Absolutely devoured the Fionavar Tapestry, Tigana, The Lions of Al-Rassan and A Song for Arbonne. This book just did not pull me in. Another Kay fan expressed interest and I hope that this book hits the spot of the next reader more than it did mine.

On May 19, 2003 this book was mailed to BCer pikapolonica.

Arrived to Stockholm! Thank you very much, AnitaNovel!

Update (25th Aug): read it and have to agree with the previous reader. I loved the other books by GG Kay, but this one is too complicated to follow and too messy compared to the others, which made me want to stay up all night to read them. This one didn't... The story is placed into the fantastical historical world of the ancient Istanbul - Sarantium and it's as always with GG Kay full of intrigue and secret plots of one party against the other.

Release planned for Wednesday, August 27, 2003 at Hostel Ruthensteiner in Vienna, Vienna Austria.

Another holiday release: I will leave the book on one of the tables at the courtyard of the hostel Ruthensteiner, Robert Hammerlinggasse 24. The book will be left on Wednesday morning, when I leave Vienna.