Tapestry or quilt: Volume 1.

To enter the Fionavar universe, I think it necessary to forget the multiple references to Tolkien found in this volume 1, criticism, and comments can be read here. The novel GG Kay can only suffer from the comparison because his writing lacks the qualities of style and subtlety of the Lord of the Rings: neither epic, nor depth, nor the sense of the concrete are not found. At most, we can advance it resembles, by its relative schematism, to sketches Silmarillion.

To speak Fionavar, you better look at his qualities rather than the clumsy test Kay to match the Master. These qualities may be mentioned fine narrative pieces, like the beautiful meeting Dave and goddess huntress, which reactivates the myth of Actaeon, or voluntary agony of another hero in the tree of the summer. Many beautiful passages of striking scenes, connected by a sometimes clumsy and haphazard fashion, or too obvious, but I remain hopeful of finding in Volumes 2 and 3, an artist who has further advanced in his profession, as seen in "The mosaic of Sarantium" or "The Lions of Al-Rassan" pleasant and perhaps works better controlled. Kay is an honorable novelist may be expected much.