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A review by mantrasong
Crown of Shadows by C.S. Friedman
5.0
5 stars - it hit me, hard, and stuck with me.
"I want to read a story featuring a bad guy as a POV character". This is how my relationship with the Coldfire trilogy started. Three books, and almost a decade of my life later, when I pick the series up again for a reading challenge, and I still find myself punched in the gut (in a good way). It's a story about evil, yes, and good. About faith, corruption, and compromise. It's a story about the death of magic, for the intentional dream of progress. Like any good such story, its bittersweet - a fitting wrap up to all the characters, and the loss of something magical in the dream of something more.
"I want to read a story featuring a bad guy as a POV character". This is how my relationship with the Coldfire trilogy started. Three books, and almost a decade of my life later, when I pick the series up again for a reading challenge, and I still find myself punched in the gut (in a good way). It's a story about evil, yes, and good. About faith, corruption, and compromise. It's a story about the death of magic, for the intentional dream of progress. Like any good such story, its bittersweet - a fitting wrap up to all the characters, and the loss of something magical in the dream of something more.