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Original Title:	Wolf in Shadow
ISBN:	0099534703 (ISBN13: 9780099534709)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Jon Shannow #1, Sipstrassi #5

Wolf in Shadow (Jon Shannow #1) Paperback | Pages: 326 pages

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Hmmm. First off I should declare myself as a card carrying long term fan of David Gemmell's work. I've read a dozen or so of his books and variously loved or very much liked them. Technically I like all the components of this book. It's post apocalyptic, its gunslinger-y. I'm not sure why the book didn't really work for me. Possibly it's having read Blood Song, Fool's Assassin, and The Name of the Wind back to back, setting me up for a book-hangover of epic proportions. Many of my Goodreads friends have read Wolf in Shadow and they give it a remarkably high 4.41 average! And yet... The book reminded me of The Gunslinger by Stephen King to some degree and came out only a few years after that work (which I loved). For some reason though I kept getting a Michael Moorcock vibe off this story - the writing and the density of new ideas seemed Moorcockian to me. I like Moorcock - though perhaps less than I did 30 years ago when I really loved his work. So, I'm still saying it was like these things I like but... OK a list: i) It's a short book with a hell of a lot going on. Strange new encounters rush at you. A lot of it felt quite brief without enough flesh on the bones to be real. ii) Lots of the communication between the major characters is by magic and that makes the world feel small to me and the distances arbitrary. The big bad and the big good basically teleport/hologram in for a chat whenever they feel like it and ... I don't like it. It feels random and removes tension. iii) I don't like the magic. The Sipstrassi stones ... I just don't buy into it, the ESPers (hate that name) Gah. I don't know. It just didn't gel for me. There were some things I did like - Gemmell's too good a writer for it all to be miss. So 3* is how I feel about it. Join my 3-emails-a-year newsletter #prizes ....

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Title	:	Wolf in Shadow (Jon Shannow #1)
Author	:	David Gemmell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 326 pages
Published	:	December 10th 1987 by Arrow (first published 1987)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic

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An excellent story of good vs evil after Armageddon comes.

Perusing a used book store (one of my favorite places on Earth) I stumbled upon a series of books by David Gemmell. I had seen his name before, but as I do not have any personal friends that are fantasy readers I had no idea who he was. I purchased this first in the series about Jon Shannow, and I have to tell you, I experienced that magical euphoria you get when you discover a brilliant writer for the first time. Looking him up on wikipedia, I was downcast to learn he passed away while writing

Initially, I thought that I wouldn't enjoy this book very much, but I was very wrong. After the first few chapters this book became a page turner. Great story-line with a beautiful ending. This book contains a little bit of everything (action, adventure, love, wisdom, history, etc).

Wolf in Shadow (Jon Shannow, #1), David GemmellWolf in Shadow, is a post-apocalyptic heroic fantasy novel by British author David Andrew Gemmell, first published in 1987. Wolf in Shadow is set in the future, three hundred years after the "fall", an apocalyptic event of which little is initially known, but which is regarded in the book as an event akin to Noah's flood in which the world shook out of its orbit tilting it on its axis, which subsequently resulted in the oceans rising and destroying

Sci-fi westernThis is the first of a trilogy. It is a great mix of wild west, science fiction and swords and sorcery. Gemmell was a colossal talent and this is among his best work. If you want adventure at a breakneck pace, this is it

David Gemmell comes up trumps again with WOLF IN SHADOW, the first of his Jon Shannow trilogy. These books are slightly set apart from the rest of his writing because they're post-apocalyptic science fiction efforts rather than straightforward fantasy.Fans, however, will quickly realise that it's business as usual for the author, with flawed heroes wandering through a dangerous countryside and facing insurmountable odds in their quests for justice. This time around, the action is mainly inspired

I hesitated a bit at reading the Jon Shannow books because they looked like they'd be in a more modern setting, and they are, with guns. However, I came to like the Shannow character as well as any of Gemmell's heroes and much enjoyed the whole set of Shannow books.