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A review by effingunicorns
Cold Fire by Kate Elliott
5.0
I have to preface this with a trigger warning for rape: relatively early in the book, a man gets the main character drunk and then coerces her into having sex with him. It's acknowledged as a bad thing for the man to have done pretty much from the moment Cat starts interacting with other people who know the man better, and the actual intercourse happens off-screen (so to speak), but it's never directly called out as rape and I'm honestly not sure whether the author chose to write it that way or not. If this might be an issue for you, proceed with all due caution.
All that being said, once I started getting into the main part of the story, it was nearly impossible to put down: I'm a huge sucker for politics of the Basic Human Rights sort, and that subject was thoroughly mixed with the other subplots running concurrently. We also learned more about how the world works (dragons and zombies and trolls, oh my!), more about what makes Cat and Bee special, and more about the people themselves who populate this world. As long as it already is, I honestly regretted that it had to end where it did, so I can't recommend this book highly enough.
All that being said, once I started getting into the main part of the story, it was nearly impossible to put down: I'm a huge sucker for politics of the Basic Human Rights sort, and that subject was thoroughly mixed with the other subplots running concurrently. We also learned more about how the world works (dragons and zombies and trolls, oh my!), more about what makes Cat and Bee special, and more about the people themselves who populate this world.