![]() ![]() Pasithea di Tigana, named after the Greek personification of relaxation/meditation, is anything but a calm motherĬatriana's red hair is used for actual symbolic effect, i.e. ![]() ![]() Maracco ball and sticks = ball hockey? (given GGK's Canadian background.) It took me an embarrassing amount of time to make that connection. At first, I found Alessan like a bit of an Aragorn expy (Alessan, Elessar), and Catriana had some of the overused redheaded personality traits (bold, sharp-tongued and a bit impetuous perhaps some intentional connections to Caterina Sforza?), but as the novel progressed I found these similarities to be pleasingly less and less so. Off the top of my head, some of the things I liked were: the strength of GGK's prose, the detailed worldbuilding (but never done to irrelevance) and the depth and complexity of his characters - although, that last point took some time. Just for fun, I'd started putting in sticky notes between the pages, so that when she got her copy back she could see my comments as I progressed through the book. I'd never read anything by Guy Gavriel Kay before, and I was thoroughly impressed.Ī fellow fantasy-fan and friend of mine and I had agreed to do this book trade where we'd exchange books we liked, so long as they were around the same length (she has my copy of The Name of the Wind). ![]()
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