kajury 's review for:

The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
4.0

Many years ago, I read "Sailing to Sarantium" by this author and remember being very angry - 2 moons in the sky does not make a book Science Fiction, I said. To be honest, I don't remember much about the book now. I decided to give the author another chance with a different book, this one. I am blown away. The atmosphere created in this book has far exceeded any expectations I might have had. To say it took my breath away, literally, is not an exaggeration. I will begin the second book in the series today and look forward to reading many more books by this author. I have since read that the author himself likes to shy away from genre classification and I believe this is a wise choice. His writing is amazing, but can be misinterpreted by those looking for a specific genre and feeling cheated when they don't get what they are looking for.