Science Fiction
Crown of Fire
Back of the Book:
Lady Firebird Angelo Caldwell has been sentence to death in absentia for treason, sedition, and heresy. The last thing she expects is a sumons to return home and be confirmed as an heiress of her royal house.
But merciless foes are destroying entire cities on the Federate worlds. These renegaes are trying to wipe out the messianic Caldwell bloodline, and they have almost eradicated the royal Angelos. To help trap an asassin, Firebird agres to wear the heiress's tiara for one day of perilous pageantry.
Still, Firebird's deadliest enemy--the one that can desroy or bereave her--isn't that renegade assassin. Neither is it the despotic regent who hopes to seize the Algelos' throne, nor even the threat of dying in a desparate military strike at the renegades' world.
Unless she can bring her own pride to heel, everything she cherishes will be lost.
My Review:
I should have written about this book the minute I finished it, but I didn't. It's been almost two years. I remember that it was a great book: action-packed, especially near the end, and it does complete the story.
I wasn't too happy with the exact turn of events in the last chapters, but that's because everyone doesn't come out unscathed. I was a little sad, but it worked out OK in the end.
This book was very much like a Star Wars book at the end in that it involved space battles. I thought that was cool.
But if you read the first two, you have to read this one if only to find out what happens.