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by Guy Gavriel Kay
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Melody Murray's Books
Melody Murray's Books rated it 13 years ago
I enjoyed Tigana so much, it made sense for me to dip into Kay's back catalog. I may have gone too far back. This book was really, really busy what with the 12 intersecting plot lines, the 27 classes of people, the 14 gods (numbers approximate, but overwhelming) and the odd shape-changer. The langua...
target acquired
target acquired rated it 14 years ago
this is a wonderful novel. it is hard to love at first. sometimes you get to know people who seem automatically awkward, whose social style is stilted, composed of quotes from movies or off-putting attempts to be clever, insisting on repeating tired tales, who seem eager to please yet incapable of e...
FriedEgg
FriedEgg rated it 14 years ago
I never finished it. Something about it really didn't go down well with me but maybe I'll give this another go one day.
All the Time in the World
All the Time in the World rated it 34 years ago
On first starting "The Summer Tree", I thought, "Great. Another Tolkien 'inspired' writer. Wizards, elves, dwarves, a horse culture, wolf-like baddies, goblin-like baddies, and a Big Evil entombed under a mountain: can we say 'derivative'?" And that's about as far as I got with the bad-mouthing. ...
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