abetterjulie 's review for:

The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay

2.0

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If you can wade through the mess of the first 100 pages, it does begin to improve. The writing is all over the place. Sometimes the dialogue and imagery are smooth and gather you into the story, but then he abruptly attempts to be Tolkien, and it falls apart again. The story kept me interested, but I had to make the decision to keep reading through many spots.