Guy Gavriel Kay

By Pam Phillips Last year, when I read Ysabel, I remarked that Guy Gavriel Kay looked like the sort of writer I would like, and that largely turned out to be true. And now I’m noticing that I never got around to talking about his books that I do like. The first of his books to break away from Fionavar was Tigana.

Stilgar from “Dune” by Frank Herbert Jehane, Rodrigo, and Ammar from “The Lions of Al-Rassan” by Guy Gavriel Kay Blaise from “A Song for Arbonne” by Guy Gavriel Kay Pete Armstrong from “The Truth Machine” by James L. Halperin ...

Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay Lord of Emperors (Sarantine Mosaic, Book 2) Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay · My review. rating: 4 of 5 stars I rather enjoyed the Sarantine Mosaic. It offered a very rich tapestry in story line ...

By chocolate in the fruit bowl The Lions of Al-Rassan, by Guy Gavriel Kay This was a little overlong, but enjoyably exciting and heart-wrenching in turns. Kay does a good job on Tragic Romances where people nevertheless practically grab for what happiness they can ...

By Jeffrey Overstreet The Gormenghast Novels - Mervyn Peake; The Book of Atrix Wolf - Patricia McKillip; Dune - Frank Herbert; The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell; Momo - Michael Ende; Sailing to Sarantium, and the sequel Lord of Emperors - Guy Gavriel Kay ...

By kalen Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay Why it's on this list Lyrically beautiful, astonishingly poignant, this is matchless fantasy in a totally original setting. I believe it's Kay's best work, but it's also a great introduction to the author's ...

Anne Lamott writes understandingly, in a way that will make you smile wryly and -- in places -- probably make you want to cry. It may not teach you anything beyond it's okay, and you might find that even that you know, but her writing is lovely and worth reading anyway. I've never read any of her n...

By Shara Saunsaucie The Summer Tree (The Fionavar Tapestry: Book One) Writer: Guy Gavriel Kay Genre: Epic Fantasy Pages: 383 The premise: Five college students--Kim, Dave, Kevin, Jennifer, and Paul are approached by a mysterious stranger and a dwarf with a ...

Glimpses by Lewis Shiner - 3.4 Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide by Babcock and Laschever - 4.2 Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay - 3.75 Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay - 3.75 Points on BCDC scale. ...

The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay (The Fionavar Tapestry Bk 1) The Wandering Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay (The Fionavar Tapestry Bk 2) The Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay (The Fionavar Tapestry Bk 3) ...

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By davidbcoe I finished reading Guy Gavriel Kay’s Ysabel just now.  I have been a fan of Kay’s books for two decades and while I haven’t read everything he’s written, I’ve read a lot of it.  For years I’ve been telling people that Tigana is the finest fantasy novel I’ve ever read (a difficult admission for s...

By davidbcoe I’m currently reading Ysabel, by Guy Gavriel Kay. Kay is one of my favorite authors, and Ysabel may be his finest work yet. One aspect of the story that makes it so effective is the constant tension between ancient and modern, past and present. The story itself is an anachronism in its moder...

By stevent The Lions of al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay. Paperback: 528 pages Publisher: Eos (June 2005) Average Customer Review on Amazon: 4.5 stars (108 Reviews). Editorial Review from Publishers Weekly:. Canadian attorney Kay has eschewed the ...

By nefnegawuc Guy Gavriel Kay - Scholarship: Songs in the Blood: The Discourse of ... Authorized website on Guy Gavriel Kay. Interviews, reviews, bibliographies, extracts, scholarship, news, art, and music on The Fionavar Tapestry, Tigana, ...

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By Angi Sullins Oriah: What We Ache For: Creativity and the Unfolding of Your Soul · Guy Gavriel Kay: The Summer Tree (The Fionavar Tapestry, Book 1) · Guy Gavriel Kay: The Summer Tree (The Fionavar Tapestry, Book 1) · John Crowley: Little, Big ...

By T-FLY actually im giving this book a head start by releasing it to a friend who will send it into the wild after reading it- he'll leave it near the bananas at the Pavillions in Hookipa on Maui- wherever in the world that is. Enjoy!

