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Originally Posted by Belfaborac
Thanks for that tip. I've not read it yet and it's now dropped sharply down on my TBR list. I thought it sounded a bit iffy, but G. G. Kay is one of my favourite writers, so I bought it nonetheless.
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All depends on when you read it. It was one of the first things I read by GGK, and as such it didn't "suck" for me. But whenever I saw how much better the other books he writes were, I could understand how disappointed someone might be if they read Ysabel after the likes of Tigana and the Lions of Al Rassan.
I think it's the contemporary setting and young protagonist that most fans have a beef with. It's not something he usually
does. It didn't bother me all that much. There's still Fionavar easter eggs hidden in Ysabel (like there is in all his works), so there's still some things to be enjoyed.
Anyway, along with many of the great historical-fiction authors already mentioned... I'll throw out Stephen Lawhead and the obscure works of Harold Lamb and Robert Shea.
I'd also point out the existence of
HistoricalNovels.info. Broken out into a wide variety of categories for perusing.