A review by boreasword
The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay

3.0

Having read a couple of Kays' middle to late tenure books, this was a really rough start. It totally felt sophomoric, fumbly, and overwrought as Kay struggles to find his voice amid an ambitious weaving of Celtic, Norse, and even Abrahamic mythologies into Tolkienesque plot points. Peak 80's high fantasy. Not a favorite after reading the gorgeous prose of Tigana or Song of Arbonne. I'm going to see what the trilogy holds, even after a very triggering, glorified female character's torture in the last chapters.