The Lions of Al-Rassan

This was my first book by Kay. At over five hundred pages, it's one of the longest books I've read in a long time. I was dreading it at first, but as I got past the first fifty pages or so, I became enchanted by the prose. There are a lot of characters and city-states, and there is a lot of politics. Usually I lose my way in this type of book. But the prose was so glorious that the reading of it became easy and I didn't have that hard of a time following the kings, the religions, the politics, and the warring. It helped that I read some reviews first so I didn't go cold into the book. So I knew ahead of time that the setting is an alternative Medieval Spain, conquered by a people like the Moors, with the old Christian-like states pushed north, and a Jewish-like minority throughout.

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