{"id":42,"date":"2009-02-04T17:14:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T22:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2025-03-20T17:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T01:07:37","slug":"review-a-song-for-arbonne-by-guy-gavriel-kay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Review: A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/104085.A_Song_for_Arbonne?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Song for Arbonne\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1171506608m\/104085.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/104085.A_Song_for_Arbonne?utm_medium=api&#038;utm_source=blog_review\">A Song for Arbonne<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/60177.Guy_Gavriel_Kay\">Guy Gavriel Kay<\/a><br \/>\nMy  rating: 5 of 5 stars<br \/>\nI enjoyed this much, much more than Tigana. Where I felt the writing was a bit choppy in the beginning, either I got used to Kay&#8217;s style or became so swept up in the story it didn&#8217;t matter. I loved all the twists and turns the story took, the subtle discoveries of hidden agendas and politics, the world, the sociology of the people, gee I think I just loved it all! I particularly liked the sociology of the Arbonnais people with their love of music and the concept of &#8220;the court of love&#8221;. I particularly enjoyed how good won out over evil in the end and the happy ending (yeah, I guess I&#8217;m just a romantic at heart) but even that happy ending took some fascinating twists and turns. Kay is such a marvelous storyteller! He is also a penultimate writer. There were so many times I would encounter anywhere from sentences to entire paragraphs or pages that I wanted to strike through with my yellow highlighter as spectacular examples of beautiful prose. I know it&#8217;s early in the year, but this is the best book I&#8217;ve read this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay My rating: 5 of 5 stars I enjoyed this much, much more than Tigana. Where I felt the writing was a bit choppy in the beginning, either I got used to Kay&#8217;s style or became so swept up in the story it didn&#8217;t matter. I loved all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}