Summer reading challenge!

Hi ladies!
It's that time of year again - school is almost out, and we are almost free! Time to get out the books and start reading grown-up words again.

My first recommendation is The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay. He gets bonus points for being a Canadian author, but this book has been a classic for years. The books seems to alternately get great and terrible reviews, depending on whether the reader likes the genre. Yes, it's a fantasy book about four "normal" people plucked from the everyday and dropped into an alternate universe, but like series such as Narnia and Lord of the Rings, the concept works. The characters are real and approachable, and the new world they find themselves in is as creatively imagined as anything I've ever read. The best part for me was that GGKay obviously has read his archetypal literature, and there are themes and ideas here that I've always enjoyed.

I can lend my brother's copy if you promise to return it in good condition, otherwise it's available at any library or second-hand bookshop.

I haven't read anything else heart-stoppingly good, so I'll wait and see before I recommend anything else. Now, who's next?