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Cat Barahal and her beloved cousin Bee think they have reached a safe place to shelter. But the Cold Mages who are conspiring to take them prisoner are closing in. The warlord who hopes to conquer all Europa is convinced their destiny is to aid him, whether they want to or not. And the man Cat was forced to marry is back, as vainly arrogant and annoyingly handsome as ever.
Worst of all, as Hallows' Night approaches, powers hidden deep within the spirit world are rising. Cat must seek allies against these threats and figure out who to trust, for if she makes the wrong choices, she'll lose everything.
Only one thing is certain. When Hallows' Night comes the Wild Hunt will ride- and it feeds on mortal blood.
- Sales Rank: #720999 in Books
- Brand: Elliott, Kate
- Published on: 2012-08-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x 1.50" w x 4.25" l, .70 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 672 pages
Review
Praise for Kate Elliott:
"Elliott pulls out all the stops in a wildly imaginative narrative that will ring happy bells for fans of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy."―Publishers Weekly
"Elliott has concocted something very special and original here, with elements to tweak sci-fi and fantasy fans of nearly any stripe, from alt history and steampunk aficionados, to lovers of intrigue, romance, and swashbuckling adventure."―The New York Journal of Books
"The concept got me shivering. . . .the characters, the mysteries, the background history, the cultural complexity, were all so intriguing I couldn't stop reading."―Elizabeth Moon
"Fans of steampunk and alternate history will enjoy this heady mix of magic and technology."―The Library Journal
About the Author
Kate Elliott is the author of more than a dozen novels, including the Novels of the Jaran and, most recently, the Crossroads fantasy series. King's Dragon, the first novel in the Crown of Stars series, was a Nebula Award finalist; The Golden Key (with Melanie Rawn and Jennifer Roberson) was a World Fantasy Award finalist. Born in Oregon, she lives in Hawaii. Find out more about the author at www.kateelliott.com or on twitter @KateElliottSFF.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Good sequel
By Amazon Customer
Great story continuation even though we're thrown into a completely different world. In a market with lots of paranormal, this series is breaking through with a mix of fae and steampunk that is just plain fun and witty.
I do agree with some that the story disappoints a little, but it's more because you get so attached to the characters and that the story is unexpected at times. But I think this is one of those stories you'll remember and want to come back to. I also definitely loved seeing Vai change.
Note: if you keep thinking there isn't enough "action" between our two main characters I suggest you go look up Kate Elliott's "extra chapter 31.5". WARNING: it contains MAJOR adult content. ;)
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Superb middle trilogy volume as exuberant as the series debut
By Liviu C. Suciu
INTRODUCTION: Last year's Cold Magic has been an unexpected hit with me and I have reread it twice this year too, once earlier when I was in the mood for an exuberant read and once a week or so ago, just after I got a copy of Cold Fire, so I could read them back to back. Very high expectations and after a somewhat surprising beginning and some 150 pages that were more of a retread of the action in Cold Magic than what I expected to see in Cold Fire - pages that were engrossing but felt a little repetitive - Cold Fire got into high gear and delivered the story I was looking forward to.
I discussed the world building in detail in my Cold Magic review and the following will contain spoilers for the first installment. Since the two novels are part of one long story and they have the same "feel", I recommend reading Cold Magic before Cold Fire since the odds are high that you will love - or not - both the same way.
OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: While Cold Fire is still a voice novel first and foremost and the exuberant narrator Catherine Bell Barahal aka Cat is back on form trying to navigate the changed situation in which she discovers herself after the revelations of Cold Magic, the structure of the book is quite interesting too.
So far there have been three main aspects: the sociopolitical situation which is at a cusp, the interaction with the spirit world which seems to be out of balance too and the personal saga of Cat with both its romantic and emancipation parts, not to speak her deep personal bond with her cousin Beatrice who is another pivotal character in all three aspects above.
The way Cold Magic ended, it clearly suggested that Cold Fire will continue to follow these three themes with the "big picture" moving center stage and this is why the first 150 pages surprised me since they were partly a retread of events in Cold Magic - though indeed the subtle differences that appear due to the new circumstances make quite a difference and the supernatural rather than the political is thrown into prominence. Then with a little authorial "magic", the novel moves back to the expected channel and from there on it just rolls over 300 pages that I really did not want to end and I would have gladly read another 300.
