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Amazing. Beautiful. Exciting. I just don't have the right words to describe how incredible The Crimson Crown was. It was the perfect ending to an epic series.

I think one of my most favorite things about this book is that Chima didn't try to do too much. It seems that, much of the time, authors try to tie up every single loose end at the end of a series, and as a result, all the major plot points are hurried and less than they could've been. Chima's too smart for that, and thank goodness for that. Oh don't worry - all the main questions that had been dogging us for awhile now were answered. But, despite a very perfect ending, you're left feeling that there's still more story to tell. There's still problems and looming tensions. Not everything was tied up in a neat little bow. At the start of the book, there was so much going on - I'm so glad that Chima picked her battles (excuse the pun).

If you have not read The Seven Realms yet, seriously - WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? I hate having to reduce myself to yelling at you, but honestly, you won't find a better high fantasy series out there anywhere.


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The Crimson Crown A Seven Realms Novel Cinda Williams Chima Books Reviews

What an amazing final book to an incredible series! My first thought was to just start over and read it all again, but I will wait a bit and let it all sink in. If there are audios I will get those. Brilliant. These four books are all nearly 600 pages each and tell a wonderful story with many memorable characters, each unique in their own way. Although Raisa and Han had the makings of what they were to become from the beginning, they grew throughout the story and never let me down. One of the things that kept me loving this book was the way the author threw terrible stumbling blocks between these two and events that could not help but make particularly Raisa doubt Han Alister. Almost everyone around her mistrusted him and counseled her against allowing him into her inner circle, and yet she never turned against him. There were times when it appeared that he was as bad as he was portrayed and facts weighed heavily on her. Yet although she waivered, she never stopped having faith in him. She was not blindly in love nor did she every forget or ignore her duty and dedication to her people, but she believed that he was with her in her goals. I really dislike books where one of the main characters distrusts the other, but then again I don't care for it when they are just crazy in love and that is all that matters. This book handled all of this in a way that made me more and more respect and care for both of them. I liked the complexity of the relationships between Raisa and Amon and the one between her and Nightwalker, and especially the very complicated one with Micah. The friendship between Han (who was called Hunts Alone by the clan) and Dancer was wonderfully done, and as the book went on Dancer became a very favorite character, not that I did not like him from the beginning. I loved all of Raisa's inner circle of young friends. At times it was very hard to remember how young all of these people were, but this is fantasy and except for the magic, very close to historical early century life when boy kings won great battles and princesses were married at 14. I lost track of their age many times, but Han is 18 at the end of the book.

I just can't spoil this book by going into the story. It does end in a huge climax, a battle of course, but it is not a simple one. Probably the last 300 pages of the book would be considered the climax and it is an eventful, nerve wracking, tense, wonderful read. As I have mentioned in my reviews of the previous books, there is an underlying story beginning with events of a thousand years earlier and all of this is brought out in this book and I have not wanted to reveal it. The Epilogue was short, unexpected, and beautiful....

A few quotes just as samples of what is in the book

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"Dancer kept his finger lightly on the pulse of magic that permeated rock and dirt and every living thing. As the last of the camp dwellers departed, he felt the rip in the natural fabric that said large numbers of men were approaching. he smelled the blood that would soon be spilled, and tasted unchanneled high magic."

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"I am done with being a fugitive,' Raisa said. 'We are in this fix because we have been splintered as a people since the Breaking. If we all worked together, we would have a chance. I intend to win this thing or die trying. If we can't come together and defeat a flatlander army, then maybe we don't deserve to exist as a sovereign nation."

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"I didn't do it, ' Han said, meeting her gaze. 'It wasn't me.'

'Innocence may not be enough to save you,' Raisa said. She took a breath, released it in a slow shudder. It was happening again - she was falling under the spell of Han Alister. Against all odds,she believed him.

She collected herself, 'I'll give you fair warning - if you are after my throne, you will have a fight on your hands.'

'I don't want your throne.' Han said.

'Then what do you want?' she asked.

'You.'
The Crimson Crown completes Cinda Williams Chima's Seven Realms series in a wonderful, outstanding fashion that makes the reader not only appreciate the book by itself, but the series overall. Queen Raisa and Han Alister, friends and both distant descendants of the infamous Demon King and legendary warrior queen Hanalea, try to bring together the peoples of the Fells in their own ways. Raisa uses politics and her authority as Queen while Han uses his street smarts in an attempt to outmaneuver schemes of several Wizards, however both find themselves stymied or unintentionally ruining the other's plans. Then the mysterious deaths of Wizards on Han's home turf and everything points to him, things start getting really difficult.

As Han attempts to keep his promise to the Clans, gain his revenge on the Bayars, and attempt to win Raisa's hand in marriage he continues to consult his magical mentor Crow, his ancestor Alger Waterlow and infamous Demon King, to learn his secrets and later the true events of a 1,000 years before. Even with all his plans falling apart, Han discovers the lost Armory of the Gifted Kings, only to fall into the hands of the Bayars just afterwards at the same time Fells is betrayed and invaded by Arden. Literally things go from bad to worse for both Raisa and Han, it looks like there will be no happy ending.

However, it was then that Chima showed her talent as a writer as she crafted a believable series of events that resolved the various storylines set up not only in the first half of the book but in the previous three books to a satisfying conclusion not only to the book but the series as well. Not everyone the reader has met survives, not many "villains" get redeemed or die, betrayal by friends or family occur that result in either deaths or lose of trust, and the external enemies are still a threat. It is because the Seven Realms series doesn't end like a fairy tale that makes this book so outstanding, its about how two individuals from different backgrounds were able to confront a 1,000 years of history to be together and start changing their homeland in a lifetime of work.

If you like good fantasy, or good storytelling, or good characters, or all three(!); I recommend this series to readers of all ages.
Amazing. Beautiful. Exciting. I just don't have the right words to describe how incredible The Crimson Crown was. It was the perfect ending to an epic series.

I think one of my most favorite things about this book is that Chima didn't try to do too much. It seems that, much of the time, authors try to tie up every single loose end at the end of a series, and as a result, all the major plot points are hurried and less than they could've been. Chima's too smart for that, and thank goodness for that. Oh don't worry - all the main questions that had been dogging us for awhile now were answered. But, despite a very perfect ending, you're left feeling that there's still more story to tell. There's still problems and looming tensions. Not everything was tied up in a neat little bow. At the start of the book, there was so much going on - I'm so glad that Chima picked her battles (excuse the pun).

If you have not read The Seven Realms yet, seriously - WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? I hate having to reduce myself to yelling at you, but honestly, you won't find a better high fantasy series out there anywhere.