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kblincoln 's review for:
A Feast for Starving Stone
by Beth Cato
Sometimes I read a duology and it feels cut short, or it feels like half of the second book is filler. Not so with Chefs of the Five Gods. This picks up with one of our main POV Solenn having experienced massive trauma in a final confrontation with the Gods Gyst and Hestor.
Our other main POV, Ada, is again working to find her lover and Solenn's main advisor, Erwan as the nations prepare for war.
The story is mature at this point, and Cato gives us adventures aplenty (riding dragons while fighting bad guys with stolen dragon wings, talking to Krakens, requesting dryads carve stone, the observance of the war-dead, etc.) that we can truly get excited about because Solenn is doing amazing things-- she's figuring out a way to still be an Ambassador and Princess despite the brink of war, despite her trauma, despite the magicks of Albion stacked against them.
Ada is still cool, but I savored every scene with Solenn because she find a third path in an either/or war situation by employing her greatest weapon-- compassion.
I wish there was more Camarga action, more Averyone-Solenn banter and relationship building, I wish there was more time for us to see the aftermath of the battles, but also, I feel that Cato packs so much action/emotion into every scene I wouldn't want that diluted.
And then there's the food. As I said in the the review of the first book in this series, if you didn't follow Cato's blog and don't know about her many baking recipes and obsession with cheese, its your loss :)
Our other main POV, Ada, is again working to find her lover and Solenn's main advisor, Erwan as the nations prepare for war.
The story is mature at this point, and Cato gives us adventures aplenty (riding dragons while fighting bad guys with stolen dragon wings, talking to Krakens, requesting dryads carve stone, the observance of the war-dead, etc.) that we can truly get excited about because Solenn is doing amazing things-- she's figuring out a way to still be an Ambassador and Princess despite the brink of war, despite her trauma, despite the magicks of Albion stacked against them.
Ada is still cool, but I savored every scene with Solenn because she find a third path in an either/or war situation by employing her greatest weapon-- compassion.
I wish there was more Camarga action, more Averyone-Solenn banter and relationship building, I wish there was more time for us to see the aftermath of the battles, but also, I feel that Cato packs so much action/emotion into every scene I wouldn't want that diluted.
And then there's the food. As I said in the the review of the first book in this series, if you didn't follow Cato's blog and don't know about her many baking recipes and obsession with cheese, its your loss :)