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georgiewhoissarahdrew 's review for:
The Summer Tree
by Guy Gavriel Kay
What I like in an author is a really distinctive "voice" - such that you'd know from just a sentence or two who the author was. And GGK has certainly got that, with a range of tones from "high faerie" to "campus chat", often brutally juxtaposed.
But the flip side of a distinctive voice is that one can love it or loathe it - a "Marmite" voice. And while I can quite understand why GGK has so many devoted followers, unfortunately I found his style jarring. "High Faerie" works as long as no one wonders how these great characters get dressed, whether they scratch when they itch etc. But the sliding into modern day speech has the same effect (for me) of looking behind the curtain and finding the real Wizard of Oz.
But the flip side of a distinctive voice is that one can love it or loathe it - a "Marmite" voice. And while I can quite understand why GGK has so many devoted followers, unfortunately I found his style jarring. "High Faerie" works as long as no one wonders how these great characters get dressed, whether they scratch when they itch etc. But the sliding into modern day speech has the same effect (for me) of looking behind the curtain and finding the real Wizard of Oz.