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Title	:	Crown of Shadows (The Coldfire Trilogy #3)
Author	:	C.S. Friedman
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 525 pages
Published	:	August 1st 1996 by DAW (first published October 1995)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction. Dark Fantasy

Crown of Shadows (The Coldfire Trilogy #3) Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 525 pages

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Crown of Shadows; Or: Sorry, Priest, He's Just Not That Into You (Because He's an Undead Vampire and also Heterosexual.)

all the standards established by the prior two novels are in place for the grand finale of this fitfully entertaining trilogy.

at times amazing ideas and a compellingly realized world? check!

fascinating 200 page novel filled with those amazing ideas but force-fed nonsense until it bloats into a 500+ page novel? check!

all the things a goth teenager would love in a genre novel: romantic despair, romantic nihilism, an actual romance that is probably doomed, dark forests, an evil albino, devious godlings, heavy-breathing religiosity, warped obsessions, and a super-sized amount of melancholy? check!

eye-rolling and clichéd lines like "he could get lost in her eyes forever" delivered on an upsettingly regular basis? check!

a tedious pair of lovers who moon about their doomed love and their terrible pasts but don't end up doing a lot besides whining? check!
okay, this pair was new to this novel. but they sure fit right in.

supposedly heterosexual male protagonist who is, uncomfortably, the female author's stand-in... which gives his over-the-top obsession with the novel's Dangerous Undead Vampire Stud a decidedly strange, inexplicably homoerotic vibe? check!

a disturbing and eventually offensive authorial obsession with the Dangerous Undead Vampire Stud, one that romanticizes the character and one that simply must give him some kind of happy ending, despite this also being a character who has tortured and killed perhaps thousands of women and who in the opening pages slaughters an entire family for the stupidest of reasons? check!

perhaps the author's next project can be about that sexy bad boy Ted Bundy and the whiny priest who loves him against all odds. she already has the template ready to go.

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Original Title:	Crown of Shadows
ISBN:	0886777178 (ISBN13: 9780886777173)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Coldfire Trilogy #3

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Oddly for a third book in a series I'd been enjoying, I had trouble getting into and through this volume. I found the plot somewhat preposterous, with digressions to new plotlines and characters that I cared little for. It felt like the beats that Friedman planned for Damien and Tarrant weren't enough to sustain a full novel, so there was this whole other thing going on that didn't connect to the main action until late in the book...But more than that, my big disappointments: Friedman did some

++SPOILERS++5 stars.This is the third, last and best book of the series.There were aspects that I didn't like due to personal perference of content and not writing, but I cannot in good faith, lower the stars because of that.The writing:Technically speaking was excellent. The beginning drew me right in and kept me on the edge of my seat throughout the entire 500+ pages. There was good conflict from start to finish which kept the pace steady. I did not skim. I felt connected to all the characters

Clearly the best of the trilogy. Pretty much no filler, and engaging from beginning to end.

The final book in this trilogy is a kind of mixed bag. The bits of Tarrant's history that are revealed, the Church lore, everything about Vryce and Tarrant's interactions, the revelations about the fae, the resolution of the plot - it was all great pay-off and I loved it. But it was interspersed with bits about one of Tarrant's descendants and about the Church's Patriarch that bored me to tears and that I now skip every time I re-read it. The key there is "every time I re-read it," which is

Oddly for a third book in a series I'd been enjoying, I had trouble getting into and through this volume. I found the plot somewhat preposterous, with digressions to new plotlines and characters that I cared little for. It felt like the beats that Friedman planned for Damien and Tarrant weren't enough to sustain a full novel, so there was this whole other thing going on that didn't connect to the main action until late in the book...But more than that, my big disappointments: Friedman did some

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.

The story of Damien Vryce, the knight/priest of the One God, and Gerald Tarrant, the founder of Vryce's church who sold his soul for immortality, comes to a satisfying ending. These companions, who have become friends (due to their working together in common interests in the previous books) despite the fact that they should be mortal enemies, along with the help of Karril work to stop Calesta from dooming humankind on Erna. While this is all happening, the Patriarch leads Tarrant's only