Several years ago, I read this author’s Crossroads trilogy, beginning with Spirit Gate. My memory of it is really fuzzy, but I remember it as being a fairly complex story, with multiple points-of-view and storylines. I also remember that I really enjoyed it, and I’ve wanted to try some of her othe...
Kate Elliott wrote a much ballyhooed series called Crown of Stars years ago that I read with hope that it would be a series and new author I would enjoy. Instead, the story just octopused, growing arms and spreading ink into the water of the story so that there were more and more characters and plo...
this took me forever to finish. the story didn't really pick up for me till I was more than halfway through. I am glad I finished though, and may even read the next book
Cold Magic is a story told in first person by Catherine Hassi Barahal aka ‘Cat” who is a university student interested in science and plodding a long in life. Then Andevai, a powerful cold mage comes to the Barahal home demanding to marry the eldest girl in the household. Cat’s aunt and uncle force...
Here, let me save you some time: Chapter 1 to 6 Cat misses her dead father, so she reads his expedition journals. Cat is cold because they can’t afford heat in the big, drafty house. She is hungry because she missed breakfast. Cat is cold when she runs to school because she forgot her coat, the...
Slightly steam-punky alternate Europe trapped in a kind of ice age? Different magic system? A some-what magically gifted young woman forcibly married (but not rapey - yay) to a hot, complicated mage? sounds fantastic!Except for the writing. It was sluggish and bloated. There was a lot of info d...
It would be a lie to say that very few things really get me excited – because I fangirl a lot - but the words “fantasy” and “steampunk” mixed together with other historic words like “Rome” really, really get me excited. I mean, Cold Magic might as well have been written solely for me with an enticin...
I absolutely loved this book that is a fantasy alternate 1800s historical novel. Elliott really did an excellent job researching and piecing together a Europe and Africa that took another path because of magic (and ghouls!) and Roman battles not working out quite the same way. The Phoenicians -- o...
3.75A strong, solid, original and interesting introduction. I've honestly never read anything like Cold Magic - and it left me hungry for more. Also: Christina was right --- the romance in this book is shaping up to be a doozy!
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