A review by bahoulie
The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay

5.0

This was one of the best fantasy novels I've ever read. Early on I was surprised by the number of similarities to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time - but then I discovered it was written well before WoT. And it's so much better. It's exciting and unusual and told with a bare minimum of words rather than detailing every last thing. Kay keeps the reader in ignorance when it will be useful to the story, but also assumes a brain on the part of the reader and therefore doesn't repeat himself. I loved this book.