Grandiose characterization grandiose characters

Now this is the last part of Rigante cycle and ends the saga of Riganten-Highlander and Clansmen that need their meager but much beloved homeland in this fourth volume defend against powerful invaders and in a corrupt churchman become meat evil. Go to this end, the Riganten led by Kaelin Ring even an alliance with her worst enemy a.
But the hero of this novel is not Kaelin, whose youth could experience in "Ravenheart", but Gaise Macon, serving as mercenaries in the cavalry of the king and desperately fighting for his gloomy and seemingly heartless father's love and approval.
Bitter disappointment and heartbreak bring in Gaise finally revealed the worst sides. Whether and how this good man can overcome evil in itself - and vice versa, how and if an evil man learns to do good, that's the fascinating question to the surprising end.

Large and complex characters like the bounty hunter Huntsekker or gloomy Moidart, make this book a memorable pleasure and prove once more that David Gemmell is simply a master of character description.
Although Gaise Macon as the main character a little paler stays than many other beloved Gemmell-Hero, and it would be better still an interesting supporting character, he's a very credible hero and his development, both inside and outside can be sure no one indifferent.
Where Gemmell saves on lovingly detailed descriptions of landscapes, he is all the more detail joy and skill in all its "Larger than life heroes" in their thoughts and feelings, in the perfect dialogues and pithy Spürche, so many of them suitable for the book of collected human wisdom is, of course, not to forget, in the iris and geschwängerte pulverdampfverpestete Battle Action.

Four Star Three quarters
The "Storm Rider" is not quite as charming (just lacks a Jaim Grymauch) and not quite as pathetic as Ravenheart, with a few lengths in the middle part and a bit too much on storylines. Nevertheless, it is successful, heavyweight and very moving statements of Riganten saga with one end all the way to my heart, which after all, still leaving me thinking for a while.
It should be clear, it's also a real Gemmell