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Sailing to Sarantium

Book One of the Sarantine Mosaic

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Sailing to Sarantium

By: Guy Gavriel Kay
Narrated by: Berny Clark
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Crispin is a mosaicist, a layer of bright tiles. Still grieving for the family he lost to the plaque, he lives only for his arcane craft. But an imperial summons from Valerius the Trakesian to Sarantium, the most magnificent place in the world, is difficult to resist.

In a world half-wild and tangled with magic, a journey to Sarantium means a walk into destiny. Bearing with him a deadly secret and a Queen's seductive promise, guarded only by his own wits and a talisman from an alchemist's treasury, Crispin sets out for the fabled city. Along the way he will encounter a great beast from the mythic past, and in robbing the zubir of its prize, he wins a woman's devotion and a man's loyalty - and loses a gift he didn't know he had until it was gone.

Once in this city ruled by intrigue and violence, he must find his own source of power. Struggling to deal with the dangers and seductive lures of the men and woman around him, Crispin does discover it, in a most unusual place - high on the scaffolding of the greatest work of art ever imagined....

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I do not agree with others that the voice actor Berny Clark was good. There was no pause whatsoever between one section and another, making the transitions very confusing at times. His way of voicing women was to make their voices so faint as to be imperceptible, which is no fun when one is listening in the car on the way to work. Most of the narration was fine, but these were glaring problems that would make me want to skip his narration in future.

The story is wonderful, the characters well flushed out and the plot full of twists. This is only my second Guy Gavriell Kay book, but I am very excited to keep reading!

Great story, annoying narrator

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All Kay's works are great. I so often preach his praises to my friends, family, and colleagues, and am confronted with "what should I read first." This Series is almost always my recommendation. Kay teaches world history in fantasy in many of his works to the extent that I know of a homeschooling program where his works are part of the curriculum. The voice actor is very good, but the editing has a major flaw of jumping from one character/setting to the next with ZERO pause in-between. It's is like this in both books, and caused me to have to skip back literally hundreds of times.

The Kay Series I Mostly Recommend To Newbies

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Although this isn't one of my favorites, it remains an outstanding work of art. This author's beautiful prose is achieved by few others.

Guy Gavriel Kay never disappoints

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I was not expectiong anything special from this book. Well I was wrong, this is a fast moving, well written book. I look foreword's to the rest of the series.

A very good start

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Guy Gavriel Kay does it again delivering a beautiful story filled with nuance, intellect, the historical vibe, etc. the narrator is also excellent with the array of voices and each voice fits the character. Solid 8/10.

Amazing!

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