klieber 's review for:

The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
1.0

I just could not get into this book and ended up giving up on it around the 40% mark. There are TOO many different names. Names of people, names of places, names of events. It makes it extremely difficult to keep track of pretty much anything. Also, by 40% of any book, I expect to see at least the basic foundation of a plot. This was just random people performing random activities with no seeming connection between them. Lastly, the whole idea that 5 kids will pick up and leave everything they know on essentially a whim is implausible at best.

If it was any one of these issues, I likely would have powered on and finished the book. As it stands, all three of them combined were just too much for me to get through.