I’ll update this more later on after I’ve read through the information about it, but some details on Guy Gavriel Kay’s next novel are available here. Looks like Ysabel will be a marked departure from the kind of thing he’s written before.
(But will it have a map???)
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Or perhaps it could be seen as a return to his roots. Fionavar having begun in the mundane world as well… I’m just sayin’. As I said in reply to ‘dave’ on the BW forums, one cannot pigeonhole Guy as a writer, nor would one want to.
Just from looking at the stuff that’s posted on BW, this reads more like it’s in Charles de Lint territory than Fionavar was.
I guess it’ll be a while before we find out more about the world of Jad and the Asharites. Not a bad thing, in itself. I’m still greatly looking forward to the book.
I thought of de Lint as well when I read the introduction. It will be very interesting to see what he does with it.