It's been a while since I did a book review, so I think I'll talk about David Gemmell's 1986 fantasy novel The King Beyond the Gate, which I just finished about a week ago.
I was a little disappointed by this book's predecessor, the renowned Legend. I expected it to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, as most of the other people that read it thought. It was okay, but my expectations were a little too high.
Anyway, The King Beyond the Gate is the sequel to Legend. It has been many years since the first book, and the Drenai Empire has been taken over by a cruel tyrant. Teneka Khan, the result of a political union between descendants of the heroic Earl of Bronze and his sworn enemy Ulric the Nadir warlord, must gather an army to take down the evil king and his army of Joinings, half-man, half-beast monsters that are quicker and stronger than ten men.
I don't really have a lot to say about this book. It was pretty good, but it wasn't great. It was a book that fits under the category I like to call Popcorn Reading. It was very entertaining, but it didn't have much else besides that. It was like eating a pork chop compared to eating a steak.
And that's pretty much all I have to say about it. The characterization was pretty good, and the plot was typical heroic fantasy. There isn't much in this book to give a Rant about.
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