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I apologize for presuming to tell you what to do with your life, BUT don't read this Troy series book first! Sorry, I had to get that off my chest. So if you do happen to read first the first book in the series, Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow, and assuming that you liked it; then it goes almost without saying (but, of course, I am saying) that you will naturally read all the way through the final installment in the Troy series. But was it worth it? Yes. How is this particular book compared to the first two? It is a four-star (compared to a five-star read for book 1 and a 4.5-star read for book 2) read that you just have to make. We all know that Troy is doomed. We all anticipate that some of our much-beloved characters will no doubt take their last heroic breaths upon those crisp white pages. We've all read the 15,693 lines of the Iliad. We all saw the Brad Pitt movie. So while reading this book we all know that there will be no surprises, right. Or will there? I loved the wickedly clever reimagining of the Troy story. Just how did the Trojan Horse get into Troy? - Classic! Keep in mind that the author died while composing this book. His wife picked up his shield & quill and fought the good fight in his place while she was still mourning for her husband. If this story gets a little weepy near the end, I suppose that this book was part eulogy for Gemmell by his wife. Hey, I almost shed half a tear during one or two of the passages. I did wait quite a while between reading the first and the last book; I had to "psyche" myself up for it.


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Troy Fall of Kings Troy Trilogy #3 David Gemmell Stella Gemmell 9780593052259 Books Reviews

*Review first published on Goodreads*

“Beware the wooden horse, Agamemnon King, Battle King, Conqueror, for it will roar to the skies on wings of thunder and herald the death of nations.”

“A pox on riddles, priest!” replied the king. “Tell me of Troy and of victory.”

“The last king of the Golden City will be Mykene. The gods have spoken.”
—THE ORACLE OF THE CAVE OF WINGS

And he is our beloved, reluctant General, Banokles.

At some point in our lives, we have heard about the fallen City of Troy. About the subterfuge that the Greeks employed to infiltrate the City of Troy. Troy the movie featured the colossal Trojan Horse, as in Virgil's Aeneid that speaks of the Trojan Horse. According to Quintus Symrnaeus, the use of a great wooden horse that hid an elite force was the brainchild of Odysseus. With Fall of Kings, David Gemmell took a different approach. The Mykenes had tricked the Trojans into opening the gates to horsemen whom they presumed were Hektor's cavalry. Hektor's cavalry, whom David had so cleverly named 'The Trojan Horse'.

"That was a good ploy, though, wasn't it? The Trojan Horse. Who wouldn't open the gates for them, riding like that?" Banokles shook his head in admiration.

David and Stella Gemmell had done a marvellous job with the military tactics, the blood and the gore, and the battles and sieges which culminates in the fall of the Golden City. The bout between Hektor and Achilles, the latter avenging the death of his shield bearer, Patroklos, was gripping yet heartbreaking. An epic duel that resulted in the death of the two greatest warriors Achilles and Hektor.

The Troy series was beautifully penned down to tell the story of not the Golden City, but about fallen heroes and valiant warriors who had stood in allegiance to their beloved city. It tells the story of honour and duty; of love and friendship.

//Unbidden, faces appeared in Andromache's mind Hektor, the bravest of the Trojans; his brothers Dios and Antiphones; the tale spinner Odysseus; the valiant Mykene warriors Argurios, Kalliades, and Banokles. And Helikaon, her lover, her husband, the keeper of her heart.

I have walked with heroes, she thought.//

Conclusion David Gemmell's Troy series puts Troy the movie to shame. And this is coming from the person who was temporarily obsessed with the movie back in 2004.
Long ago I'd read the first two in the series and was eager for this one to come out except Mr. Gemmell went and died and put this one on hold. Many years later I'm going through a Bronze Age interest and decide to revisit Mr. Gemmell's work. After reading books 1 & 2 I decided to see how 3 is. Honestly a little underwhelming after the first two. While Mrs. Gemmell did an admirable job cleaning this up for publishing it, the story becomes a little contrived to make events fit a timeline (Moses vs. Troy vs. Thera) and the bend/warping of the Iliad. Having said that I do give cudoes to the story line for best characters with the best moment being the duel between Achilles and Hector. I feel I'm robbing it with a 3 star rating vs. 4 but defend it because this is a step down from the earlier stories and while it's very readable, the love isn't there.
I apologize for presuming to tell you what to do with your life, BUT don't read this Troy series book first! Sorry, I had to get that off my chest. So if you do happen to read first the first book in the series, Troy Lord of the Silver Bow, and assuming that you liked it; then it goes almost without saying (but, of course, I am saying) that you will naturally read all the way through the final installment in the Troy series. But was it worth it? Yes. How is this particular book compared to the first two? It is a four-star (compared to a five-star read for book 1 and a 4.5-star read for book 2) read that you just have to make. We all know that Troy is doomed. We all anticipate that some of our much-beloved characters will no doubt take their last heroic breaths upon those crisp white pages. We've all read the 15,693 lines of the Iliad. We all saw the Brad Pitt movie. So while reading this book we all know that there will be no surprises, right. Or will there? I loved the wickedly clever reimagining of the Troy story. Just how did the Trojan Horse get into Troy? - Classic! Keep in mind that the author died while composing this book. His wife picked up his shield & quill and fought the good fight in his place while she was still mourning for her husband. If this story gets a little weepy near the end, I suppose that this book was part eulogy for Gemmell by his wife. Hey, I almost shed half a tear during one or two of the passages. I did wait quite a while between reading the first and the last book; I had to "psyche" myself up for it.