{"id":370,"date":"2009-02-26T22:34:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T13:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/26\/review-of-david-gemmells-king-beyond-the-gate\/"},"modified":"2009-02-26T22:34:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T13:34:33","slug":"review-of-david-gemmells-king-beyond-the-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/26\/review-of-david-gemmells-king-beyond-the-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of David Gemmell&#8217;s King Beyond the Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"floatleft\">\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=daveva-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0345379055&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read three of David Gemmell&#8217;s books now, all in the Drenai series.  I&#8217;ve really enjoyed all three, but so far the first one has been the most impressive.  As a debut novel it takes a different look at traditional fantasy (or at least, a new one to me) and is a fun read.  The second book I read was the prequel (?) to Legend, his debut novel, and this third novel is set a few hundred years after Legend but was the second one published in the series.  So far, all three novels have been very similar, dealing with similar themes.  Actually, I&#8217;ve basically read three variations on the same novel, but it has been done well each time and each has been a good read.  I&#8217;m going to keep on plugging through the Drenai series for a while and see how that goes. <\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read three of David Gemmell&#8217;s books now, all in the Drenai series. I&#8217;ve really enjoyed all three, but so far the first one has been the most impressive. As a debut novel it takes a different look at traditional fantasy (or at least, a new one to me) and is a fun read. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}