A review by nigellicus
The Burning Stone by Kate Elliott

adventurous challenging funny tense

5.0

This starts out - well, about two hundred pages in, I think, but it's an eight hundred page book - bringing together threads from the previous volumes to create a credibly intractable knot of conflicts, loyalties, passions, obligations and enmities which shape the various storylines that follow as much as the plot does, then it all goes rocketing off to battles, tragedies, bad marriages, forbidden unions, religious zealotry, magic-learning, magical conspiracies and dark secrets and hidden heritages revealed. Yes, there's a lot and it's still only the third volume in a seven volume series.