"Echoes of the Great Song" by David Gemmell.

The Echoes of a Great the Song War, carnage, and destruction - all the essentials needed to satisfy the archaic human attributes. Somehow though honor and wisdom find their way into this story. Echoes of the Great Song by David Gemmell is a fantasy tale filled with excitement and at the same time philosophical acumen. It achieves this through wars that are not without meaning and dilemmas met with reasoning. It contains the story of …

…who enjoy the thrill and excitement bloodshed provides with an actual thought-provoking story. Too rarely today do we find books that can create a hybrid of these, primarily opposite, attributes. This book puts them together beautifully by bringing the honor and nobility out of the shadows of war and killing. It is truly a challenge to bring attention to beauty in an act perceived as evil by society. This book certainly rises to that challenge.