Kay may have learned a lot from reading Tolkien, but I fear he didn't learn the right things. I tried to re-read "Tigana" a few years ago and was shocked at how terribly overwritten and melodramatic it was. I really liked several of his early novels, but by Ged (not God I want to see whether you're paying attention.), nothing after "A Song for Arbonne" is readable, and even that, I suspect, I cannot ever re-read. And he hides information from me, in a really obvious way, and pulls the curtain away at the end! Abracadabra! See how cool I am, I have deceived you! The end of "Lions of al-Rassan" made me furious it was such cheap melodrama. His middle name should be Guy Adumbration Kay and not Gavriel.
People, dreams, a home.”In “Tigana” by Guy Gavriel KayKay’s got a thing for adumbration. He said, "That is mostly true, I suppose. She wished she knew a way to dispel that sorrow, and not only for tonight. His expression in the darkness was much too sad for a moment such as this. Or what is the meaning of the cycle of seasons and years?" She wiped her tears away and looked at him. Tolkien protege Kay's brilliant and complex portrayal of good and evil, high and low, will draw readers to this consuming epic. Gradually the scene is set for both conquerors to destroy each other and free a land. Meanwhile, at Brandin's court, Dianora, his favorite concubine and-unknown to anyone, another survivor of Tigana-struggles between her growing love for the often gentle tyrant and her desire for vengeance. At the center of these activities are Devin, a gifted young singer Catriana, a young woman pursued by suspicions of her family's guilt and Duke Sandre d'Astibar, a wily resistance leader thought dead. Years later, a small band of survivors, led by Alessan, last prince of Tigana's royal house, wages psychological warfare, planting seeds for the overthrow of the two tyrants. Brandin's younger son is slain in a battle with the principality of Tigana, which the grief-stricken sorcerer then destroys. Eight of the nine provinces of the Peninsula of the Palm, on a world with two moons, have fallen to the warrior sorcerers Brandin of Ygrath and Alberico of Barbadior.
Kay ( The Fionavar Tapestry ) brings to life a layered, pragmatic world of magic and difficult choices, where brutality and beauty coexist.
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