![]() ![]() Will not fit on a plane when you're strapped for space. Meaningless gripe: this book is still really expensive on Kindle, and my paperback copy is large (and it's long). It was more tragic than Lions of Al-Rassan, but one needs that sometimes. I loved the setup: instead of having one villain threatening to take over the known world, Kay has two, both sorcerers. It wasn’t just the prose that got me (although Kay’s phrasing is often gorgeous). ![]() You just want to revel in how tragic the characters are for a few hundred pages. Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana is the best-written fantasy I’ve read in a while. GGK's prose is as lovely as always, and I still appreciate the moral ambiguity of all the characters and their motivations. I may also be too influenced by modern takes on slavery, since this book is almost 30 years old now. I also still haven't resolved the slavery thing, I'll keep thinking on that for a while. Catriana comes the closest to having a reason to exist in the book besides her romantic relation to a man. Which is part of her character, but I didn't like it. ![]() ![]() That scene with Catriana in the beginning of the book tainted my view of her for the rest of the book, even though she never slept with anybody else. I hate it when you notice one thing and then can't divorce that judgment from the rest of the book.įor instance: all of the women are beautiful, all have a rather extended sex scene (maybe not Alais). ![]()
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