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published
August 1st 1996
(first published 1995)
by DAW
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Paperback, 528 pages
isbn
0886777178
(isbn13: 9780886777173)
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For more than a millennium now Erna's humans have maintained an uneasy stalemate with the fae-a force of nature which responds to the human psyche, in...more
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Read in June, 2007
recommends it for:
sifi and fantasy readers
Damien and Gerald Tarrant are back in Jaggonath. Shortly after being back Damien has an audience with the Patriarch who disapprova Damien´s actions deeply but doesn´t banish him out the church because he has learned disturbing things about himself and is struggling with problems of his own. In the meantime the demon Calesta has allied with a descendant of Gerald - Andrys Tarrant - who had vowed to destroy Gerald after the demon had murdered his whole family. Damien has to rescue Gerald once ag...more
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This is by far the best series I have ever read. From the start I was a little mixed about the idea of mixing Sci-Fi with my fantasy -although they are my two favorite genre’s and Sci-Fi usually has fantasy mixed in I prefer it to be a one way street.
By the time Damian was in town and the Hunter was introduced I was completely convinced this lady has skills. I enjoyed everything from the basic background elements and the implied and actual politics, down to the actual physics of the magic....more
By the time Damian was in town and the Hunter was introduced I was completely convinced this lady has skills. I enjoyed everything from the basic background elements and the implied and actual politics, down to the actual physics of the magic....more
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This is by far the best series I have ever read. From the start I was a little mixed about the idea of mixing Sci-Fi with my fantasy -although they are my two favorite genre’s and Sci-Fi usually has fantasy mixed in I prefer it to be a one way street.
By the time Damian was in town and the Hunter was introduced I was completely convinced this lady has skills. I enjoyed everything from the basic background elements and the implied and actual politics, down to the actual physics of the magic....more
By the time Damian was in town and the Hunter was introduced I was completely convinced this lady has skills. I enjoyed everything from the basic background elements and the implied and actual politics, down to the actual physics of the magic....more
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When I first finished this, I was a little "WHA???", but this one's had time to settle, and I'm actually really pleased. I mean, I think about the book and I'm happy with the end. I do think she could've/should've written it without going for the cheap emotional shot, but I really really really liked the pleasing tension between that last scene of damien and not!gerald.
I do wish there'd been more or less about Andrys & Lessing - they (andrys, rather) came in late in the tril...more
I do wish there'd been more or less about Andrys & Lessing - they (andrys, rather) came in late in the tril...more
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Todd Hendricks
recommends it for: pretty much anyone who likes fantasy
recommends it for: pretty much anyone who likes fantasy
I was so sad to see this series end, I literally moped for days, wondering if possibly Ms. Friedman would revive the characters of Gerald Tarrant, Damian Kilcannon Vryce and my beloved Hesseth for a fourth book. But despite my yearnings for Erna, I knew that the author knew that she had told her story properly, and that it was time to move on to new worlds and new stories.
From what I have read of her other books, Ms. Friedman does not disappoint.
Still, the Coldfire Trilogy remains one o...more
From what I have read of her other books, Ms. Friedman does not disappoint.
Still, the Coldfire Trilogy remains one o...more
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Friedman is amazing, detail and depth of characters, theme of redemption
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I enjoyed Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy, and do recommend it. While it can be slow at parts, the innovative setting (which crosses fantasy and sci-fi flawlessly) and the interesting characters (Gerald Tarrant in particular) make it worth the effort it sometimes take to read the books.
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Read in October, 2007
FINALLY, I finished the trilogy. Pregancy is rough! I'd sit down to read and within a paragraph was snoozing! So it took me a while, but I got it done. Good fantasy trilogy but anyone who wants to read it will need to have lots of spare time cuz they're kind of long.
My favorite of the three. The ending is worth all the effort of reading the three books.
I'm not sure how Friedman does it. But he makes a bad guy (Tarrant) so darn likable I end up rooting for him through the whole thing.
I'm not sure how Friedman does it. But he makes a bad guy (Tarrant) so darn likable I end up rooting for him through the whole thing.
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Read in July, 2008
This series is apparently big on character death. I really came to enjoy the characters, who you really got to see grow over the series. Totally did not expect the ending to go the way it did though.
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Read in January, 1999
The ending to the series goes a direction you would never expect from the first couple. The climax is truly epic, and I love the idea behind it. Excellent conclusion to the trilogy.
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The first book in the series was great, the second was o.k., the third one was way too...boring? too much of the same thing? I'm not sure but it could have definitely been better.
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Read in January, 1995
recommends it for:
Sci -Fi readers
I really enjoyed this book. It makes you think about the human spirit and what we will sometimes will do weither it is good or bad. This goes for the hole series.
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Convoluted logic, hard to follow,not as good as the first two, but I had to finish it to find out what happened. Disappointingly typical ending.
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not sure what i think of it yet... we'll see when i finish it.
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Read in December, 2007
a stunning conclusion! totally unexpected ending.
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5.0 stars.
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