Thursday, January 24, 2008

Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay

You’ll find history, fantasy, romance , you name it, in this 430-pager. On a trip to Aix-en-Provence with his photographer father, Ned becomes entangled in an ancient love triangle. First he meets a girl his age and a man who’s seemingly ageless, and then he discovers tunnels below the church. There are lots of characters, including villains and the mysterious Ysabel.

What struck me most about the book was all of the research Guy Gavriel Kay must have done. You really get a sense of France’s ancient cathedrals, battlefields and coliseums.

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