The Well-Favored Man by Elizabeth Willey

Oct 25, 2007 20:21

This is one of those fantasies from the 90s that looks at all the rules and tosses them out the window.  Set in a land called Argylle, the book focuses on Gwydion, the current head of a family of flighty, brilliant, and possibly hedonistic immortals who rulethe city, and have for ages and ages.  Gwydion has been in the position of family head for a ( Read more... )

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meganbmoore October 26 2007, 02:23:33 UTC
I went to the used bookstore and got the other 2 yesterday. This book wasn't so much story as it was worldbuilding, which is what made me like it, but I expect the other 2 to be more story.

Have you read her story about the title? Apparently, whn she started writing, it was going to be a very different kind of book, but it evolved into something the title didn't suit anymore, but the publisher liked the title, so it ended upwith a titlethat didn't suit it, but a cover that did(the reverse of the usual)

Dunno when i'll get to the other books, though.

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