A review by brucefarrar
The Moon's Shadow by Catherine Asaro

4.0

Asaro continues to successfully spin her her Saga of the Skolian Empire in grand opera style. The stage is vast’ the supernumeraries abundant, and the emotions hit the high notes of suspense and passion. In this eighth installment, seventeen-year old telepathically gifted Jaibriol Qox, willingly takes up the crown that his father so hated and readily abandoned, and becomes emperor of Eube, an empire built on sadism and slavery. He means to change that and broker peace after a horrendous war. He finds among the Highton nobility two unexpected allies, an uncle that he meets for the first time, and the Minister of Finance, a woman that he finds irresistible, even though she’s his great-great-aunt.

Contains: Passion, palace power plots and plays, tension, and after all, how many science fiction stories can you think of that come with genealogical tables?