I raced through this and right on to the second book. I'm glad this story is stretched out over two books: it gives Kay time to build something magical. I loved the second book, too. Guy Gavriel Kay doesn't handle his readers gently, still, but I wasn't expecting that. My heart was really in my mou...

I expected to love The Lions of Al-Rassan. After all, it's Guy Gavriel Kay, and my mother wept for hours over the ending. I have to say I didn't cry, but I came close. I'm not sure I agree with the people who say this is his best book, but it's certainly a good one and I'm very likely to come back to it, a...

I expected to love The Lions of Al-Rassan. After all, it's Guy Gavriel Kay, and my mother wept for hours over the ending. I have to say I didn't cry, but I came close. I'm not sure I agree with the people who say this is his best book, but it's certainly a good one and I'm very likely to come back to it, a...

By Summer Brooks Commentary: Ysabel is my first Guy Gavriel Kay book. He’s one of those authors that I’ve always heard about. Maybe it’s the memorable name, I don’t know. But he was always just kind of out there as one of those authors that I knew I was ...

I'm aware that this book supposedly has connections to real history, but I read it as pure fantasy, and loved it as such. Guy Gavriel Kay is rapidly becoming one of my favourite fantasy writers. I love the way he can pack so much into just one book -- I felt as if as much was going on here as in the thr...

I'm aware that this book supposedly has connections to real history, but I read it as pure fantasy, and loved it as such. Guy Gavriel Kay is rapidly becoming one of my favourite fantasy writers. I love the way he can pack so much into just one book -- I felt as if as much was going on here as in the thr...

The very last paragraph makes me want to kill Guy Gavriel Kay. The impact was somewhat spoilt by my mum spoilering me beforehand, but... on the other hand, knowing it was coming hurt more, too. I loved the little references to Fionavar, too.

By will shetterly You can start with any of Emma’s work. It’s all great. What a great list! They did an outstanding job! Every single nominee is a masterpiece, fully deserving— Oh, hey! Emma and I are nominated, too! The nominees for novel: Territory, Emma Bull [Tor]Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay [Viking Canada/Pe...

By Superfast Reader Synopsis: Tigana is a country that has been obliterated by magic, down to its very name, yet a small group of rebels who remember decide to spark civil war to reclaim the honor of their homeland. Review: ...

By Matt Warped Passages by Lisa Randall (rating: 7.0); All That Matters by Wayson Choy (rating: 8.5); Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay (rating: 7.0); 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill (rating: 7.5); Bright of the Sky by Kay Kenyon (rating: 8.0) ...

By fyreflybooks Genre: Fantasy The writing, though.... Oh, the writing! Kay's a phenomenal writer, of fantasy and of literature and of fantastic literature, able to conjure mature, complex, multi-layered characters, intricate plots, and vivid environments with an elegance that's difficult to descri...

By fyreflybooks Genre: Fantasy The writing, though.... Oh, the writing! Kay's a phenomenal writer, of fantasy and of literature and of fantastic literature, able to conjure mature, complex, multi-layered characters, intricate plots, and vivid environments with an elegance that's difficult to descri...

By fyreflybooks Genre: Historical Fantasy Review: Sailing to Sarantium falls about in the middle of pack of Guy Gavriel Kay's work that I've read so far, although I'm reserving final judgment until I read the sequel, Lord of Emperors. It's clear that he's setting up quite a lot of elements in the first book...

By fyreflybooks Genre: Historical Fantasy Review: Sailing to Sarantium falls about in the middle of pack of Guy Gavriel Kay's work that I've read so far, although I'm reserving final judgment until I read the sequel, Lord of Emperors. It's clear that he's setting up quite a lot of elements in the first book...

By Richard Marcus Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay has always impressed me with his ability to evoke whatever atmosphere he desires in an apparently effortless fashion. He is equally adroit at bringing to life sumptuous scenes in royal courts as he is the ...

By George Eberhart Guy Gavriel Kay, The Last Light of the Sun (2004) and Sailing to Sarantium (1998). I have gotten back into reading fantasy and science fiction, so I am totally engrossed in reading Kay. 2. Dan Simmons, The Crook Factory (1999). ...

