A review by xeni
The Golden Key by Melanie Rawn, Kate Elliott, Jennifer Roberson

5.0

This is a wonderfully long and intense novel which follows one country through centuries in the perspective of a painter. I loved how Melanie Rawn used a "flawed", i.e. corrupted, main character to tell her story from. It definitely was a wonderful change from most stories (where the main character needs to defeat that bad guy). It does, though, lead the reader to sympathize with the main character a bit more than you would usually with the villain.


I still love reading this novel, even after many many reads. The story never grows old, the characters are all full and the plot is wonderfully thought out.

You can definitely tell that Rawn spent many years putting together this literary masterpiece.