| Am I Missing Something?
I heard what a terrific author Gemmell was, so I thought I would pick up Legend to see what the fuss was all about.
I found the book to be awful. There was no character development what so ever. I had no inclination that Rek and Virae were falling in love until Gemmell told us that they already had. Too often I had no idea why a character did something as there appeared to be no motivation built up to the point that the action took place.
It seems to be a real shame, as there appears to be an excellent story in those pages, one that was good enough for me to continue to the end, despite what I found to be poor writting. To me, the book reads like it was written in point form, and drew zero emotion out of me.
So did I miss something? Does his writting improve in his later books, or do the people who like Gemmell like him for his clipped writting style? |