Ysabel in Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library

Feb 09, 2009 Thomas Zimmerman rated it it was ok

Shelves: fantasy

Disappointing. Protagonist has lame taste in music- I would have prefered if the author just wrote: 'he put on his mp3 player and started running.' Characters from the Fionavar Tapestry show up, then do next to nothing. I Listened to this as an audio book. The woman narrating it made the teenage characters more annoying than if I had read the book.
Maybe I'm overly venomous because Kay does this weird thing about half way through the story where he just drops the charcter Kate from the plot. She ...more

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Jun 23, 2013 Liz rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, 21st-century, ya

As is usual for anything by Kay, an extraordinary amount of research has gone into this book and it pays off in the richness of story and detail on every page. Unusually for him, it is not a historical fantasy, set in a land that bears striking resemblance to, without being, a medieval country in our own world.
But as a completely different story, this one works quite well and, though it lacks the breadth of his other masterpieces, makes up for it in it's tight focus on character. A very good rea ...more

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Sep 26, 2010 Phil rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I was blown away, as expected. Some interesting back-connections all the way to Fionavar, but nothing that I thought would overly confuse a complete novice (I haven't read TFT in years, and I had no trouble).

One question though: who is the girl on the cover? ...more

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