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peixinhodeprata 's review for:
The Summer Tree
by Guy Gavriel Kay
It was a page turner, and I found myself counting the minutes for the next break when I would have time to read again. The story grabs you almost from the beginning, and the descriptions are not too dense, so the action is always moving with relative speed, and keeps jumping from one person to the other, so you are always interested.
However, sometimes the names and the mythology are somehow unclear and I tended to get a bit lost and confused with the names of the characters.
Then we have the influences. We can see Tolkien in this book. We sense the elves (lios alfar) and the orcs (svart alfar), but the dwarfs, humans and mages are there for the taking. But there is also CS Lewis, a more sophisticated version with incantations instead of wardrobes. And if we look closer, we can also smell some GOT in there. It is difficult to be truly original when it comes to fantasy, despite the contradiction.
However, sometimes the names and the mythology are somehow unclear and I tended to get a bit lost and confused with the names of the characters.
Then we have the influences. We can see Tolkien in this book. We sense the elves (lios alfar) and the orcs (svart alfar), but the dwarfs, humans and mages are there for the taking. But there is also CS Lewis, a more sophisticated version with incantations instead of wardrobes. And if we look closer, we can also smell some GOT in there. It is difficult to be truly original when it comes to fantasy, despite the contradiction.