A review by nigellicus
All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay

adventurous emotional tense

5.0

It feels almost unfair to get Simon Vance to read a Guy Gavriel Kay book, elevating as it does the magnificent to the sublime. Returning yet again to his slightly-alternate pre-Renaissance world, this is the story of a merchant/corsair and his female partner, an ex-slave trained as a bodyguard, and the forces unleashed when they carry out an assassination culminating in an attack on another city as revenge for the fall of Sarantium years before. Kay does his usual weaving of stories that criss-cross the main narrative, tracing the effects of the actions of the main characters on the lives of people affected, for better or for worse, but the tapestry conceals a finely trained bow that send unerring arrows of bittersweet heartbreak to strike home nore often than seems reasonable even in a very good book like this.