The Darkest Road

3.0 out of 5 stars

And thus ends my three-week long journey with The Fionavar Tapestry, a solid if unspectacular series.

Kay's story itself is undeniably epic and this book features satisfying conclusions to each of the story threads, but throughout the second and third books I found myself scanning paragraphs for plot progression rather than hanging on every word of a page, which is a clue to myself that I'm ultimately disengaged from the proceedings. The Arthurian elements that were introduced in the second book never quite landed for me, but I appreciate Kay's attempts to overlay several different mythologies onto his story.

Although this trilogy won't become one of my favorites, I'm very interested to see the television adaptation of this series, as well as continuing to read through Kay's other works.

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