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The Solace of Water
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After the loss of her young son, Carver, an African-American preacher’s wife named Delilah Evans...
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Ninjak: Volume 5: The Fist & the Steel
Andres Guinaldo, Khari Evans and Matt Kindt
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THE FIST & THE STEEL FIGHT ONWARD! Many years from now, Earth's immortal master of war and the...
Speed Racer (2008)
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Born to race cars, Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless....
Dishonour and Obey
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Mercurius is back — and this time in England! Perfect for fans of Andrew Taylor, C J Sansom, S J...
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Gypsy Blood (All The Pretty Monsters #1)
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I'm not all that special, really. Or uncommon. I'm sure there are a lot of girls with old gypsy...
Moments of Being
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Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished...
Falling Angels
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Set in London at the turn of the last century, Falling Angels is a masterful, moving, and...
The Pawful Truth
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In addition to his library duties and his role as doting grandad, Charlie has enrolled in an early...
David McK (3372 KP) rated Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf in Books
Sep 26, 2021
Of his works, I find the Drenai series to be the best.
There, what, eleven novels in that series, all of which are largely stand-alone.
Out of those eleven, there's only a handful of novels centred around recurring key characters characters: most noticeably those with Druss (in order published, Legend, The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend and The Legend of Deathwalker (although he also appears in both White Wolf and The Swords of Night and Day), and those around the assassin Waylander)
This is the second of the three Waylander novels (Waylander, Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf and Hero in the Shadows ) which starts with Walyander and his adopted daughter Miriel living in quiet harmony in the wooded peaks, with Waylander - Dakeyras - mourning the death of his love Danyal. However, when a price is once more put on his head, Waylander finds himself pulled back into action, as Miriel and several of her companions find themselves going to the aid of the nomadic Nadir.
There may be an element of truth in the charge against Gemmell that some of his novels may be formulaic - we usually have a troubled hero, the mystic Source priests and their musings on life and death and the nature of evil, and - more often than not - a siege of some kind, but when the novels are all as good as this ... ?
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