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Blue Flame: Book One of the Perfect Fire Trilogy

by K. M. Grant

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Because I loved "The Blood Red Horse," etc., I was looking forward to the "Blue Flame." However, I didn't even finish this book. It's too bad, because the historical period is interesting and the main characters are compelling YA characters. The major flaw of this book is that the "Blue Flame" is a character that interjects thoughts and feelings in the first person into the third person narrative book. These are not set off in the text in any way, but sometimes appear within a third person paragraph. I find this jarring and confusing, and I am a relatively sophisticated reader. ( )
1 vote WillaCather | Feb 13, 2010 |
There wasn't really a most compelling part. I only read a little and wasn't drawn in to read it. The plot was moving slow, the characters wer confusing, it was boring. AHS/KG
  edspicer | Jan 29, 2010 |
Not a bad read, but this story of a mysterious blue flame, it's protector and Cathar persecution didn't really excite me. ( )
  wyvernfriend | Jun 10, 2009 |
The first book of a new Trilogy... this follows a time in England after Richard the Lionheart is murdered. The Blue Flame is a legend that exists and the man who has been hiding it is found by a young man and woman, one of Cathar blood, the other of Christian and royal, respectively. There is an introduction of an inquisition in this land and the boy is pursued while the young woman is sought after by a knight from France. ( )
  knielsen83 | Mar 5, 2009 |
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 080279694X, Hardcover)

Many years have passed since the Occitanian knights killed Richard the Lionheart in a courageous battle to keep the Blue Flame--sparked at the moment of Christ’s death--from falling into the wrong hands. Now it is in danger once again, as enemies from the north draw near. In the midst of this looming battle, lifelong friends Raimon, son of a Cathar weaver, and Yolanda, daughter of a Catholic Count, are falling in love. But a new religious crusade is about to begin, setting boy against girl, family against family, neighbor against neighbor, south against north. Though many seek to possess the Blue Flame, only one person is destined to wield its power to save the people and the sovereignty of the Occitan.

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In 1242 in the restive Languedoc region of France, Parsifal, having been charged as a child to guard an important religious relic, has lived in hiding for much of his life until he befriends a young couple on opposite sides of the escalating conflict between the Catholics and the Cathars.… (more)

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