By Pam Phillips Whatever. If you like this, and it’s your first by Guy Gavriel Kay, then congratulations. His other books are all better than this. Tomorrow: A great book from 2007! I started reading Guy Gavriel Kay because I had the feeling I was supposed to like him. The Fionavar

By Mike The Darkest Road (The Fionavar Tapestry, Book 3) by Guy Gavriel Kay. 52 Books In 52 Weeks: #8 of 52. book-fionavar-darkestroad.jpg Well, there it is. I have successfully concluded reading the third part of Guy Gavriel Kay’s Fionavar ...

By Lindsay York Levack A collection of recent book reviews: From Darque Reviews: House of Cards by C.E. Murphy Demons are a Ghoul’s Best Friend by Victoria Laurie Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay From Dear Author: The Accidental Werewolf by Dakota Cassidy The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray From Mrs Giggles:

By William Lexner James Rigney (as Robert Jordan) shaped Epic Fantasy in his own way just as much as J.R.R. Tolkien. That's right, I said it. Get over it. His impact is seen on the bookshelves of every bookstore that stocks fantasy in the world. With apologies to Marvel, let's do a little 'What If?' shall we?

An mp3 audio interview with author Guy Gavriel Kay at The Writer's Cafe about The Last Light of the Sun: a novel

By Becky For example, his book A Song for Arbonne is really a tale of medieval Provence, complete with troubadours and courtly love. The Last Light of the Sun is set in an alternate 9th century Britain, with Erling warriors standing in for ...

I have since read Kay's alternate-history novels— Tigana (1990), A Song for Arbonne (1992), The Lions of Al-Rassan (1995), The Sarantine Mosaic ( Sailing to Sarantium , 1998; Lord of Emperors , 2000) and The Last Light of the Sun ...

By limyaael@livejournal.com Guy Gavriel Kay, Ysabel As with the ending of The Last Light of the Sun, the ending of Ysabel felt like there were threads in place I didn’t understand, or threads I hadn’t noticed until then, or ones I’d missed because I read too fast, or—and I don’t want to think this—Kay was relying just a bi...

By Peter Konieczny Having gained a loyal readership and critical applause with his series of quasi-historical fantasies, Guy Gavriel Kay, author of "Tigana" and "The Lions of Al-Rassan," now delivers a contemporary tale steeped in the mythology of ...

By limyaael@livejournal.com All of these have various points in their favor, and if one isn’t to your taste and you want to write a domestic fantasy, another might be. I think there should be more of this kind of writing, if only because it would vary the deeper parts of fantasy novels—plot structure and pacing, for examp...

Reviewers are saying wonderful things about this book -- and they are right. His writing, as always, is luminous -- in fact, the prologue is a poem told in prose, a love letter to Provence and its light and the depth of its past, only lightly covered by its present and by what we like to think of a...

By Richard Marcus The innocuous, everyday occurrence of two awkwardly cool teenagers of the opposite sex meeting for the first time is the unlikely herald for subsequent events, but in the world of Guy Gavriel Kay's newest novel Ysabel, nothing can be ...

By limyaael@livejournal.com The Lions of Al-Rassan, by Guy Gavriel Kay- heroine is a physician (suggested by stillsostrange). The Sarantine Mosaic, by Guy Gavriel Kay- protagonist/part central focus of the story is a mosaicist. Another is a physician, and several race chariots (thanks to dawnshadow for the remind...

By gypsyman The three books of the Fionavar Tapestry cycle (The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, and The Darkest Road) were first published in the mid-1980s, and then gathered together in an omnibus form by HarperCollins in 1995. ...

By Chad Orzel by Guy Gavriel Kay. The latest pseudo-historical fantasy from the author of Tigana, A Song For Arbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan, and the Sarantine Mosaic (Kate has nice reviews of these: Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors).Unfortunately, I have to agree with the first sentence of Mi...

By Chad Orzel by Guy Gavriel Kay. The latest pseudo-historical fantasy from the author of Tigana, A Song For Arbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan, and the Sarantine Mosaic (Kate has nice reviews of these: Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors).Unfortunately, I have to agree with the first sentence of Mi...