We get everything we want - the right mix of old and new both in world building and characters, in adventure and romance, not to speak of superb twists and turns and a powerful ending that promises so much for the last trilogy volume. Cold Fire also becomes Andevai's novel too from about halfway on and the arrogant cold mage of the first volume now thrown into a different realm where his kind are lowly "fire banes" and cannon fodder for the powerful local fire mages, disguises himself as - or maybe reverts to - the "simple" worker of his childhood and becomes much more human and likable in the process.
But there is more - pirates, invasion and revolution, powerful mages, a look at the "salt sickness" that threw the world in chaos centuries ago, the simple pleasures of life and family and overall the yearning for "freedom" that most characters have and which is so eloquently expressed by Cat here:
"I want this chain off my tongue, Vai. Just as you want the chains off your village, just as Bee wants to live. I want not to live at the mercy of Four Moons House, or a prince's militia, or the general's schemes. Surely it's the same thing most people want. Health and vigor. A refuge which is not a cage but those who care for us and whom we care for."
Besides the first 150 pages detour - which on balance works well enough, while the stuff in there is interesting in itself though its main point did not justify the time spent getting to it - there was one thing that bothered me, namely the way the people of the Antilles were described to talk which sounded too much like the Victorian description of "native talk" for comfort. After all Cat, Vai and the rest of the European characters do not speak English either, academic or stilted, so the reader and the author share this suspension of disbelief as the book is narrated in English, and making the natives speak "bad English" is not that inspired.
Overall Cold Fire (A++, top 10 novel of 2011 for me) is a remarkable achievement since it expands the universe of the series, ends at a definite point while promising a lot for the last volume, all narrated in the same wonderful exuberant voice that enchanted me so much in Cold Magic.
Note: this review has been first published on Fantasy Book Critic and all links and references are to be found there
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Somewhat disappointed
By E. Smiley
I enjoyed Cold Magic, so much so that I preordered this one. The good news is that it's a fun book and makes for compelling reading. The bad is that the whole book feels like a diversion from the main plot (two books into the trilogy, I'm still not sure what the "main plot" is, actually) and compared to the first book, it's a bit lacking in tension and danger.
The good stuff first: the book is well-paced and interesting throughout. The main characters, Cat, Bee and Andevai, remain interesting and get further development. Cat's voice is still strong--these are books that depend heavily on voice, and pull it off well. For that matter, Cat herself is an engaging and sometimes downright funny character (particularly when drunk, as it turns out). I mostly liked the romance, which is well-written and not cheesy. (On the other hand, the many reversals and counter-reversals in Cat and Andevai's relationship make things a bit hectic, depriving events of some of their emotional impact--and Andevai has gotten much more normal, which does make him a better husband, but dials down the dramatic tension a fair bit.)
This book moves the action to an alternate Caribbean, where the Taino kingdom, dominated by powerful fire mages, has an uneasy peace with a city-state called Expedition (on the island we call Hispaniola, although for obvious reasons it has a different name here). The worldbuilding is fun and inventive, and it's nice just to have a setting that hasn't been done to death. Also, the social movements we saw in alt-Europe in book one are brewing here too, with underground political organizations that bring to mind analogous groups in the real Latin America. But this isn't one of those fantasy societies that exists solely to further the plot; it's fully fleshed-out and feels like a real culture, complete with a sports obsession (specifically, batey--an actual Taino game, as it turns out).
But, despite all of this.... there's the plot. Cold Fire starts out on the wrong foot, the first chapter being a rewrite of the last chapter of Cold Magic, with some details changed, and proceeds for the next 150 pages or so with the characters running around--it feels like the end of Cold Magic got dragged out into Cold Fire, long after the climax was past. Cat then encounters her biological father, who gives her a mission which is meant to lend tension to the next section of the book, but that subplot never really gets off the ground and a great opportunity for drama is handily avoided. And then we get 200 pages of romance, worldbuilding and batey. This book never failed to be interesting, and yet it barely ever achieved the sense of danger and urgency that Cold Magic had throughout. I attribute this in large part to the lack of antagonists--the mansa is absent except for a distance shot in Chapter 1 (version 2.0), and neither Cat's sire nor anyone else in this book can hope to equal him. Finally, it's unclear what any of this has to do with the events of Cold Magic, or what the overall arc of this trilogy even looks like. Cold Fire feels more like a book an author might write after a series is successfully completed, fleshing out tangential events that occurred off-screen in the regular series, than like the middle book of a trilogy.
Despite all that, I will probably still recommend the series (although I prefer Elliott's Crossroads trilogy). It is a fun series with good characters and an intriguing world, and I'm counting on Cold Steel to bring all of this together in some sensible way.
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