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lizshayne 's review for:
Cold-Forged Flame
by Marie Brennan
Novell(a|ette) is the perfect length for this story. The unexplainedness would have buckled under a longer book, but the amount of time it took to make sense (and the amount of time the reader was kept in suspense) worked out just right.
On the other hand, it felt almost like a long prologue to a story ahead. (Fran Wilde's Jewel and Her Lapidary struck me the same way). So while the it wrapped up neatly at the end, the part of my brain that spends too much time reading long novels was saying "Wait, that's it!?"
On the other hand, it felt almost like a long prologue to a story ahead. (Fran Wilde's Jewel and Her Lapidary struck me the same way). So while the it wrapped up neatly at the end, the part of my brain that spends too much time reading long novels was saying "Wait, that's it!?"