false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171506604m/104080.jpg 104080 14 From award-winning author Guy Gavriel Kay, who "stands among the world's finest fantasy authors" (Montreal Gazette), comes a sweeping tale evocative of the Celtic and Norse cultures of the ninth and tenth centuries, filled with the human passion and epic adventure he is noted for. 416279 2004 The Last Light of the Sun total:736|5:176|4:284|3:216|2:53|1:7| 736 2777 1029 74 4 1 false false Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 08:00:24 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 14:39:45 -0700 2008 The Last Light Of The Sun. Some things about it were predictable, but that's not a new thing for me when I read fantasy. Some of the things were predictable but I never figured out how they would come about. I really love the melding of different cultures in this, the Norse an...more...]]> 3 2 false false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jan 14 11:22:31 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 11:26:38 -0800 2008
As all his novels are, this is based on a historical area and cultural group- he chooses the British Isles and the...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu May 03 15:27:56 -0700 2007 Thu May 03 15:28:22 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 09:46:37 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 08:49:13 -0800 2008 1? 5 1 false false Thu Apr 17 17:28:38 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 17:52:31 -0700 2008 Still, the first time I read it, i felt it didn't stand up to his earlier work. By that point I had fallen ...more...]]> 5 0 false true Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 06:08:54 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 06:33:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 08 08:50:09 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 08:56:33 -0700 2009 Unlike Cornwell, Kay distills the essence of the period and is not hung up on the historical events of o...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Mar 25 15:00:01 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 15:05:22 -0700 2009
Truth be told, I did read this one, back when it was published, and felt largel...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Mar 10 05:52:40 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 05:53:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Sep 11 12:21:08 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 14:40:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 16:10:14 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 21:40:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 11:35:39 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 11:57:06 -0700 2007 The Lions of Al-Rassan and The Sarantine Mosaic, this tale of conflict and change among the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, and Viking cultures has all of Kay's virtues in spades: the elegant prose, the effortless command of historical detail, the elegaic tone, the knack for m...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 05 19:01:25 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 19:03:23 -0700 2007 Last Light of the Sun is both a dazzling epic tale and an
intricate musing about faith, civilization and history.
Kay has trod this ground before (Sailing to Sarantium, The
Lord of the Emperors) but never as directly as here.

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