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A Song for Arbonne
A Fantasy Novel by Guy Gavriel Kay
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Epic Fantasy,
- Political Intrigue,
- Forbidden Love
This book is for you if you're into...
- Epic fantasy with clashing kingdoms and forbidden loyalties
- Mercenary outsiders drawn into court intrigue and culture clash
- Music, poetry, and goddess worship woven into political drama
From the critically-acclaimed author of The Fionavar Tapestry comes an epic fantasy novel of love, both courtly and forbidden, and two kingdoms endlessly opposed....
Blaise of Gorhaut is a warrior. He fought for his king and country, until the king died with an arrow in his eye at the battle of Iersen Bridge, and a dishonorable treaty ceded a good part of his country to foreign hands. He has broken relations with his father, adviser to the king of Gorhaut, and abandoned the use of his family name.
Now, Blaise is a mercenary. He never expected to work for the lords of Arbonne, the warm, fertile lands south of Gorhaut, whose people praise the love of women—they even worship a goddess, instead of the god. They are a soft people, or so he thought. But for all their nonsense about love, their troubadours and songs, they will fight for their country, when invasion comes from the north.
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