Waylander (A Drenai Novel)
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Several rungs above the good right into the fabulous Anne McCaffrey Has pace, conviction and gritty resolute vitality...The result is a book that will be enjoyed by Tolkien fans TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT David Gemmell manages to take a familiar, generic scenario and infuse it with meaning...it's a thoughtful genre fantasy, a bit chewier than most, and quite, quite tasty LOCUS
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Britain's king of the heroic fantasy continues his classic, bestselling Drenai saga.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the first ever Gemmell book I read(I found it in my dads bookcase) and read it in 2 days. It is simply superb and a novel for others to aspire to. The plot is brilliant ,dark and fascinating, the characters are much more subtle than your everyday heroes and heroines. This book shows that heroes don't always ride white stallions and carry magic swords, a modern day classic. David Gemmell the king of fantasy.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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He is the Waylander, a man of mystery and a dark past, on a path to redemption. Standard heroic fantasy you might think but this is David Gemmell don't forget and he tells a story in the same fashion that made the original Star Wars films so great. He writes with real depth to his characters, where everyone is a product of their own pasts. There is some good in the villians and bad in the heroes and this is what makes nearly all of Gemmell's works at best brilliant and at worst entertaining. The Waylander moves somewhere between the two as the main hero lacks the brutish innocence of Druss or the hard charisma of Connavar, two of his greatest characters. If you have, like myself, read Druss first, then this is a great book. If you are new to Gemmell then start with the excellent LEGEND and then pick this up. These tales really take me back to my childhood favorites Conan and Michael Moorcock's Elric. Good book with a good story.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I found this novel had some interesting ideas in it, and I liked the main character of Waylander as a loner assassin, but my main problem was the very one-dimentional character of the only woman in the book who had a significant part. She complains a lot, gets snappy with Waylander and then decides after all that she's in love with him. Really? I'm not convinced. Apart from fulfilling the role of love interest there wasn't much point in her actually being part of the story. Unfortuately there just wasn't enough here to make me want to read sequals.
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Gemmell at his finest
Ever since reading David Gemmell's 'Troy' series of books I have been hooked on Gemmell as an author. Read more
Published 11 months ago by mrogers
Waylander
As always David Gemmell gets inside the characters and whether you love them or hate them, you can be sure that by the end of the book, your hanging on their every emotion and... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Linda Smith
Definitely worth your time!
I am currently reading through Gemmell's Drenai novels, and this one i thoroughly enjoyed. I was pleased that it takes a different angle to its predecessors, and also focuses on... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Alex
Shallow, predictable and cheesey
After all the positive reviews I was expecting at the very least to be entertained, how wrong I was! Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2009 by knighty
Waylander
An excellent intro to the series. The type of book that entrances and holds your attention.
Published on 20 April 2009 by TM Scott-Thomas
Gemmell at his best, in what is possibly his finest novel.
Waylander is probably - after Legend - the second essential Drenai novel from David Gemmell. It sees the birth of his second essential character, Waylander. Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2008 by Robbie Swale
Waylander - the one that started me off
Waylander is my favourite David Gemmell character ever, head and shoulders above the rest. A good man turned bad, or a bad man turned good? Read all three and then decide. Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2008 by Juno
Very entertaining light fantasy story, if only I had not read others...
Let me first of all point out that this book/story is a very entertaining light historic fantasy and this is something that I have come to expect from Gemmell. Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2007 by Waqar
The Ultimate Antihero
David Gemmell's work needs no introduction. He has made an everlasting mark on the fantasy genre with tightly woven tales and outstanding chracterisation. Read more
Published on 25 Jan 2007 by Mr. G. Battle
Third in the Drenai Series
Sadly David Gemmell died a short while ago and I find it difficult to review a book that I first read 20 years ago when David was very much alive and only just beginning his craft... Read more
Published on 23 Nov 2006 by J. Chippindale
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