1. I love all Guy Gavriel Kays. I think Lions is his most perfect work, and I'd probably rank Last Light of the Sun last, just because I reread it the other day and didn't find the characters hooked me enough. I haven't read Ysabel, thnak you for reminding me! I love his work so much.
2. Dorothy Dunnett is simply glorious. She has a similar way with sticking the knife into your heart - utterly painful, utterly unsentimental. You should start with The Game Of Kings - I remember how Byzantine and baffling it felt midway through my first read, but the payoff's incredibly worth it, and every time you reread it, there's something else to find. That goes for every book in the Lymond Chronicles, and for The Lymond Chronicles themselves as a whole, when read against the later prequel series (House of Niccolo). I seriously envy people who get to read them for the first time.
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Date: 2009-06-29 02:12 pm (UTC)2. Dorothy Dunnett is simply glorious. She has a similar way with sticking the knife into your heart - utterly painful, utterly unsentimental. You should start with The Game Of Kings - I remember how Byzantine and baffling it felt midway through my first read, but the payoff's incredibly worth it, and every time you reread it, there's something else to find. That goes for every book in the Lymond Chronicles, and for The Lymond Chronicles themselves as a whole, when read against the later prequel series (House of Niccolo). I seriously envy people who get to read them for the first time.