The Burning Stone (Crown of Stars)
by:
Kate Elliott (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B004VF61XU
Publish date: May 5th 2011
Publisher: Orbit
Pages no: 819
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Magic,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Epic Fantasy,
Epic,
High Fantasy,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Medieval
Series: Crown of Stars (#3)
I am continuing to enjoy this series, which deserves more attention than it’s gotten. Come on, it has everything you’d want from epic fantasy: intricate plotting on an epic scale, several major threats coming from different directions, battles that can and do go either way, complex political situati...
Raises the stakes quite a bit. It also embraces more straightforwardly (and organically!) the more fantastic elements scattered through the first two volumes in the series, which is all for the better - as the world itself finally "catches up" to the story's stretching out beyond the "alternate earl...
I grew frustrated by the numerous characters and slow patches, and gave up on the series after this book. I liked many of the characters and the world building, but this series fell into too many of the traps of Epic Fantasy (I'm looking at you, Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, and even GRRMartin) fo...
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