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Tigana is Kay's best book to date, and that is saying a whole lot. This very gifted writer has crafted an intricate and compellingly believable fantasy world caught in the midst of a civil war to depose its evil wizard king, Brandin. I know that sounds like a familiar plot, but in Kay's master hands the story stands out and above from all the rest. The story is divided between focusing on the rebels and on Brandin and his household, and gradually the reader comes to be invested in both plot lines. Amazingly, Brandin is fleshed out as a sympathetic character without the usual plot devices; he's not the tormented soul, the misunderstood misfit or the charming scoundrel. He is quite capable of committing--and routinely does commit--horrific and evil acts. And yet, somehow Kay enables the reader to understand that Brandin is worthy of the love he receives. At the gripping climax, it is wrenching to choose which side should win. Imagine standing with Frodo at the Crack of Doom, hoping for Good to prevail, knowing Good should prevail, but simultaneously having gotten to know and understand Sauron so well that part of you hopes he might come out alright, too. Yes. It's that good.


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Tigana Anniversary Edition Guy Gavriel Kay 9780451457769 Books Reviews

Fantasy as you have seldom read it.
Forget the gritty details of warfare as in Eriksson books. Forget awesome displays of magic.
This book will take your hand and guide you with care and tenderness of a world ripped apart by pride, violence, coldness, avidity and stupidity.
Magic does exist, but it is difficult to wield, and a selected few are able to do it.
The story itself is compassionate and tender, depicting the adventures of a handful of irreducible dreamers that wish to make right what was made wrong twenty years before.
But after so many years, to make something right may mean to bring sufferance of a new kind, among people who have grown within the new set if rules.
The sentiments aroused during the reading are powerful. The insight the author gives us about human soul make up for the loss of rash adventure and buckets of blood, making imperative our desire to witness the end (or beginning?) of Tigana.
You will enjoy it.
Be forewarned and be prepared to fall in love. Be prepared to reach the heights and depths that is the very redoubtable sign of it.

That's how it is with all of Guy Gavriel Kay's books. Not just with a one or two characters but with many characters. Like in one of those good movies where a supporting character might even steal the spotlight just because the actor is somehow so real. Like a great director Kay directs our eye and feelings even more than he directs a scene. We find ourselves suddenly intimately involved with a supporting cast. Somehow each one is found worthy without great show of it. That's a creator's true gift.

Kay reveals and renders even the most mundane of "minor" characters with a poet's grace, noticing with a poet's eye (and tongue) the small details that elevate each of us to something of the respect if not dignity each (and each of us) deserves, honestly. And because it's so intimate we become vulnerable. Be prepared, if such can ever happen.

His main characters, all, exemplify mythic qualities (as do his novels), yet unlike mythic figures there's a humanity that makes even something like yearning seem noble. Be prepared that you will find yourselves great supporters of people you thought you might disdain and dislike; be prepared that you will hurt for them and cheer for them. As if you can ever warn someone - as if you could warn parents properly that they will feel anxiety and fear and great cheer.

Well, I tried. This is one of Kay's very best. Like the region for which the book is named, this mythic story and its characters will likely find its true named place inside you.
Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana is the best-written fantasy I’ve read in a while.

It wasn’t just the prose that got me (although Kay’s phrasing is often gorgeous). I loved the setup instead of having one villain threatening to take over the known world, Kay has two, both sorcerers. And they’ve already divided up the Palm, a hand-shaped peninsula based on the boot of early Renaissance Italy. The resulting balance is precarious. “Today only the power of one keeps the magic of the other from being wielded as it was when they conquered us,” a resident of the Palm notes near the beginning. “If we take them then we must take them both—or make them bring down each other.”

Better still, Kay made me want to root for one of the sorcerers. While his rival is a bit of a cliché, doing evil for evil’s sake, the more-powerful of the two is a man of passion, a sympathetic character who does evil in the name of love. His most heinous act is one of fatherly revenge after the Palm’s foremost province kills his son, the sorcerer uses his magic to erase the province’s name and history from everyone but its survivors.

Alessan, the last prince of that province (and the speaker of the quote above), is as close as the story comes to a protagonist. But he never gets a chapter from his point of view. Instead, we see him through the eyes of a rotating cast of supporters, almost all of them likable. The worldbuilding is diverse too. Kay excels in creating a sense of deep, varied history for the Palm’s provinces and its neighbors.

The story starts slowly, however. As I said, I came to love Kay’s prose, with its sentences that are occasionally as intricate as the plot. But the complexity was a barrier to entry until I got used to his style. (Which, to be fair, isn’t unusual for me. I remember balking at the opening pages of Colleen McCullough’s First Man in Rome. Then I adapted, and before I knew it, it was 400 in the morning.) I also think Kay could have cut the prologue and the first chapter—neither proved essential. And I felt Alessan’s final plan was overly reliant on assumptions and undisclosed knowledge about the book’s magic system; the conclusion wasn’t wholly satisfying.

Yet while I was onboard, the journey was exquisite. Tigana is a fantasy to get lost in. Well-worth the time.
Tigana is Kay's best book to date, and that is saying a whole lot. This very gifted writer has crafted an intricate and compellingly believable fantasy world caught in the midst of a civil war to depose its evil wizard king, Brandin. I know that sounds like a familiar plot, but in Kay's master hands the story stands out and above from all the rest. The story is divided between focusing on the rebels and on Brandin and his household, and gradually the reader comes to be invested in both plot lines. Amazingly, Brandin is fleshed out as a sympathetic character without the usual plot devices; he's not the tormented soul, the misunderstood misfit or the charming scoundrel. He is quite capable of committing--and routinely does commit--horrific and evil acts. And yet, somehow Kay enables the reader to understand that Brandin is worthy of the love he receives. At the gripping climax, it is wrenching to choose which side should win. Imagine standing with Frodo at the Crack of Doom, hoping for Good to prevail, knowing Good should prevail, but simultaneously having gotten to know and understand Sauron so well that part of you hopes he might come out alright, too. Yes. It's that good.