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Title: Who edited this thing!?
Review: My friends highly recommended Guy Gavriel Kay, so I was excited when I bought his latest book, The Last Light of the Sun. What makes this already-tepid fantasy unbearable is the rampant overuse of ellipses ("..."), which Kay apparently uses to attempt mimicking the cadences of real speech. But they are so frequently and gratuitously used that I constantly wondered, "Who is this guy's editor!?" The pages read like the work of a giddy adolescent, or an insecure amateur. A sampling, from just two consecutive pages:"Why did you...save me in the pool?""They tell us...they tell us there will be Light.""You've...seen them all these years?""This one...is different, is often here.""I had...tasks in the world, lad."Not one of these sentences wouldn't be improved by omitting the ellipse. They only cheapen the characters and the story.
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