A review by kittenscribble
Child of Flame by Alis A. Rasmussen, Kate Elliott

4.0

Fantasy, fourth in the Crown of Stars series. A vast improvement over the first three. Elliott, though blessed with superlative world-building skills, tended to bore by doling out history disguised as monologues. This book tells instead of showing, by thrusting one of the characters into the distant past to experience the cataclysmic events that caused the conflicts of the present. Meanwhile, the ongoing war for succession continues amidst magic, treachery, and multilayered politicking. Brilliant, gripping; totally worth slogging through the first three volumes. I mean it.