![]() In one of that province's public houses, a painter and a poet debate the chances that their former lord will be a given a proper burial by the brutal Barbadian oppressor who has ruled over their people since the bloody invasion he staged decades ago. We are plunged into a world most assuredly in motion with tell of the death of the Duke of Astibar. Thoughtful, tragic Tigana, however, strikes an ideal balance between that frenetic sense of momentum and the distinctly slower motion of more considered fantasy sequences.įrom the first, Guy Gavriel Kay is a masterful pacemaker. If that appeals, Richard Morgan will be waiting to take your names after class. ![]() ![]() ![]() The best such novels can achieve a breathless pace that carries the reader from beat to headlong beat unmindful of such oversight. There is plenty to be said for straight-forward narrative progression, of course stories told from beginning to middle to end with nary a word wasted on anything so distracting as a character arc. ![]() It is not deceptive to say that Tigana begins with a lie. ![]()
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