Comments on: Ysabel, by Guy Gavriel Kay

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:01:08 +0000

I could not agree more Trudy with your review. I of course enjoyed the book as I have every Kay book, but it was missing that complexity that I have come to enjoy. His other books just seem to be more intertwined where characters are concerned and things that seem not to matter come back later to make your mouth drop open. It was great though bringing back Kim and Dave. I would have read it just for that.

By: trudyj65

trudyj65 — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 23:17:48 +0000

Jamie, wasn’t it you that took the U of T class where GGK visited and spoke to the class, and someone asked him what happened to the characters from Fionavar after they went back home, and he said he really didn’t know? That’s bothered me for years — I felt he SHOULD know, even if he wasn’t going to write about it. So reading this has really put that problem to rest for me.

Definitely time for a reread of Fionavar, I think!

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:29:50 +0000

This actually makes me want to read The Fionavar Tapestry again. It’s been over a decade since I last read it, so I remember little about it except that I loved it.

Still, I’m not sure I’d want to read Ysabel without first reading Fionovar if there are character threads to be tied up, since I don’t remember the characters or the plot of the earlier novel (except that the Arthur myth was woven through it).