Tigana

4.5/5 Stars I have this belief that 90% of the time, standalone high fantasy just won’t satisfy me. I still stand by it, but Tigana luckily is not one of those cases. Memories and names, something that breathes life into the people and possessions we lost. Both of these can be summed up as the fabric......more

Beautiful prose, but the story falls incredibly flat I really wanted to like this book as I've had a lot of people I trust tell me that both this book, and Guy Gavriel Kay as a writer are incredible. Unfortunately, it's just clearly not written for my tastes. I'm a fantasy fan, and I like an epic stor......more

Imagine a state that ceased to exist. It has been swallowed on the map by hungry neighbours, swept away by winds of history and not even an empty space remains to bear witness to what once was. Things like that have happened before. Take Poland, partitioned by her three neighbours and for 123 years......more

oh Tigana! 20 years ago, the warring lands of the peninsula known as The Palm were invaded and conquered by two opposing Tyrants, and split into two. during this time of war and magic, one land was punished, transformed, forgotten. 20 years later, a band of men and women fight to reclaim that land,......more

Tigana was one of the few remaining popular high fantasies on my tbr list that I haven’t read yet. I was glad when it was picked as the book of the month in my book club because I never got around to reading it. I wanted to buy the physical copy (I rarely do). It’s a good thing that I’ve only borrow......more