First, a link to my love post for The Fionavar Tapestry on
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The final book of the Fionavar Tapestry is, unsurprisingly, the longest. After the long build up of the first two books, the war finally really gets underway. It's still very Lord of the Rings, with all the races joining up and wars and a lone person making his way into the heart of darkness, etc. In another way, it's completely not like Lord of ( Read more... )

The second book of the Fionavar Tapestry feels by far the shortest, to me. That isn't to say not much happens -- a lot does happen, so much that it makes my head spin a little, but it feels quite short. Possibly because my copy is both slim and has bigger writing than the other books, which are both thicker and have tiny writing. Anyway ( Read more... )

I've posted a general review of the Fionavar Tapestry trilogy before, here, but I never felt that quite cut it. So this a review of the first book, The Summer Tree, and separate reviews of the rest of the trilogy will follow. It's worth looking at my overview of the trilogy, too, because I'm not going to repeat all of it, necessarily ( Read more... )

I loved Ysabel. It's a semi-sequel to the Fionavar Tapestry trilogy, though it only involves two of the characters from that, and those much older than they were. The little glimpses you get of how their lives have gone are believable, and interesting, and just about right, I think, for a book that isn't really about either of them. The main ( Read more... )

For bottle_of_shine's cat herding challenge, which, misleadingly, involves no cats. It actually involves books. And you can read more about it here. The basic idea starts with listing ten books you love. I've decided to list trilogies and the like as a single book, otherwise my list would get swallowed up by about two authors! But I'd say that reading and ( Read more... )

I just finished reading the Fionavar Tapestry trilogy, by Guy Gavriel Kay. the_reader, I think, introduced the books to me an age ago with some commentary on how the female characters were Mary Sues and the books terribly like a "got sucked into a book" fanfic and derivative, and yet it works.

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Time for some more recs, since I have plenty saved in my del.icio.us account. xD As ever, if we talk on IM often, share the same general flist content, or you watch my del.icio.us, you've seen all these before. Check the tags to see what fandoms/pairings I've recced this time. :D

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