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River of Stars (Under Heaven #2)

Guy Gavriel Kay

Hardcover | Pages: 639 pages

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Title	:	River of Stars (Under Heaven #2)
Author	:	Guy Gavriel Kay
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 639 pages
Published	:	April 2nd 2013 by Roc (first published April 1st 2013)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Historical Fantasy. Cultural. China

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In his critically acclaimed novel Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay told a vivid and powerful story inspired by China’s Tang Dynasty. Now, the international bestselling and multiple award-winning author revisits that invented setting four centuries later with an epic of prideful emperors, battling courtiers, bandits and soldiers, nomadic invasions, and a woman battling in her own way, to find a new place for women in the world – a world inspired this time by the glittering, decadent Song Dynasty. Ren Daiyan was still just a boy when he took the lives of seven men while guarding an imperial magistrate of Kitai. That moment on a lonely road changed his life—in entirely unexpected ways, sending him into the forests of Kitai among the outlaws. From there he emerges years later—and his life changes again, dramatically, as he circles towards the court and emperor, while war approaches Kitai from the north. Lin Shan is the daughter of a scholar, his beloved only child. Educated by him in ways young women never are, gifted as a songwriter and calligrapher, she finds herself living a life suspended between two worlds. Her intelligence captivates an emperor—and alienates women at the court. But when her father’s life is endangered by the savage politics of the day, Shan must act in ways no woman ever has. In an empire divided by bitter factions circling an exquisitely cultured emperor who loves his gardens and his art far more than the burdens of governing, dramatic events on the northern steppe alter the balance of power in the world, leading to events no one could have foretold, under the river of stars.

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Original Title:	River of Stars
ISBN:	0451464974 (ISBN13: 9780451464972)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Under Heaven #2
Literary Awards:	Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2014), Sunburst Award Nominee for Adult (2014), Prix Aurora Award Nominee for Best Novel (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2013), Prix Elbakin.net for Meilleur roman fantasy traduit (2017) Copper Cylinder Award for Adult (2014)

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http://www.rantingdragon.com/review-o...River of Stars is the twelfth novel by Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay and is based loosely on twelfth century China during the Song Dynasty. Like many of his works, Kay weaves historical names, places and events into a fictional tapestry that still retains the feel of historical work, while engaging the reader in the intensely character-driven style that makes his works so engrossing.Nothing happens, and everything happensIt's been my experience with

What is it to fall out of love? It is has been a long time since Ive done it and so I dont remember. From what I recall, it was something unconscious for a long time. Something in your turn of phrase, in the explanations that you seek out and find, the articles you share and how often you choose to go to bed early. I remember it being full of protestations, a passion that was stronger than I felt and heavy with tears. The music I remember is always on constant repeat and probably confused by

Kay has fallen into a bad habit of engaging in crude foreshadowing and irritating digressions. In both Under Heaven and River of Stars he has stopped to tell us explicitly why the story is important. It is as if he has lost the confidence to just let the story tell itself and let the reader decide why it's important.In River of Stars the characters lack the nuance that I came to love him for. Few of them are a mix of good and bad. Ren Daiyan is essentially a superhero, capable of amazing feats

I'm normally a GGK fangirl: I can read "Tigana" a hundred times and love it, swoon about his character and world building skills, his modification of historical events into amazing fantasy settings. I can do all of this with almost everything he's written - but I can't do it with "River of Stars". The character development is weaker than his standard, the political events painfully predictable even for someone not intimately familiar with Chinese history, and the novel on the whole becomes an

It would be wrong to call Guy Gavriel Kays new novel River of Stars a sequel to 2010s Under Heaven. As Mr. Kay recently said in an interview I conducted with him: If someone wrote a book about 16th century Italy (think, Renaissance) and another about Garibaldi in the 19th century, would we be discussing how they were similar or different, 400 years apart?Its true: yes, these novels share the setting of Kitai, a fantasy version of China thats, as the author likes to say, a quarter turn to the

I feel cheated. I hate these wishy-washy anti-climactic Kay endings, and the wishy-washy over-virtuous flat characters, but that was not the only thing that disappointed me here.I must say that although I loved most of the first three quarters, I hated the ending.The book is supposedly based on the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty in China, and a lot of the background does indeed portray this.Sure, there was a Chinese general who underwent a fate like this, but since Kay changed and

A sequel in terms of setting and history, if not character or plot, River of Stars sees Guy Gavriel Kay return to the Chinese-inspired world of Under Heaven. It's a book that can be enjoyed by new readers as a standalone volume, but one which holds added significance for readers already familiar with the first.As a fan of Kay's work, and someone who thoroughly enjoyed Shen Tai's journey through the dying days of the Tang Dynasty, I was quite curious to discover how Ren Daiyan's adventures in the