The Last Light of the Sun

Author : Guy Gavriel Kay

Genre : Fantasy

This book has with some delightful fantasy elements embedded in a historical context, which is often Kay’s trademark. The Last Light of the Sun is set in the time of Alfred the Great and the warring tribes of that time period in the 9th century.

Bern Thorkellson, punished for his father’s sins and denied his heritage and home, commits an act of vengeance and desperation that brings him face-to-face with a past he’s been trying to leave behind.

In the Anglcyn lands of King Aeldred, the shrewd king, battling inner demons all the while, shores up his defenses with alliances and diplomacy—and with swords and arrows. Meanwhile his exceptional, unpredictable sons and daughters give shape to their own desires when battle comes and darkness falls in the spirit wood that no one with any sense would cross through.

And in the valleys and shrouded hills of the Cyngael, whose voices carry music even as they feud and raid amongst each other, violence and love become deeply interwoven when the dragon ships come and Alun ab Owyn, pursuing an enemy in the night, glimpses strange lights gleaming above forest pools…