欧宝娱乐

This book is compelling - and it's a YA book, by the way; I don't care what the publisher says - with characters I liked, an unusual approach to the usual YA book Parental Dilemma (for once, the YA tells his parents about his problems; that hardly ever happens), and a plot that I enjoyed. It was a fast, fun read.

And then the ending kind of - um. I'm not exactly sure how, but in the last fifty pages or so, this went from being a four-star book to a three-star book for me; the ending felt simultaneously too rushed and anticlimactic, and it just didn't feel like a resolution and explanation interesting enough to match the problem or the characters.

But the book itself is highly enjoyable, if not brilliant. Kay is, as usual, master of the craft of writing, although he's showing it less obviously here than in most of his other books. And I liked the mystery component of this, the way the first hundred pages keep you guessing along with the main character.

I'd recommend this one to people who like YA fantasy, especially modern-setting fantasy. (If you just like fantasy, period, there are other, better Guy Gavriel Kay books for you, though.) And I'm not sorry I bought it.