A review by alwright1
The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay

3.0

I had a hard time getting into this one at first. The 5 modern-day, Canadian college students were barely introduced and were never really fleshed out as individuals, so I had a hard time caring about how they reacted to the fantasy world into which they are transported (which seems to be no big deal to them somehow). However, the situation in the fantasy world gets exciting pretty quickly and introduces a fairly interesting set of characters. I ended up really enjoying the middle part of the book which takes place in a nomadic tribal area. I am also pretty curious about what will happen next and the outcome of the great war that is brewing at the end of the book, but the author chose to end the book with a brutal rape scene, which doesn't exactly make me want to hurry on to the next. If I come across the next book, I still might pick it up, but probably not if I have something else I'm looking forward to.