This is a stand-alone book, and thank goodness for a fantasy author who can tell a story in a single volume. The premise is wonderful - the Tigana of the title is a province which has been so comprehensively destroyed by its sorceror conqueror that even its name has been (magically) erased from the ...
I liked this book every bit as well as I remembered. It's as layered as an onion, complex, full of satisfying and memorable characters deployed in a world that's rich and believable.The magic is well-thought out. There are plot twists in plenty- as there should be when there's a dispossessed Prince ...
I first fell in love with Guy Gavriel Kay's work when I did an internet search for fantasy fiction that was a little different from the basic Western European medieval setting and found high praise for The Lions of Al-Rassan. I love the lyrical prose of his writing and the way he makes the reader fe...
I dearly love this book for many reasons people who loved it expressed already - beatiful writing, fascinating plot, amazingly greyish characters. What's not to love indeed?The main reason I am writing this comment is mostly express my puzzlement as to how many people are feeling sympathetic towards...
This is one of the most beautifully written fantasy books I've ever had the pleasure of reading and rereading. It reads more like a historical novel than a fantasy novel and I find it just so very lyrical. NOT your run of the mill fantasy novel at all.
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