The Last Light of the Sun

Melanie Marttila is a Sudbury-based freelance writer and writing
consultant.

Guy Gavriel Kay, the award-winning author of eight previous fantasy
novels, has proven once again that he is a master of his craft.

Kay has done his usual excellent and thorough job of historical
research to make his alternative world eminently and viscerally
believable. The fierce Erlings continue to raid the shores of an ancient
Britain populated by the Cyngael and the Anglcyn. A new Anglcyn king,
Aeldred, seeks to bring enlightenment and the religion of Jad to his
subjects in an effort to unite the Anglcyn and the Cyngael and drive
back the Erling raiders once and for all. Multiple plotlines follow the
princes and princesses of the Cyngael and the Anglcyn, and are skilfully
woven together by ancient powers of the land and the faerie.

Kay has written a historic fantasy of epic proportions that offers the
promise of future instalments. The inclusion of Vikingesque verse,
bardic song and storytelling, and cattle raids gives further vibrant
life to Kay’s lovingly drawn characters and the world they inhabit.
The Last Light of the Sun cannot be more highly recommended to the
author’s fans and new readers alike, as well as all libraries.