D's Reviews > Corambis

It's been a long journey of four books and we get another ugly cover--I don't know what Ace Books was thinking and what kind of audience they were aiming for in those covers, but it's honestly so unfortunate.

Anyway, after all the murders and the exile and whatever wrong things that would happen to Felix and Mildmay, we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. It's a gradual thing, but they talk to each other more, they make an effort not to hurt each other even if they can, and Felix is starting to forgive himself.

Having Felix and Kay Brightmore as bookends, if you will, works perfectly: they are both 'monsters' and have hurt people, each in their own way and for their own reasons, and they're also both looking for their own reasons to live.

Which is how stories work and labyrinths also: you do have to go through the thorny bits to be able to get out.