by Guy Gavriel Kay
Sailing to ByzantiumThat is no country for old men. The youngIn one another’s arms, birds in the trees– Those dying generations – at their song,The salmon‐falls, the mackerel‐crowded seas,Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer longWhatever is begotten, born, and dies.Caught in that sensual music a...
Guy Gavriel Kay excels at writing those moments when the world stops, the characters hold their breath, and I do too. Those moments when powers beyond comprehension are right in front of you (worldly or supernatural), and no one knows what the outcome will be, where everything hangs on a knife's edg...
I hadn't expected this to be so incomplete. I knew it was part of a series, but I expected some closure, some logical end-point. I really feel as if I've just read half a book.The prologue was unbearable. I would've given up on the book completely if my husband hadn't already read it and assured me ...
I have a love-hate relationship with Kay’s work: loved Tigana, really liked Song for Arbonne, put Lions of Al-Rassan down in disgust halfway through. (Last Light of the Sun is the only one I’ve been ambivalent about so far.) Maybe this book is too similar to Lions for me--and most people seem to lov...
See my review of the mass market paperback read in June 2010. I purchased this trade paperback for my permanent collection. Very highly recommended.
4 stars
In Guy Gavriel Kay's Trakesia, "...[t]o say of a man that he was sailing to Sarantium was to say that his life was on the cusp of change: poised for emergent greatness, brilliance, fortune -- or else at the very precipice of a final and absolute fall as he met something too vast for his capacity." ...
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