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A review by timinbc
The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay
4.0
Not quite a good as some of his others, but still very good.
I was occasionally snatched away from being lost in his magical world by stylistic things.
First, Kay seems to be obsessed with the blood-eagle thing. It comes up over and over, far more than needed.
Second, and this is true of most fantasy, every arrow shot in the book seems to kill its target instantly. Every one of them can shoot individual peas out of a pod at 100 paces.
Third, while I have no problem with sentence fragments and the occasional "whole lives can turn on small moments like this" or "that turned out to be a bad decision", they seemed to come up too often -- even allowing for the comfortable feeling Kay gives that you're sitting around a fire with him and a few friends and he's telling you a story.
There are a LOT of characters, and a lot of plot threads, but by golly he ties them all together at the end with a flair, including a couple of "huh, didn't see THAT coming" to balance the more predictable outcomes that the plot demanded.
Still a very good book, and I'm ready for Children of Earth and Sky now.
I was occasionally snatched away from being lost in his magical world by stylistic things.
First, Kay seems to be obsessed with the blood-eagle thing. It comes up over and over, far more than needed.
Second, and this is true of most fantasy, every arrow shot in the book seems to kill its target instantly. Every one of them can shoot individual peas out of a pod at 100 paces.
Third, while I have no problem with sentence fragments and the occasional "whole lives can turn on small moments like this" or "that turned out to be a bad decision", they seemed to come up too often -- even allowing for the comfortable feeling Kay gives that you're sitting around a fire with him and a few friends and he's telling you a story.
There are a LOT of characters, and a lot of plot threads, but by golly he ties them all together at the end with a flair, including a couple of "huh, didn't see THAT coming" to balance the more predictable outcomes that the plot demanded.
Still a very good book, and I'm ready for Children of Earth and Sky now.