A review by reasonpassion
Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay

5.0

Have you ever read a book of which story and word is so profound that you feel a need to weep but know that to refrain would be to honor it greater? This is such a story. The mosaicist Crispin finds himself in the midst of a world that is equal to the complexity and beauty of the images he seeks to create. What else is there but to swim as best you can and hope that you do honor to self and others? That is what he does, meeting heartache with poise, dishonor with righteous anger and life with a profound need to find expression within it. While this is the second book in the story, it should be read immediately after the other to see the sheer glorious scope of what is accomplished.