One of the interesting things about catching up with Guy Gavriel Kay’s back catalog is that you get to read all of the enthusiastic blurbs about about a book being the best fantasy ever, when you know that Kay has kept on getting better and better. Not that Tigana is a bad book. It is, as far as I’m concerned, a very good one, and commendably different from your average doorstop fantasy novel. It also boasts a cast of characters who are what used to be called “freedom fighters” and who these days would doubtless be categorized as “terrorists.”