This was not my favorite book by Kay but I still liked it a lot. The period and events described are difficult, the characters not always satisying, not always heroic, not always historically romantic and admirable, and the ending ambiguous, though clear enough for me. I imagine that made it much...
Πρώτη μου επαφή με το έργο του Γκάι Γκάβριελ Κέι και μπορώ να πω ότι έμεινα, σε γενικές γραμμές, ευχαριστημένος. Θα μου πείτε γιατί έπιασα πρώτο το Ύζαμπελ, που πολλοί θεωρούν ως το πιο αδύναμο του συγγραφέα. Πρώτα-πρώτα το βρήκα φτηνά το Σάββατο στο bazaar των εκδόσεων Anubis. Δεύτερον είναι το ...
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.The Last Light of the Sun is another of Guy Gavriel Kay’s brilliant historical fantasies. This one blends Norse, Celtic, and Anglo-Saxon histories with a bit of faerie mythos. We follow a few main characters from each of these societies as they interact wit...
Review: 11th July 2009I've reviewed A Song for Arbonne before, but it was hardly adequate, and I need to review it again for it to count for my "read my own height in books" challenge, and I've come to like it so very much more since the first time I read it.As I pointed out before, I'm aware tha...
(This will serve as my review of the entire Fionovar Tapestry- Spoiler pearl clutchers beware- there be dragons of plot and theme reveals here!)Confession: I am a bit of a Requiem fanatic- I own several versions of the Verdi, the Mozart, the Brahms, and copies of the Cherubini, Berlioz, Dvorak, a...
SPOILERS AHEAD, SO MANY SPOILERSThe concluding volume of Fionavar Tapestry is a perfect fantasy novel. Happily stripped of the awkward, stilted ‘real world’ situations and dialogue that occasionally marred the preceding novels, The Darkest Road takes place entirely in Fionavar and is all the stro...
The Wandering Fire, by Guy Gavriel Kay, second book in the Fionavar series, takes us back to a land of myth and mystery, heroes and villains, magic and wonder – yes, we're back in Canada!Those who liked the first book will not find any surprises here, at least not on the surface of things. Kay's ...
oh Tigana! 20 years ago, the warring lands of the peninsula known as The Palm were invaded and conquered by two opposing Tyrants, and split into two. during this time of war and magic, one land was punished, transformed, forgotten. 20 years later, a band of men and women fight to reclaim that lan...
http://www.fantasyliterature.com/revi...Lord of Emperors is the second (and final) novel in Guy Gavriel Kay’s THE SARANTINE MOSAIC duology. The story, set in a pseudo-Byzantine Empire, mostly centers on Crispin, a mosaicist from a neighboring kingdom who’s been commissioned to decorate the ceilin...
I would like to have been in the room when Guy Gavriel Kay pitched this story to his publishers: “It’s a historical fantasy novel based on the Byzantine Empire and the works of W.B. Yeats. The main character is an artist caught up in political schemes during a tumultuous time.”“Uh….The Byzantine...
This book has come highly recommended by almost all of my friends, and so naturally, I was very excited to read it. This was my first experience with Kay, and the consensus seems to be that this is his best work. Certainly the Goodreads average rating bears that up. Lions of Al-Rassan currently h...