It was pretty much perfect for a traditional single POV epic fantasy adventure.

If you haven't already, read my review of The Red Queen because a lot of the stuff in this review is also true for that one and vice versa.īritain's first book Green Rider was a commercial success. This series is a fascinating example of everything that can go wrong in an epic fantasy series. She enjoys exploring the magical places around her and can often be found paddling a canoe in stillwater, ambling through the woods to mountain summits, or sitting along the rocky shore listening, watching, and daydreaming. Her many years as a park ranger enabled her to work in a variety of natural and historical settings, from 300 feet below the surface of the Earth to 13,000 feet above sea level on the Continental Divide and from the textile mills of the American Industrial Revolution to the homes of Americans who changed the course of history.Ĭurrently she lives in a log cabin in Maine where she writes full time and pursues interests reading, guitar playing, and cartoon illustration, supervised by a cat and a dog. After completing her degree in film production at Ithaca College in 1987 she made the logical (?!) leap from cinema to the National Park Service. She published her first book, a cartoon collection called Horses and Horsepeople, at the age of thirteen. Kristen Britain grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, where she started her first novel - an undersea fantasy featuring herself and her friends - at the age of nine.

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