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| Original Title: | The King Beyond the Gate |
| ISBN: | 1857236653 (ISBN13: 9781857236651) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Drenai Saga #2, Ciclo Drenai (chronological order) #10 |
David Gemmell
Paperback | Pages: 415 pages Rating: 4.13 | 12507 Users | 224 Reviews
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A century has passed since the heroic defence of Dros Delnoch. But the people of the Drenai face a new terror: a mad emperor kept in power by two forces of unsurpassed evil. The Joinings are werebeasts of awesome power. The Dark Templars are warrior-priests whose fighting skills are without equal. Against them, the Drenai face certain defeat. One man, an outsider hated by the Drenai for his Nadir blood, and despised by the Nadir for his Drenai ancestry, sets out to bring down the emperor. He is one man against the armies of chaos. He is Tenaka Khan - the Prince of Shadows.
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| Title | : | The King Beyond the Gate (The Drenai Saga #2) |
| Author | : | David Gemmell |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 415 pages |
| Published | : | August 21st 1986 by Orbit (first published 1985) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Heroic Fantasy. Epic Fantasy. High Fantasy. Sword and Sorcery. Adventure |
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Ratings: 4.13 From 12507 Users | 224 ReviewsWrite-Up Regarding Books The King Beyond the Gate (The Drenai Saga #2)
4 StarsI have really enjoyed revisiting this book/series. I chose this series as part f my reading challenge for this year, and as a buddy read with one of my colleagues. Even though the first book in the series was released in 1984 (and the latest in 2000) the series has pretty much stood the test of time. It is a fantastic action adventure fantasy- with superb characters and brilliant world building, which brings the whole story/series to life.I have fond memories of discovering this seriesVote: 3,25Class: L-B2 (FP)I was positively impressed by the first book of the Drenai Saga (The Legend). It captivated me.I pinpointed some shortcomings of that book but I really hoped that they would be addressed by The King Beyond the Gate.Well, they weren't. It's a good book, not an awesome one.The World (2,50) is the same of the first book and it lacks too many details about its history, its geografy, and its languages. They can't all simply speak the same language, you can't tell me of some
Another good story by a great author. The master of creating the kind of hero people wish they could be. I only withheld a fifth star because part of the end was too rushed (didn't give any explanation about how Scaler captured Dros Delnoch after entering the fortress alone).This is a story about the overthrow Ceska, a tyrant emperor, by Tenaka Khan, Ananious, and brave mountain folk. Fine heroic fantasy in the face of impossible odds, especially against a special kind of monster called:
The King Beyond the Gate (The Drenai Saga #2), David GemmellThe King Beyond The Gate is a fantasy novel by British writer David Gemmell. It was published in 1985. It was the second book published by Gemmell, after Legend, published a year earlier. The book is set in the same fictional world as Legend, that of the Drenai, but is not a sequel in the usual sense as the events of the two books take place around a century apart. Thus the main protagonists of Legend are long since dead and play little
David Gemmell is one of my favorite authors of all time, but this book fell a little short. The biggest shortfall is that it is very similar to Legend, but it's not as good. All of the major elements that made Legend one of my favorite books are there, but they just aren't pulled off as well. The characters aren't as deep. The story isn't as engaging. The inspiration isn't as inspirational. The menace isn't as menacing. The battles aren't as awe-inspiring. None of these things would normally be
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. Attentive readers of the awesome Legend, which dealt with the First Nadir War, are obviously gonna be confused by Gemmell's almost-immediate mention of the Second Nadir War in between the first and second books. Well, turns out, in the wake of the events in Legend, the Drenai formed a badass ultra-elite regiment called the
The journey down memory lane continues with the re-reading of David Gemmell's second instalment.It was fortold that there were three: Gold, Ice and Shadow.Reading this many years later makes me realise how memorable some of these characters were. For me, Decado, known as the Ice Killer shone brightest. "No man alive could match me with the blades, therefore all my enemies became defenceless. I was no longer a warrior, but a murderer."Certain characters like Scaler didn't quite much up to the
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