Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow

4.5/5 stars Lord of the Silver Bow is my first foray into David Gemmell’s work and I must admit, it was a golden read. David Gemmell has been an inspiration for many modern fantasy authors these days, there’s even an annual Fantasy award named after him that has been established since 2009. It’s quite......more

Lord of the Silver Bow is the first story in Gemmell's Troy trilogy and it was a joy to read. Although this is the first Gemmell book that I have read, I know that he is often heralded as the King of writing Heroic Fantasy. His skill in this field mixed with a story incorporating some of the greates......more

SPEECHLESS. Utterly speechless. I was trolling on GR, as I so often do, when I saw a book cover with “TROY” written across it. I read the blurb, did hardly any research and picked it up mostly on whim. It was supposed to be about the Trojan War, something I knew of only through the Movie Troy. You re......more

I now have a YouTube channel that I run with my brother, called 'The Brothers Gwynne'. Check it out - The Brothers Gwynne “Our lives are spent sailing in the mist, hoping for a burst of sunlight that can make sense of who we are.” Lord of the Silver Bow is, firstly, an awesome title! One that ref......more

updated on June 19, 2011 for piss poor grammar mistakes (I'm sure there are more but I just found some today). So I asked for a recommendation for a historical fiction book that had court politics, backstabbing, and violence (you know all the stuff you are not supposed to love in a book) and I receiv......more