I only read two books this last month.
Dark Prince by David Gemmel. This is the sequel to Lion of Macedon. I was skeptical about it to begin with because my brother told me there was an insane amount of magic in this book. Typically, it seems, Gemmel will put magic into a book and it just becomes another fantasy novel. I'm not looking for him to reinvent fantasy novels, but I wish he would do something different. His books have a formulaic feel that I find annoying if I read too many in a row. It was about Alexander's struggle with the demon that inhabited him in the first book. It was a fairly interesting take on the Alexander mythos. I would recommend this short duology to fantasy fans. I would even recommend it to history buffs. 5/5
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore. This book was just as bad as the movie. It's just a shame that I wasted more time reading it than I did watching it. It was short on story and it was short on character development. I thought that by reading the author's note at the end I would get a clearer idea of what the story was all about. I didn't. It just came across as another British isolationist/fear of isolation story. I'm a bit sick of that story line. A complete waste of time. 1/5
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Do you think someone who loved the movie would also love the book?
Maybe. It was hard to follow for me. It just sort of started with no real exposition. And there is no narration, only dialogue.
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