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Summary: A Beautiful Story in a Beautiful Setting
Review: I love the Fionavar Tapestry. In these books Kay has woven a beautiful, complex story. The setting is Fionavar, a gorgeous and enchanted world filled with magic and history--a world which reminds me of Narnia or Middle Earth. The story is filled with strong, compelling characters, both male and female, who sometimes have to make difficult choices. At times the story is sad but Kay's writing is so graceful that I enjoyed even the sad parts.The Longest Road, the last book in the trilogy, was for the me the most emotional and heartbreaking. I cried many times before reaching the end, but Kay's story is never bitter, only bittersweet. And within it there also lies true joy for some characters. The closing chapters of this story are magnificent in scope and feeling, and when I turned the last page I felt satisfied. I would highly recommend The Fionavar Tapestry to anyone who enjoys epic fantasy with powerful magic and attractive settings.
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Summary: Great ending to an excellent series
Review: I must have reread this book at least a dozen times since buying it. Kay has avoided a "happily ever after" ending (in my opinion, anyway) with a bittersweet and utterly surprising finish. He shows that he is not afraid to kill off major sympathetic characters, and all the events seem very real.
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Summary: I read this in junior high.
Review: I read this book in junior high and though I loved it then, thinking back upon it I find it fairly simple, yet a step above most sci-fi fantasy creations. It aspires to the heights of Tolkein, but doesn't quite reach. Still, it is a fun read and interseting effort.
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Summary: Overly dramatic, poorly done
Review: I thought this was a series about the legend of Arthur - but it's really much more. A complex story of love, hate, war that goes beyond the mortal realm to pit ultimate good and evil together; more about the characters search for their places in the worlds they live in - and how they discover themsleves and much more. It all comes together here!
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Summary: Arthurian Trilogy plus
Review: I thought this was a series about the legend of Arthur - but it's really much more. A complex story of love, hate, war that goes beyond the mortal realm to pit ultimate good and evil together; more about the characters search for their places in the worlds they live in - and how they discover themsleves and much more. It all comes together here!
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Summary: WOW!!!!
Review: I was very impressed with the style and the general magnitude of feelings this book can envoke. I have read some of the greats but this has surpassed all. I can only wish that those who have never read any fantasy to pick this whole series up and just give them a shot, I know you won't be disapointed.
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Summary: Cliche city with a hollywood ending
Review: I will avoid spoilers because I hate seeing them in reviews, but this was a pretty lousy series, mostly due to the author's need to hit every fantasy cliche out there, and then wrap it all up in a nice little package with every little conflict getting resolved. It's almost as if he gave it to an eight year old kid to read before he published it, and then went back to answer all of the kid's questions. (What happened to him? What happened to her? Did they live happily ever after?)
Kay's later works are MUCH better, and I don't think this series is worth your time unless you're REALLY hard up for something to read.
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Summary: Overly dramatic, poorly done
Review: I'm a big fan of fantasy, and a friend recommended this series to me. I read the entire Fionavar Tapestry on vacation when I had no access to any other books. While the premise was initially intriguing, the author's writing abilities severely hampered any empathy you had for the protagonists' struggles. He incessantly reminded you that the characters were burdened with a personal, unspeakable grief so terrible that I was amazed any of them were able to get out of bed each morning. I'd only recommend this if you were had plenty of time on your hands and no other reading material available.
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Summary: Derivative fantasy
Review: I've loved Guy Gavriel Kay's other books, especially Tigana and A Song for Arbonne. But I didn't read them right away, because I had read this earlier, very derivative fantasy and thought the others would be the same. Not much more to say. Read Joy Chant's far more evocative Red Moon, Black Mountain, published some years before the Fionavar Tapestry. Chant covers much the same ground as Kay, albeit in a single volume with no elves, dwarves or contrived Arthurian references.
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Summary: Better than expected, but...
Review: In this third and final volume of the Fionavar Tapestry (started with The Summer Tree and The Wandering Fire), the various armies are slowly marching northwards to meet and confront Rakoth Maugrim the Unraveller, encountering numerous enemies sent to slow them down. And Darien the andain, son of Jennifer and Rakoth, is therefore torn by the terrible choice he has to make between Light and Dark. Deperately searching for someone to love and understand him but feared by all because of who he is, abandoned by Finn his foster brother, ignored and rejected by his mother and her friends who don't want to interfere in his choice, he's flying in the shape of an owl to Starkadh, to bring the sacred blade Lökdal to his father, in hope of his welcome. In the mountains, Matt Sören, resurrected by Lancelot's powers but no longer Loren Silvercloak the mage's source, goes back to Calor Diman where he belongs, to reclaim his throne as King of the Dwarfs from the hands of Kaen the traitor. He'll have to challenge him according to the rules of the Dwarfmoot. I found this last volume much more entertaining than the previous one, even though I think Kay tried to include too many fantasy themes in one series and ended up with a messy plot that made it hard to believe. I was also a bit disappointed by how fast the story was resolved. Finally, not knowing Arthur's legend, I'm also sure I missed a lot of interesting references, but then I've only got myself to blame...
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