A sad loss

A few months ago you may have seen that I wrote a post on the Lord of the Silver Bow, a novel by David Gemmell which was a re-telling of the Siege of Troy.  In that post I talked about how much I had enjoyed the novel and how I was excited about the next instalment being released. 
Well it now seems that I may not get to read the next novel and definitely will not get to see number 3 in the series as David Gemmell has sadly died.

Now I never met Mr Gemmell in person so I cannot comment on what he as like as an individual, but I did read a lot of his books.  As an author he was a person who created realistic characters and environments that enthralled reader, carrying them through his tale. 
As a reader I will miss the way that he could take a tale and make you care about the character and then put them into a situation where the unexpected would happen.  He never let you get complacent about what would happen in any story.  Just when you thought that you had guessed what would happen to the characters he would do something unexpected (like kill them off). 

While I will miss reading his new tales I will take time to truly relish the works that are out there