by Guy Gavriel Kay
Hmm. I may return to this book, because I feel a nagging at the back of my mind for no reason I can see. I disliked all the characters and thought it was beyond boring, but there was just something there, you know? In a few reviews I saw that this was the authors worst book, so I may go find another...
Guy Gavriel Kay, along with George R. R. Martin, are perhaps the best living writers of epic fantasy, and "The Last Light of the Sun" is up to his usual standards. However, this does mean that one has to be in the mood to read epic fantasy to enjoy it.This is the sort of book where I think one's enj...
I got halfway through this novel and got distracted by something else. My love for Guy Gavriel Kay is almost limitless, but I realized that I couldn't figure out what was going on or where the story was going, so I stopped reading it. Perhaps another time.
This book is... interesting. I've never read anything quite like it before. The story is set in an alternate 9th century Earth and ties together the English, Welsh, and Vikings. After finishing it a week or two ago, I'm still not sure what to think, so I'll just list my impressions: The Good: 1. His...
I bought this book with a gift card that I received on graduating high school...five years ago, it took me this long to read it for reasons I cannot really explain. It sat on my shelf in the dorms, sharing space over the years with all of my text books and other "pleasure" reads that always more rea...
I have liked other books by Kay a lot, and I had high expectations for this one. It's a decent enough story, certainly well-written, but one that failed to hold my interest. I had a fair bit of difficulty telling one character from another, and I wasn't drawn in to the tale. I suspect it was more my...
Really excellent fantasy set in the medieval Europe . There’s a minor fantasy element (the fey), but the majority of the plot concerns the Vikings’ last raids on England. Exile Bern Thorkellson and his fellow mercenaries venture onto Anglcyn for plunder and glory, but waiting for them are the combin...
Devoted fans of Kay's books will already know that his work is, to all intents and purposes, historical fiction - it's just that the worlds he writes about never existed. In The Last Light of the Sun, the Erlings (read: Norsemen) are northern sea-raiders who prey on the coasts of the adjoining count...
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