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A review by melledotca
Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay
3.0
Enjoyable enough, but his stuff is starting to feel a bit dated. Like a series you read as a teenager that wasn't quite... it when you went back years later.
Part of that is because his schtick of history twisted a bit into fantasy has since been picked up by a lot of other authors, even though Kay's been doing it for decades.
And the pretty solidly all 'round happy ending thing really isn't... fashionable (?) anymore. Not that everyone has to die (OHAI, George R.R. Martin), but more complicated and less warm and fuzzy has become more the norm and unrealistically happy has become almost eye-rolling. (I read an interesting piece that connected that change in certain genres at least being due to the ascendance of women writers, who tend to write less perky and toss hero notions out the window.)
Part of that is because his schtick of history twisted a bit into fantasy has since been picked up by a lot of other authors, even though Kay's been doing it for decades.
And the pretty solidly all 'round happy ending thing really isn't... fashionable (?) anymore. Not that everyone has to die (OHAI, George R.R. Martin), but more complicated and less warm and fuzzy has become more the norm and unrealistically happy has become almost eye-rolling. (I read an interesting piece that connected that change in certain genres at least being due to the ascendance of women writers, who tend to write less perky and toss hero notions out the window.)