Ascendant Sun

Meh, I dislike how this book treats Enslaved Folks. It really brought home for me how uncomfortable the portrayal of Enslaved Folks in this feels not just in this particular book but in this series a whole. I think it's more obvious in this book because of the experiences of Kelric. Enslaved Folks as a......more

3.5/5 [URL not allowed] Un nouveau tome, un nouveau frère. Encore une fois un tome plus ou moins indépendant des précédents, même si celui ci se rapproche plus du T2 et de l’intrigue principale que le précédent. Il est a noter aussi que ce tome est en fait la suite d’un autre, no......more

Hearing that Kelric was going to end up as a provider I kept thinking, hasn't the man suffered enough? I liked how everything ended up working but I so wanted him to realize that Jaibriol III is Saus's son.......more

Ascendant Sun (2000) 365 pages by Catherine Asaro. Kelric crash landed on Coba 18 years ago (story told in The Last Hawk) with no contact with outside civilization and presumed dead for all that time. He escapes Coba and arrives on the planet of Edgewhirl to find that the Allieds have a major presenc......more

I keep working through Catherine Asaro’s SKOLIAN EMPIRE series. I keep expecting to love the next book, but here I am on book five and it’s still not working for me. Ascendant Sun is a sequel to The Radiant Seas and a direct sequel to The Last Hawk which, frankly, I didn’t like. The Last Hawk was abo......more