A review by hmrogers
The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay

1.0

I’m quite glad I discovered Kay through Tigana (which I adored) instead of through The Summer Tree, his earliest work. I likely wouldn’t have been interested in any book bearing his name after the first installment in this series. The characters are flat, the dialogue stilted, the plot haphazard, and the world feels unfinished at the edges. Read if you’re interested in observing exactly how far the author had to come to mature his awkwardly flowery prose into its later graceful effervescence.