If you like your fantasy to be fun and fast moving then this is the book for you.Powers has always had an almost frantic imagination. In some books he reigns it in tight and focuses it on single ideas, but in others he lets it all out and throws everything in the melting pot.So here we get the seige of Vienna, The Fisher King, Merlin, King Arthur, Sigurd, drunken Vikings, and, best of all, it is all tied together through an ancient brewery, where the beer is quite literally "The Food of the Goods."It moves quickly, but is let down slightly by a rushed ending.Not Power's best written book, but still great fun.