A review by caomhghin
Crystal Crowned by Elise Kova

2.0

Disappointing to the end. It is actually rather fascinating the way this series deteriorates. The limited universe and character set are fine in a limited setting but soon get out of hand as the scope of the setting expands. The plot jerks about from episode to episode with killing off a favourite character seemingly the major used for doing this. Rather comically one character gets killed only to reappear with a ludicrously improbable story of survival. The universe is confused with magic everywhere and nowhere, an early Medieval economy with cheques and banks. The social setting is weird - hopelessly unequal and hierarchical with almost no servants in sight. Sometimes magic is huge while at other times it's almost trivial. If you can stop a hurricane what's to stop you blowing down a city wall. But the idea doesn't seem to arise. And so it continues to the final volume.
That said this volume's plot is worse than most.