A review by banjax451
Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 Was this my favorite book by GGK (certainly in my top 5 favorite authors)? Probably not. For about the first third of the book I was struggling to come to any sort of conclusion as to what the theme(s) of the novel were. About midway through, it picked up and by the end I was very satisfied. In a lot of ways, this is the true sequel to the Sarantine Mosaic novels - while there are other GGK novels that are set in this same "our world, turned a quarter to the fantastic" shared universe, neither Children nor Lions deal directly with the events of the Sarantine novels. It isn't a true sequel - we're 800 years in the future - but the events of those books (and their settings) have direct impacts upon the events here. And that, in a nutshell, is (I think) what GGK is talking about here. How the smallest and most random of events can change the destiny of people one has never met.

What elevates GGK is the prose. His prose is so fantastic - borderline poetic at times - that I'm willing to forgive whatever faults I might find here and there. He is truly a wonderful writer and I will always look forward to what's next (only 2 of his books left to go!).