
The King Beyond the Gate
Drenai Series
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Narrated by:
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Sean Barrett
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By:
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David Gemmell
About this listen
A century has passed since the heroic defence of Dros Delnoch. But the people of the Drenai face a new terror: a mad emperor kept in power by two forces of unsurpassed evil. The Joinings are werebeasts of awesome power. The Dark Templars are warrior-priests whose fighting skills are without equal. Against them the Drenai face certain defeat. One man, an outsider hated by the Drenai for his Nadir blood and despised by the Nadir for his Drenai ancestry, sets out to bring down the emperor. He is one man against the armies of chaos.
He is Tenaka Khan - the Prince of Shadows.
©2011 David Gemmell (P)2017 Hachette Audioloved it
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Great as always
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open the gate!
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Highly recommend brilliant heroic fantasy
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I actually think that both Tanaka and Waylander are not that far apart in character. Both are men of honour in their own way. Both are loyal. Both are determined and both will ensure they do whatever it takes to achieve the goals they set themselves. Family is everything for them and woe betide any who try to threaten their safety.
They Chose to Dance
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It's all a great cacophony of saga and legend. Gemmell allows his characters to strut their stuff across the lands of the Drenai and even infuses a bit more humour into proceedings in the process. It's all delivered by Sean Barrett with his usual aplomb and marches along with plenty of fighting and action in an almost Cornwellian style applied to the fantasy genre. You can guess of course that I thoroughly enjoyed it.
It would be wrong in 2017 though to not sound at least a small note of caution for anyone who comes to these books afresh. This is 1980s fantasy, actually correction it's GREAT 1980s fantasy, among the very best. However, in the following decades numerous writers, many of them inspired by Gemmell have honed the craft and taken it to new levels of sophistication. This is John Wayne's True Grit rather than Tarantino's Django Unchained, it's The Great Escape more than it's Hacksaw Ridge. Everyone will have an opinion on which are better and personally I love them all but you won't find anything like the sophistication of a Sanderson or Rothfuss here. You will find a bloody good yarn though and for this reviewer that's what's most important.
Of Might and Magic!
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Can there be anything better than David Gemmell? Love all of his books.
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The reading performance is excellent also. The deep voice giving sophistication and gravitas to the personality of the leaders, helping everything become more believable.
A must read.
The King Beyond the Gate: Mature and Full Bodied
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Gemmell is unmatched. My all time favourite author
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great story
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