7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Loved this!, April 8 2010
By speakfriend - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Destiny's Star (Mass Market Paperback)
This was a wonderful conclusion to Elizabeth Vaughan's new trilogy. It was also a much-appreciated return to the story line of her Warlord/Warprize trilogy. I had wanted to find out more about the warrior priests, and here Vaughan has begun to answer many of my questions as she both concludes Bethral's and Ezren's tale and returns to Xy and the Plains. And, I look forward to her next book--the story of Heath of Xy and Atira of the Plains.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Part Romance, Part Fantasy, July 22 2010
By Stephanie M. Lorée - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Destiny's Star (Mass Market Paperback)
I've never been a fan of the romance genre, but Elizabeth Vaughan has me hooked with her romantic fantasies. Destiny's Star is Book #3 of her "Star Series" and Vaughan takes us back to the Plains from the "Chronicles of the Warlands Series." Avid readers of her work will find this enjoyable and newcomers will be instantly pulled into her wonderful world.
Destiny's Star is a classic love story about one talespinning guy who can't properly sit a horse, and one warrior girl who's shy with men but not with running them through. Swords, magic, love, war, political intrigue, and an unforgettable setting, you can hardly go wrong. Vaughan kept my attention hooked so that I forgot to eat dinner once her book arrived. Definitely worth the read.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
READ THE WARPRIZE BOOKS FIRST, Mar 16 2011
By A. McKinnon - Published on Amazon.com
NO SPOILERS or plot summaries. This only gets 3 stars because it doesn't keep in line with the rest of this trilogy so far and is too heavily dependent on a different set of books.
This is the third book in this series that starts with Dagger-Star (Star Series, Book 1). I have not yet read the Warprize books- Dagger Star was available on Kindle so I read that and loved it. I have been waiting for the Warprize book 1 to be available and figured I'd be safe reading this series first, because it was supposed to be in the same world but SEPARATE.
This book is not- it overlaps significantly. I know this because I was lost for quite a bit of the book, which was immensely annoying. I'm sure that if you read the other books, then you will LOVE this. But if you haven't, then I recommend reading those and then coming back to this.
Because this story takes place in the Plains, the entire feel of the book is different from the prior two. It was definitely thrilling to spend time with Ezren and Bethral, but the culture was completely different around them. Much of the supporting characters and the plot referenced the other series and the culture of the Plains people was so thick and different that it took time to sort out what on earth was going on. I feel like I missed out on a lot of the payoff of this book.