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ferrisscottr 's review for:
The Summer Tree
by Guy Gavriel Kay
{Background: I read this 30 years ago and for some reason never made it through the 3rd book in the series so I'm re-reading the first two so I can finish the trilogy}
Let's take five kids from college in N. America and transport them to a fantasy world by a wizard and a dwarf, let's put them in the middle of torture, cruxifiction, rape and see how much they like living in a fantasy world.
So this is a flawed book. A great writer who was not yet a great novelist when he wrote this book. Lots of flowery prose and great world building but hasn't quite figured out how to capture the reader. I'll give it 4 stars and I'm rounding up because I think it is honorable to reach for the stars even if it's obvious you're not quite there yet and can't quite touch the stars. Does that make sense? I would rather have an author try to write the greatest fantasy series ever and fail then to never try.
So....4 stars it is and moving on to the next in the series.
Let's take five kids from college in N. America and transport them to a fantasy world by a wizard and a dwarf, let's put them in the middle of torture, cruxifiction, rape and see how much they like living in a fantasy world.
So this is a flawed book. A great writer who was not yet a great novelist when he wrote this book. Lots of flowery prose and great world building but hasn't quite figured out how to capture the reader. I'll give it 4 stars and I'm rounding up because I think it is honorable to reach for the stars even if it's obvious you're not quite there yet and can't quite touch the stars. Does that make sense? I would rather have an author try to write the greatest fantasy series ever and fail then to never try.
So....4 stars it is and moving on to the next in the series.