From Publishers Weekly
The concluding novel in Kay's trilogy, The Fionavar Tapestry, opens as the fantasy world's magically prolonged winter yields to springbut a spring where showers bring death, emptying entire cities. To combat the arch evil Rakoth Maugrim, the High King of Brennin marches north with his army and allies, anticipating a final confrontation. At the same time, a crucial choice faces young Darien, the son produced by Rakoth's rape of Guinevere. Feeling rejected by the good and the light, Darien sets off on the dark road to his father. The exceptionally detailed background of this fantasy would be more impressive if it didn't suffocate a book already burdened with static narrative and turgid, poetic prose that all too fittingly captures the adolescent posturing of its transplanted college student protagonists. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

ANNOTATION

The final volume of Kay's vast epic fantasy weaves together all the complex threads of the previous volumes, as the heroes of the first two stories--The Summer Tree and The Wandering Fire--unite to aid the armies of Light in the ultimate battle against evil. Original.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

In a world of extraordinary imagination a final battle is waged against a power of unimaginable proportions.

FROM THE CRITICS

Andre Norton

One of the very best fantasies...since Tolkien.

Locus

A remarkable achievement.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

One of those books that change your perception of the world forever.

Toronto Star

Immense scale, literary richness and dazzling heroes.

Fantasy Review