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David McK (3816 KP) rated Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf in Books

Sep 26, 2021  
Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf
Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf
David Gemmell | 1993 | Fiction & Poetry
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8.0 (2 Ratings)
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David Gemmell is (was) one of my favourite authors.

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 ... ?

Who cares!