Andy Remic – the new David Gemmell?
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A great review of Andy Remic’s Gemmellesque fantasy, Kell’s Legend:
when I read that Andy Remic, with his maiden fantasy novel Kell’s Legend, was coming to “claim the post-Gemmell world” I sat up and took notice… someone had finally stepped forward to take up Gemmell’s tradition and give it a new lease of life.
While Remic does a decent job with the characterisation, he really delivers when it comes to pace and action. Kell’s Legend is a blistering read; the pace is frenetic and the action scenes come thick and fast.
Verdict: Andy Remic may have seemed like an unlikely writer to snatch up Gemmell’s battleaxe and continue to carve the fine tradition that the great man started, but he does a surprisingly good job of it. Kell’s Legend is a rip-roaring beast of a novel, a whirlwind of frantic battles and fraught relationships against a bleak background of invasion and enslavement… one of the most surprising novels of the year.
Read the full review over at Speculative Horizons.
4 Comments
November 19th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
OK, that is some claim!
I bought Kell’s Legend a few weeks ago, and was not sure when I would get around to reading it, now it is next on my list. Any comparison to Gemmell must raise the bar considerably.
November 19th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Personally, I love Remic’s hard n’ fast Combat K squad series. Been meaning to give these a go, however…
November 20th, 2009 at 9:28 am
What an ace name – Penny Dreadful. Can I use that in a Combat K book??
November 20th, 2009 at 11:30 am
This was sitting in a pile of books waiting to be read. It has just moved up the list and fingers crossed for a Gemmell successor.