Waylander
A Adventure, High Fantasy, Fantasy book. Once I loved life ad the sun was a golden...
Le Roi de Drenaï a été assassiné. Une armée d’envahisseurs déferle sur le pays, avec pour mot d’ordre de tuer hommes, femmes et enfants. Mais tout espoir n’est pas perdu. Il repose sur les épaules de celui que la nation surnomme Waylander. Seul, il va s’aventurer en territoire nadir pour retrouver la célèbre Armure de Bronze, symbole de liberté.Mais peut-on faire confiance à ce Waylander ?...Après tout, c’est lui qui a assassiné le roi.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 448 pages
- ISBN: 9782811200329 / 2811200320
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I caught a pebble in the moonlight. David Gemmell, Waylander // Once I loved life ad the sun was a golden joy. But joy is sometimes short lived, priest. And when it dies, a man will seek inside himself and ask: Why? Why hate is so much stronger than love? Why the wicked reap such rich rewards? Why do strenght and speed count for more than morality and kindness? And then the man realizes...there are no answers. None. And for the sake of his sanity the man must change perceptions. Once I was a lamb, playing in a green field. Then the wolves came. Now I am a eagle, and I fly in a different universe.''And now you kill... I still say this is madness, whispered Jonat.I know at this moment Im inclined to agree with you.But well go anyway, muttered Jonat. One of these days someone is going to listen to my advice and Ill probably die of the shock! David Gemmell, Waylander //
Unlike my ambivalence to Tenaka Khan, I very much liked the eponymous Waylander (aka Dakeyras) as an imperfect hero (he's not quite the anti-hero, though he skirts that line nicely). Also, I enjoy the fact that I get to use "eponymous" in a review; happens far too rarely.When I first started Waylander (Drenai Saga, #3), it took me a... Redemption was always one of David Gemmell's most persistent themes, perhaps finding its most compelling expression in this tale of Dakeyras the Waylander, an apparently heartless assassin caught up in a brutal invasion of the Drenai homeland. Gemmell's depiction of war eschews any comfortable fantasy conventions to present something... 2.5/5 stars. It's a shame, but what I'm starting to suspect from David Gemmell novels is that if you've read one of his, you've read them all.I mean you have the old weathered soldier who has lived a morally suspect life, has contemplated retirement, has the same realist "shit happens, but oh well" philosophy usually as a result of...
