The Wandering Fire

It is a truth universally acknowledged that while not all who wander are lost, those who mashup the Lord of the Rings with the Arthurian Legend, wander into their impending doom. As you know for me The Summer Tree went promptly beyond fantastic and straight into the epic category. My initial awe was......more

the second book in the Fionavar Tapestry is not quite as impressive as the first, but hey it's still pretty damn good. two things in particular stick out for me: Sex. i love how this novel places sexuality at the center of much of its magic, both implicitly and explicitly. it is really refreshing. an......more

I've been falling into and out of this book in almost precisely the same way I had in the first. I love the short lyrical descriptions, I enjoy the mythic references, and I especially love how each character eventually gets woven into each of the underlying story structures. There is a great deal to......more

Having just re-read The Summer Tree, the first book in the Fionavar Tapestry, I jumped straight into this one and enjoyed it almost as much as I did when I first read it in the 1980's when it was first published. One of the features of the series that still resonates with me is the way that each book......more

A good sequel, although not as good as the first book in the trilogy. It suffers from a slight case of second-book syndrome, there is not the same sense of wonder as in The Summer Tree, and I did not enjoy the introduction of the legendary characters at all. However, it's Guy Gavriel Kay. It's still......more