A review by cimorene1558
The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay

4.0

I have been dissing this book for years, which now, having re-read it, I feel is not fair. No, I don't find it as fantastic as the rest of Kay's books, but it's by no means a bad book, in fact it's a very good one, it just doesn't have (for me) the emotional weight of the others. And it's not tragic in the way that some of the others are, perhaps because it's more about a beginning than an end (my two favourite history-based Kay works are The Lions of al-Rassan and the Sarantium Mosiac, which are definitely about endings). But the research and the writing are very well done, and by any lesser author, it would be a monumental achievement.