A review by hivequeen
The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay

1.0

Why do so many authors feel the need to spoil a perfectly good story with a rape scene? And the one in this book is especially bad, just warning anyone who might want to read it. Well... This story wouldn't have been perfectly good if there had been no rape scene, but still. While the plot was interesting, the way the author wrote it was incredibly hard to follow. Add to that the unbelievable characterization of the 5 main characters. There is no way they would adapt that quickly to a magical parallel universe, nor would they pick up the speech patterns of that world in less than a week. This story could have been so good, but it just wasn't.