Let's hope Sebastian comes back to the excitement she found in Ash Princess for her final installment. And when we get to the end, the expected battle, readers are also watching from a distance.
It's so much better to show than tell, and it adds an immediacy for the reader. The rest should have been shown this way to pull the story forward. Many of this commentary feels redundant, as it's shown through the actions of the characters. Lady Smoke is also slowed down by its main character's lengthy reflections. When she gets out among her people in the refugee camps, she's moved to action, but so slowly that the reader will know what the plan should have been a whole lot sooner. Theo sits in a foreign palace not wanting to get married for hundreds of pages. This sophomore effort of author Laura Sebastian falls into all the sequel traps, the worst being a long wait to the final action. With far too much reflection and dialogue and far too little immediate action, this sequel fails to maintain the same visceral, absorbing energy as the first book. Series: Ash Princess Book Three Length: 465 pages My Rating: 4.25 out of 5 stars Amazon Book Depository Young adult fantasy fiction author Laura Sebastian brings her debut series to a close in a big way with Ember Queen, the excellent and exciting conclusion to the Ash Princess trilogy.
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