Reviews of Fantasy and Science Fiction books
Great end to the series. So this book covers the end game and is most closely aligned with the Iliad (from what I remember) than the rest of the books. It covers pretty much all the major points though does it in its own unique style. Honestly some of them are so brilliantly done that …
Continue reading “Fall of Kings by David and Stella Gemmell”
Not quite as good as the first but still very good. We start off shortly after the events of the first book. Things haven’t quite come to a head yet, war has not been officially declared, but things are looking more ominous. Andromache and Hektor are due to be married so all the great and …
Brilliant read, both sad and uplifting. This begins David Gemmell’s trilogy about the fall of Troy, though this book starts before the long war kicked off. It’s told from multiple viewpoints, some only a few paragraphs, other’s get much more screentime. Our main POV’s are Helikaon, a prince of Dardania, Andromache, sent as a bride …
I’ve always enjoyed reading about Roman history and wanted a (slight) change of scene from all the SFF I’ve been reading over the last few years. These have been on my radar for a good few years now so decided to finally give them a shot. Set during the end of the Roman Republic, we …
Barry's Bloody Books 