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Crown of Shadows by C. S. Friedman
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Crown of Shadows

by C. S. Friedman

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I very solid wrap up to the series as a whole. I didn't really like the new priest that much, but I enjoyed the Hunter's family. Probably still have the soft spot for the original, but ya know. ( )
Isamoor | May 11, 2009 |  
This one capstones the series. The Middle book was just a page holder until you could see the finale. Again-- the same issues and edges-- but now the characters wrestle with the final choices and redemption. ( )
Caragen87 | Dec 28, 2008 |  
Please see my "Black Sun Rising" review for my thoughts on the series. ( )
Nekosohana | Mar 6, 2008 |  
In this final installment of the Coldfire Trilogy, I finally felt like Friedman took the genius of the world she created to its fullest potential. While the originality and depth of Friedman's Erna is obvious from the beginning of the trilogy, I often found the first two books, especially When True Night Falls, becoming repetitive, predictable, and towards the end, rushed. Crown of Shadows redeemed this series for me, filling out the rest of a dark commentary, and doing so in a way that brought multiple story-lines together without relying on icky exposition and without cheapening the characters the reader has become so engrossed in. While I had my doubts about Coldfire along the way, ultimately it was worth the read, and I'd recommend it to other fantasy fans. ( )
philosojerk | Dec 9, 2007 |  
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For Nancy Friedman
Because the only thing better than hanging fifty feet over a smoking volcano with nothing but a think sheet of plastic between you and it--with a pilot whose idea of fun is to tip the helicopter over on its side without warning and cheerily yell, "Don't worry, you won't fall out!"--is having someone to share that with.
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For more than a millennium now Erna's humans have maintained an uneasy stalemate with the fae-a force of nature which responds to the human psyche, indiscriminately bringing to life a person's more treasured dreams or hideous nightmares-with adepts and sorcerers working for their own profit while the demonic creatures who feed upon such efforts rapidly gain in power and ambition. Now one of these demons, a Iezu called Calesta, has declared war on all of mankind. Master of Illusion, devourer of pain, Calesta plans to remake the human species until mankind exists only to sate his unquenchable thirst for suffering, and omens of his triumph are already apparent. Even the Church of the One God seems to be in danger, the souls of its faithful corrupted by a demon whose very essence is sadism. Only Damien Vryce, warrior-priest of the One God, and his unlikely ally, the undead sorcerer Gerald Tarrent stand between Calesta and his triumph. Nothing short of the demon's absolute destruction will save mankind from his unholy influence. But no one on Erna is certain just what the Iezu really are, and no man has ever succeeded in killing one. Faced with an enemy who may prove invulnerable-pitted against not only Calesta, but the leaders of the Church and the Hunter's last descendant-Damien and Tarrent must risk everything in a war that will take them from the depths of Hell to the birthplace of demons and beyond in a battle which could cost them not only their lives, but the very soul of all mankind.

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