Ugh. The only reason I kept reading this book was to follow the story of Cat and Vai's relationship. The plot was nonexistent. Random stuff happens and it's confusing and characters appear and disappear without rhyme or reason. I think there are some interesting elements of the story that get poo...
Great conclusion to the trilogy. Even while working through the filter of Cat's 1st-person narration, Elliott does a wonderful job providing satisfying closure to the fates of a large cast of characters. One of the things I like best about the series (besides the distinctive, memorable character...
Finally finished with this book!I enjoyed the trilogy overall, and found myself a little enthralled with idea of reeves and guardians. However, each book moves incredibly slowly, and each book continues to add another new character/plotline to read into- thus making up the ~900 pages of each book...
I'm usually much too lazy to give reviews, but I felt obliged to write one for this series because I believe Elliott's writing is somewhat under-appreciated. Among the plethora of epic fantasy series that came out over the last 30 years, the Crown of Stars is relatively unknown, so I wanted to ma...
This is definitely a slow-moving series. I knew it from the first book, but I didn't feel it as much then. Maybe I should have taken a break before starting book two, because I found myself a bit impatient at the slowness this time around. I felt like events had built to a point in the last book ...
This is the third of seven books in Kate Elliott's epic fantasy series Crown of Stars. I did NOT enjoy this series and actually gave up two-thirds of the way through book five.It's funny, because in my review of book two (Prince of Dogs) I said this series was like the hybrid baby of George ...
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.The Crown of Stars series is well-thought out and obviously well-planned. It's epic in scope and it's got a lot of texture. There are many complex characters who we follow in parallel, as in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. Some of them are very likable, and ...
Mild spoilers implied, be warned. This book was tricky. Of all Elliott's works (so far), this one took me the longest to get into. The character introduced at the beginning turns out to be a fake-out lead, time skips and switching between numerous POVs until it finally gets settled a little after...
This book is going realllllly slowly. I"m on page 350 or so, and it's just not pulling me in the way the earlier books in this series did. Dare I say it? There are too many different things going on. I am having a hard time even following what is happening, largely because I am trying to skim...
'In the Ruins' is volume six within Kate Elliott's epic series "Crown of stars" that contains 7 books, portraying fantasy fiction at its very best and any reader who enjoys reading this particular genre then i urge you to read Kate Elliott's series. This book i love slightly more than the others ...