Sword in the Storm by David Gemmell

So after starting to read Anne Frank, I needed to read some fantasy again. I got this book for my husband for Christmas after reading some great reviews on it. This is the first adult fantasy book and so I was afraid it would be very wordy and spend pages describing something that could take one page, you know what I mean. Anyway, I am happy to say that this was indeed a very good book. I enjoyed how it lasted longer that two days to read like many of the pre teen/teen books I read. I'm not afraid to try some other adult literature as well once I finish the Rigante Series. There are four books in this series. For those who are sensitive to sexual scenes, I would say there is a reason that this is an adult book and not for younger kids. There are a few brief sexual scenes that are a little more detailed than younger people need to necessarily read. Otherwise, it is a great story. It is mostly a war book following a young man as he travels and pretty much grows into a war hero and man. He struggles to fight his inner demons and does some pretty horrible stuff when his wife dies, but otherwise he is just a person trying to prepare his people from the oncoming war that will wipe them out if they do not improve their fighting to match these people that he fought alongside for a while. It has a little bit of mystical spirits that grant wishes to people and kill them or if you are lucky like our young hero, they constantly save his life and give him gifts for some purpose that we do not know at the moment. My only guess now is they need him to save their life from the invaders who will likely destroy them if they get control of the land.