Echoes Of The Great Song: An awe-inspiring, stunning epic adventure from the master of heroic fantasy

This marvellous heroic fantasy is another splendid example of the author's enormous capability to bring another fantasy story that is filled with magic and splendour.Storytelling is once more of a superb quality, the story wonderfully structured and executed, and all characters come brilliantly to life within this tale about overbearing, humility and wonder.Its another amazing book that will show people's actions and emotions, in which vanity and frailty, loyalty and betrayal, courage and cowardice, overbearing and humility will all play a very important part within this wonderful story.The story is about the Avatars, who are, or so they think, immortal and living like gods, but who are still living in the old ways while their empire is dying, and not to forget their immortality is only guaranteed by crystals, but these are also waning, and to matters even worse the Crystal Queen is hunting for blood and crystals.The main characters in this tale are our blood-brothers, the Avatar Talaban, and a haunted warrior, Touchstone, the Old Holy One and Builder of Time, Anu, the peasant girl who'll become a goddess, Sofarita, and Viruk, an Avatar madman and killer.The Avatars in their self-interested behaviour believe themselves invincible, but when they find out that their sources for strength and power are waning, they need to seek help from, in their eyes, inferior races to oppose the aggressors who are looking for their blood and crystals to feed their Crystal Queen, Almeia.What is to follow is an amazing tale where SF, supernatural elements and fantasy historical events are intertwined in a most fascinating fashion, to give this whole book an educational lesson in history, humanity and humility, and all this factors combined make this wonderful book such a joy to read.Highly recommended, for this is another astonishing heroic fantasy tale with a brilliant humanly meaning, and that's why I like to call this excellent book: "A Wondrous Great Song"!

A strange novel from David Gemmel. It’s full of his great story telling ability, but not his usual standard for a Story. It’s all a little bit Sci-Fi mixed with fantasy. It’s still an enjoyable read given the quality of storytelling David always applies to his work, and it has that wonderful quirky array of characters including the semi-psychotic and undefeatable warrior you always want to know more about, but in the end the book was a one off because I think David himself could sense the story really was going anywhere and was too easily closed off. It could have been yet another version of the whole ‘invaders from another planet’ theme but I think he had done that to death. So while it’s a nice distraction it’s probably not one of his best works. You’re not going to lose yourself in this and wait anxiously for the next instalment. One for your collection but no one you’ll read again.

yet another great tale.

I have read absolutely every book by David Gemmell and highly recommend them to any fantasy reader

I love all David Gemmell's books and this is no exception! Great story and engaging characters all the way through.Have read it a few times and will read it again!