A review by abigcoffeedragon
Legend by David Gemmell

3.0

This was middle of the road for me - I understand that this is one of "those books" that you have to read if you enjoy Fantasy, and more specifically, Heroic Fantasy - let me say that, without spoiling those who have not read, this is a book of three parts - the first is a few chapters of going to battle and getting ready to fight - then the battle takes 85% of the book - and then the epilogue - there is very little of anything as far as storytelling goes - it is one big romp of war - and the end of the battle - huge let down - it felt like the author said, well, I only have 1,000 words to write, so I will end the war and wrap the story - with a 'twist' that made me re-read, because i could not believe that he did what he did - I will maybe read one more Gemmell, but for the most part, he writes well enough to read, but the stories of his taht I have read leave wanting a Story - it is a string of action sequences with no real reason and a slew of people telling stories of the past for backstory - last chance will be Waylander ....