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A review by hilmi
Tigana: Anniversary Edition by Guy Gavriel Kay
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
This is a wonderful book. One of the best standalone fantasy stories I've ever read and I'm voracious.
Wonderfully written. So poetic; I underlined many sentences. Also I great meditation on the mechanics and nature of occupation, revolution, and revenge. How it's all so pyrrhic, so sad, so futile in the end. I think I'll meditate on this book for months. The characters, how they went about their decisions, how torn they were so much of the time is all well-depicted. I wish the characters were better built though; they are mostly defined by their situations as well as their reactions to such.
Given all the wonders of the book, I had a few gripes so let me vent. The characters are so central to the book but their development needed to be further addressed. Sex and sexuality have a weird tone to them and the female characters are exposed to it almost as a tool throughout the book - didn't like that, though the afterword somewhat helped explain why this was the case. One of the POV characters also basically ends up having sex with most main females in their wake - for... The advancement of his character and/or t plot!? The Night Walkers come out of nowhere and make little sense. If you know, you know.
Wonderfully written. So poetic; I underlined many sentences. Also I great meditation on the mechanics and nature of occupation, revolution, and revenge. How it's all so pyrrhic, so sad, so futile in the end. I think I'll meditate on this book for months. The characters, how they went about their decisions, how torn they were so much of the time is all well-depicted. I wish the characters were better built though; they are mostly defined by their situations as well as their reactions to such.
Given all the wonders of the book, I had a few gripes so let me vent. The characters are so central to the book but their development needed to be further addressed. Sex and sexuality have a weird tone to them and the female characters are exposed to it almost as a tool throughout the book - didn't like that, though the afterword somewhat helped explain why this was the case. One of the POV characters also basically ends up having sex with most main females in their wake - for... The advancement of his character and/or t plot!? The Night Walkers come out of nowhere and make little sense. If you know, you know.