A review by ceuran
Balefire by Cate Tiernan

4.0

Let me tell you this flat-out right now. If you base this series off of the first book, you will never like it. The first book pretty much just felt like an outline so you could get a feel for all of the characters and the world that they lived in.

But read past the first book... And are you ever in for a ride. While the romance in this book was definitely annoying at times, I really liked this onimbus. The Balefire series works so much better as a bind up than four separate books. The story flows so effortlessly from novel to novel.

But it's the romance and the slowness of the first book that's keeping me from rating this a full 5/5 stars.