A review by siria
Cold Steel by Kate Elliott

3.0

The pacing was wildly uneven and a better editor would have whittled this book down by at least a hundred pages, improving both the dialogue and the prose. (Did we need so many descriptions of Vai's clothing, of Cat doing Vai's laundry, of the fabric of Vai's dash jackets? We did not. It started to feel as if Elliott had mistaken clothing descriptions for characterisation.) Both as a book and as a conclusion to a trilogy, I liked Cold Steel well enough, but didn't love it, which I suppose must be my conclusion for the trilogy as a whole. I think Elliott is the kind of author whose books I'd like well enough to check out if I spotted them in the library, but not enough to buy.