The Lions of Al-Rassan
Aug. 12th, 2025 02:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI remember being a massive Guy Gavriel Kay fan back in the day - The Fionovar Tapestry was very impactful for me in my late teens and I thought I'd read all his books up to the Sarantium duology (which I've definitely read more than once). But throughout reading The Lions of Al-Rassan, I didn't remember it at all - and it was a very weird reading experience.
It had sections that covered all the points on a five-point rating scale - and I swung wildly from chapter to chapter between really enjoying it and wanting to give up on it - with a lot in between that was difficult to follow or quite tedious. So, yeah...
I loved all the female characters, though I'm really not sure how I feel about the sexual politics. And there were awful things that felt completely unnecessary. And then, after what seemed like a very over-complicated second half, lots of important stuff was just skipped over and then summarised in the epilogue.
I have very little clue how I feel about this book overall!
It had sections that covered all the points on a five-point rating scale - and I swung wildly from chapter to chapter between really enjoying it and wanting to give up on it - with a lot in between that was difficult to follow or quite tedious. So, yeah...
I loved all the female characters, though I'm really not sure how I feel about the sexual politics. And there were awful things that felt completely unnecessary. And then, after what seemed like a very over-complicated second half, lots of important stuff was just skipped over and then summarised in the epilogue.
I have very little clue how I feel about this book overall!
