β Scribed by Gemmell, David
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The more stuff by David Gemmell I go back and read, the angrier I become at the senseless and random twist of fate that deprived us of him. Damn, but this man was a consummate adventure storyteller. It never seems to matter in his work how arch his heroes and villians may be, or how familiar the landscapes and battlefields against which his stories play out. Somehow, under Gemmell's pen, heroic fantasy always managed to feel exhilarating and fresh.
Dark Moon is nothing less than a masterpiece of the genre. With a uniformly sensitive and heartfelt handling of character, and a theme that broadens the moral simplicity of high-fantasy's workaday good-vs-evil tropes into an understanding that the greatest good and greatest evil often cannot avoid walking hand in hand, Dark Moon (a stand-alone work) is a mighty epic through and through.
I'm a critic who is loath to resort to gushy hyperbole, even when I can't help but rave about something. So the best way I can indicate just how powerful a storyteller Gemmell was is this: there is a single event, a moment of quiet profundity, that occurs on the last page of this book, that packs a stronger punch than most entire fantasy trilogies.
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