Search - Black Sun Rising (Coldfire Trilogy, Bk 1)

This is an excellent book about the struggle between good and evil, and the compromises that fight often provokes. The book is filled with ironies, and subtleties that make it a great read.

Great book. Could use better character developement.

This book (and the trilogy) had a lot of promise: fantasy with a small element of sci fi. (Ok, the sci fi element is a tiny back story about the planet's inhabitants arriving centuries ago via spaceship.)

The reason this book had potential is the interesting way in which magic works -- a bizarre force of nature that reacts to thoughts, dreams, and will power.

The reason the book failed to live up to the potential is the characters: no depth at all. The dialog and *emotion* hardly varied from character to character.

The plot wasn't bad, but I felt it plodded along too much and got stuck on inconsequential details. And personally, with such an interesting system of magic, I expected there to be a lot more of it.

Not a bad read if you're looking for something different, but I don't recommend putting it at the top of your list.

Interesting world building.Not quite Tad Williams, but he's not bad either.