The Burning Stone
by:
Kate Elliott (author)
With the fates of kingdoms shifting due to civil war, time is running out for Liath and Sanglant, made outcasts by their love. They must choose among the pathways of politics, forbidden knowledge, and family.
With the fates of kingdoms shifting due to civil war, time is running out for Liath and Sanglant, made outcasts by their love. They must choose among the pathways of politics, forbidden knowledge, and family.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780886778132 (0886778131)
Publish date: April 1st 1999
Publisher: Daw Books
Pages no: 768
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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