A Song for Arbonne - Review I'd give this one a 3.5/5, edging towards a 4. This is my second Guy Gavriel Kay book, after *Under Heaven*, which I similarly enjoyed but felt a similar sort of ambivalence toward. By rights, I should be all over Kay's work. I love history. The An Lushan rebellion (which *Under Heaven* is based on) and the whole history of the Tang dynasty is one of my favorite subjects, and I feel a similar fascination towards Provence. My parents had their honeymoon in Provence and I grew up hearing stories about how much they loved it, how beautiful it was, and so on. I finally got to go to Provence, for a brief moment, when I was living in Spain, and I myself fell in love. There's always something that holds me back from loving Kay's work. I can't exactly pinpoint what it is, but I think part of it is that I don't feel like he truly captures the settings he writes in all that well.…