A review by octavia_cade
The Sarantine Mosaic by Guy Gavriel Kay

4.0

I read and reviewed the two volumes contained here separately, so this is essentially just for my own records. The star rating is really 3.5, rounded up to 4 - it's the average of the 3 stars I gave Sailing to Sarantium and the 4 I gave to Lord of Emperors. In a nutshell, I enjoyed the imagery and the placing of an artist at the centre of an epic fantasy narrative, and was less impressed with the dodgy way the first book perceived its women characters - though this improved markedly in the second volume (hence its higher rating).