A review by dibiz116
Tigana: Anniversary Edition by Guy Gavriel Kay

adventurous mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

I kind of hated this - it had every classic awful mysoginistic fantasy trope like 70x over plus a really weird plot and GoT style incest for no reason just for good measure. It's just completely unbelievable that everyone  magically forgot the name of a city because of a curse, and the people who remember the name sacrifice literally everything and start a war to undo the spell? Like... the city is physically still there. The people are still alive. Sure, kill the tyrant because he's a tyrant but everyone was so much more upset about the name being lost??? Who cares at that point? It made no sense to me and none of the characters acted logically at all. There were a few things I did like -- the magic systemfelt different than any other I had read before, the character study of one of the two evil kings was actually extremely intriguing - Brandin was a complex and a questionably redeemed character by the end, and the twist
with the identity of the fool having been Valentin Prince of Tigana all along
really caught me off guard. Those details saved this from a DNF and/or a lower rating but it was still not an enjoyable read at all.
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