A Crown for Cold Silver
Ratings7
Average rating3.9
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Ratings7
Average rating3.9
"Twenty years ago, feared general Cobalt Zosia led her five villainous captains and mercenary army into battle, wrestling monsters and toppling an empire. When there were no more titles to win and no more worlds to conquer, she retired and gave up her legend to history. Now the peace she carved for herself has been shattered by the unprovoked slaughter of her village. Seeking bloody vengeance, Zosia heads for battle once more, but to find justice she must confront grudge-bearing enemies, once-loyal allies, and an unknown army that marches under a familiar banner"--
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3 primary booksThe Crimson Empire is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2015 with contributions by Alex Marshall.
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However, despite how interesting the characters are and how absorbing the plot can be, this novel does have a few problems ??? chief of which is the world-building. While I have no problem with authors borrowing from real world cultures to use as the inspiration for countries and cultures of their fantasy worlds, there is a difference between a real world culture inspiring a nation in a fantasy novel, and wholesale lifting of said culture and plopping it into a fantasy world under a different name. The latter, unfortunately, is what appears to be the case with this novel (and, therefore, the rest of the books in the series). To be sure, this makes building the world easier on the author, who can then concentrate on other details such as characterisation and plot, but it is still rather disappointing to pick up a fantasy novel expecting to be transported to another world, and finding, instead, that the world of the novel and the real world are not much different at all.
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