Legend : The First in the Hunter Series

from mbmackay

Billed as "heroic fantasy" this book lives up to its name. I'm still not convinced by the fantasy genre - it always seems to be gallant knights of the middle ages with a dash of ghouls and dragons. But this book nails it - it is a great yarn, well told, and the medieval siege fighting and the sup...

from Rob.Thompson

Firstly, to be clear, Legend isn't the finest set of words ever committed to paper. In some ways David Gemmell's writing is rather unsophisticated and technically flawed (in some places its actually rather raw) but this doesn't matter. Taken as a whole Legend is perhaps it's one of the most enter...

from DeltaQueen50

From the Thermopylae to the Alamo there have been battles where the few have held back the mighty and Legend by David Gemmell is such a story. This fantasy novel, first published in 1984, tells the story of how the Empire of Drenai is under threat from the united tribes of the Nadir. An army of o...

from crackberrybooks

It must be a good 10 years since I last read this, and picking it up again was brilliant. Like an old friend. An old friend with a bloody big axe :) I'm really not one for reading about battles and wars in general, but Gemmell's characters are always engaging and all my usual reading rules go out...

from saltmanz

Lord Ulric Wolfshead has united the Nadir tribes, and now casts his expansionary gaze on the lands of the Drenai people. All that stands between the Drenai and Ulric's invading armies is the six-walled fortress of Dros Delnoch, held by a mere ten thousand men. But Druss the Legend, the ax-wieldin...