You’re going to love The Lions of Al-Rassan! Rather than let fate decide, I let Jake decide that would be my first GGK read. Well said about audiobook narrators being bards of our time. The Broken Sword is going into my future reading plans!
@@Johanna_reads I did ask Jake and then fate intervened 😂. Let me know when you get around to reading The Broken Sword. I will use it as an excuse to read it again.
Interesting, I can see why you'd think of Poul Anderson. GGK's definitely drawing more on people like Dunsany and Eddison with that prose of his though - one thing I've loved about all his books I've read is just this mythic feel I get from how he tells the story. It feels like reading about a story that's going to become a legend. Absolutely 100% definitely read Al-Rassan yet. It's my favorite of all the GGK I've read to date. Tigana and Arbonne have been getting more love on Booktube, but Al-Rassan's an absolute banger. Came within an inch of being my book for 2023.
I think Anderson was drawing from those same writers. Fantasy as we know it was still in its infancy when The Broken Sword was written. You are totally right about the mythic feeling of his stories. All this hype for Al-Rassan is not good for my TBR 😂.
@@JosephReadsBooks It's a book worth disregarding the TBR for! It made me regret not finishing up my read of all things GGK sooner - I still have 6 or so of his books to go.
@@OnlyTheBestFantasyNovels well crap, when you put it like that... I may be starting Doomsday Book by Connie Willis this weekend. If I don't I might jump into Lions of Al-Rassan.
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I actually finished The Last Light of the Sun yesterday, I haven't read Broken Sword but there's definitely some of what you mentioned going on. Highly endorse reading Lions of Al-Rassan, I loved it and I know very little about Spanish history.
@@JosephReadsBooksLast Light is underrated imo. Lions was my 2nd GGK and the one that made me a fan. I liked Tigana but Lions was it for me. Its still Top 3 Kay for me.
Cool review! I’ve read A Song for Arbonne, and though I think it’s pretty good, I wasn’t blown away by it. I haven’t read Tigana, but I think it might be more my thing.
