feed him his blood, which in turn turns Dardalion into someone else a man who was a pacifist and wouldn't hurt anyone now wants to fight back and even kill people like the members of Dark Brotherhood.
During one of the nights, a blind man appears in front of the group and says to Waylander that there is a way for his redemption.
Once upon a time, the old man was called Orien, and the only thing that can help save Drenai, raise the moral of the soldiers, is his legendary "magic" armor of Bronze which should be delivered to general Egel.
After all, Waylander is the assassin who murdered Orien's son for money,
Now hunted by Dark Brotherhood, Nadir forces, Vagrian's forces and their general Kaem, and also by a famed assassin, Cadoras the Stalker, Waylander must go into enemy territory, to Raboas, where the Bronze Armor is hiden.
In the fort where the attack is happening, Drenai officer Gellan and his other comrades struggle with the Vagrian forces and they must hold out until Drenai general Karnak arrive with the reinforcements, so they could go into Dros Purdol, get into the city to break the siege.
CHARACTERS:
Waylander is a famous assassin who had changed after the death of his family.
When his family was murdered he set on a revenge spree and murdered the killers, and later started career as an assassin.
But his latest murder, murder of his own King for money, was the point of no return, Betrayed by his employer, Kaem, he tries to escape but also kills Kaem's own son, thus making an enemy of both nations.
Once ruthless, jaded man, he saves a priest of the Source, Dardalion, by whim and discovers that the priest himself had much more impact on his personality than ever.
Now his only chance to redeem himself for everything comes in the quest for Bronze Armour,
I myself can't tell how I feel about him, despite him being anti hero which I like to read about as they are so rare he just didn't work out for me in the way
for me to like or hate him.
He was solid and okay character all in all,
Dardalion is a priest who was saved by a whim from being tortured to death, He is a mystic and thus is able to see emotions and memories from the clothes, which usually horrifies him as he sees many unpleasant things, he can expel his soul and scout the ground, and do many other things.
But his order doesn't allow murder their power is too great to be used like their enemies, Dark Brotherhood, do.
But, after being tainted by blood of Waylander, his opinions changed he is still true to the source but someone must take a fall and start battling against Dark Brotherhood.
The way it was going, the Source Priests would all die suffering, and there wouldn't be anyone to stop them.
Thus he becomes the first Battle Priest of the Source,
Dardalion made me smile, he is so honest and kind, and even knowing so many things, he wages a battle of his own to serve the source by keeping it's priests alive, no matter what the cost.
Overall, I enjoyed every single moment with him, he was just wonderful,
Danyal, her daughters and son are refugees, who struggle to stay alive, Danyal, a former actress, would do anything to survive, even accepting help from the murderer, But Danyal is judgmental, hurt by so many people she finds it hard to trust again as before,
Danyal's big problem is her judgmental nature and she won't listen to reasons, In any case, she is the character i liked the least in this whole book, She is a fighter and she won't give up, but her personality is different matter,
Durmast is Waylander's "friend" in the same career as he,
Cadoras is an assassin who is hired to kill Waylander, but he wants to do it properly.
Kaem is the Vagrian general who hired Waylander to murder Drenai's King, but in the process betrayed Waylander, who, by accident, killed his son during his escape.
Now he won't stop at nothing until he gets the fortress under siege, the Bronze Armor and Waylander's head,
Karnak is a famous Drenai general who wants to save the fortress and also get a bigger reputation.
Overall, he is capable and charismatic leader who boosts the moral of the people,
Gellan, Jonat and Sarvaj are Drenai officers who are currently under the attack in the fort.
Gellan is a former friend of Waylander, he knew Waylanderyears ago when hey had been best friends, But tragedy found him too, but he chose to stay a soldier and fight till the end, Jonat is the man who despises all nobles and Sarvaj is honorable man who disapporoves the fact Gellan strives to make Jonat into a leader knowing that Jonat has absolutely no respect for Gellan and that he hates every single noble that exists.
OVERALL:
Interesting book, not as strong as Legend was but I still loved it.
Overall, would I recommend someone to read chronologically The answer is no, Do not start with this book, The system of magic is a bit more explained in the first book, sitelink Legend, and it would be easier if you know some things in advance.
This will be a welcome surprise then,
I will sum up what I generally think about it this way:
LIKED:
Drenai history how certain organizations came to be.
Dardalion is probably the best character in this book, I also loved Gellan and Sarvaj and some other side characters too, I was surprised by the actions of certain people and this is also a,
The Magic System.
The emotion level warning,
Story.
Realistic portrayal of war,
Paranormal creatures.
Return of familiar terms like Armour of Bronze, Nadir, Drenai people, Source, . . etc.
SOSO:
Waylander is an interesting character, but I dont feel anything about him.
Karnak was interesting and he plays one of the important parts in the story, but I dont like him, nor I hate him.
The same goes for Durmast amp Cadoras as well,
DISLIKED:
Instalove/hate: From bitter enemies to "I love you, " It makes it kind of unbelievable,
Main female character Danyal, She was just plain boring and very, very irritating, Thankfully, onlyor so include her POVs,
Like I said above, lack of strong female leads, Danyal basically leaves to search for adventure.
That doesn't sound like resposible .
Wishing there was more about Egel, since he plays one of the important parts in the book,
Fast pacing. I mean too fast.
OTHER IMPORTANT INFO:
Standalone: YES,
Point of View: Third POV, multiply characters,
Cliffhanger: Nonexistent,
Triggers:
Love triangle: No,
Angst: There is,
Supernatural: Yes, Group of specific magicians who can expel their souls, command the bodies of other people etc, Some other creatures are in it too,
Explicit content: Mentioned,
Ending type:
Note: Do not read this series in chronological order.
Trust me.
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