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Tigana - Review
Link to the author's (G. G. Kay) personal website
Genre: Fantasy
Publication Type: Book
Tags:
- Average Age of Main Characters (23)
- Length (6 / 10)
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Blurb: Tigana is the magical story of a beleaguered land struggling to be free. It is the tale of a people so cursed by the black sorcery of a cruel despotic king that even the name of their once-beautiful homeland cannot be spoken or remembered...
But years after the devastation, a handful of courageous men and women embark upon a dangerous crusade to overthrow their conquerors and bring back to the dark world the brilliance of a long-lost name...Tigana.
Against the magnificently rendered background of a world both sensuous and barbaric, this sweeping epic of a passionate people pursuing their dream is breathtaking in its vision, changing forever the boundaries of fantasy fiction.
Review: This book doesn't make an attempt to push or re-define or genre, it's just a beautiful classic fantasy book that perfects techniques used many times before it. The story is gripping from the get-go and there's a solid array of characters, with muliple adjacent story-lines. Big advantage to the book is the writing though, as for example, the motivations for all characters are clear yet the characters themselves are far from one-dimensional. Simply a solid stand-alone fantasy book.