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I feel like this author is a hit-and-miss, and Brightly Burning walked a line between the two. The beginning was a little slow and it took a long time for the story to seem to move, but you spend that time getting to learn about Lavan and sympathize with his emotional state and how his life got turned around. Things begin to pick up afterwards, though towards the end it startles to muddle every so slightly once more.

Some spoilers in this paragraph, read at your own discretion. The characters themselves seem to be all over the place. I lost my respect for Healers in this one. One character was blindly in love with Lavan despite it being impossible for him to return her feelings because he was lifebonded to his Companion, and no matter how often she was told such or how right-before-her-eyes the evidence of this was, she kept pursuing it to the point where it was upsetting herself and Lavan. Then another Healer (the mother of the blindly-in-love one) starts off as this rational person, but when her husband gets attacked and blinded she turns into this hysterical mess who blames herself that she can't heal him right then and there. It was just annoying. I wasn't too fond of the royalty in this book either. Thankfully the rest of the characters were better written, so those were the only real blights in my enjoyment.


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Brightly Burning Gollancz Mercedes Lackey 9780575072961 Books Reviews

Really loved this book. Great story of Valdemar.
I must have read this story a hundred times, yet it never gets old. I highly recommend it to any fan of the series and more, any fan of great fantasy. There are few true works of epic proportions. To me Tolkein is king of the truly epic story. So using him as a basis to judge by, i would have to class the Valdemarian series as also in the category of true epicness.
Oh My.......An intense story line that I happily followed. I could not put it down
i read this story in my early teens and over the years ivve thought back to it and re-read it. this story faces the problem of bullying at its worse and i felt a connection to it and undrstood the main characters feelings. the story is well built ad filled with a wondrous yet sad story that always makes me cry. i think its her best work and should be part of our schools. please give this book a chance an read it.
I will be completely honest, I absolutely adore this series. Mercedes lackey is an amazing writer who can capture young adults and older adults with the same child like glee as they delve into this fascinating world. And this book is one of the best she is not afraid to touch on controversial subjects or shy away from things other writers might in an attempt to appeal to a wider audience, but by not hiding from these things she makes an even better experience than other popular writers. And I recommend this book and the rest of the series to anyone and everyone.
I've read the entire series multiple times, and I have to say that Brightly Burning is my least favorite. It makes me wonder if other reviewers have read some of Lackey's much better other Valdemar works.

For one, the story of Lavan Firestarter - clearly such a focal point in Heraldic lore - would seem to me to need at least two novels to really tell it. Brightly Burning seems shallow and under-developed. I can't get myself to believe in his character. Things happen far too quickly without enough development in the middle.

For another, there's a considerable amount of telling rather than showing. Satiran just announces that Lavan and Kalira are lifebonded? Even if I could let that go as a poorly written scene - there are no concerns from the Heraldic Circle and their Companions about such an odd pairing? And the relationship between Lavan and Kalira seems trite - there are none of the unique undertones that Lackey has shown with some of the better pairs, such as Alberich & Kantor or Vanyel & Yfandes. Even Talia and Rolan have a more solidly developed relationship - and they can't "talk" to each other.

Also, what's the deal with young Herald-Trainee Malken, who clearly ForeSees Lavan's firestorm, but then disappears entirely from the story?

Then there's referring to Lavan's gift as a "dragon"? Lackey has described magical/Heraldic gifts far better.

All-in-all, this reads like an unfinished draft with a significant number of chapters missing from it. It's like a rough outline that still needs to be filled in appropriately.
Taking a trip to the land of Valdemar via one of Lacky's books is a real pleasure, and such was the case this time as well, even though I knew from the start (having read many other stories in this 'Verse) that the story would end in a glorious tragedy for the main characters. Valdemar is a land that never seems to develop technology and science much, likely because some people have magic, mind powers, and specially skilled "spirit animals" like Companions and Firecats and Bond Birds instead...so you can pick up any book in a series of stories that covers about 2000 years of Valdmaran "history" and still find the same horses-and-swords character driven fantasy adventure stories. I like the Valdemaran principle that "there is no one right way" at the foundations of their governance...and could see where such a thing could be a real boon in the real world.
I feel like this author is a hit-and-miss, and Brightly Burning walked a line between the two. The beginning was a little slow and it took a long time for the story to seem to move, but you spend that time getting to learn about Lavan and sympathize with his emotional state and how his life got turned around. Things begin to pick up afterwards, though towards the end it startles to muddle every so slightly once more.

Some spoilers in this paragraph, read at your own discretion. The characters themselves seem to be all over the place. I lost my respect for Healers in this one. One character was blindly in love with Lavan despite it being impossible for him to return her feelings because he was lifebonded to his Companion, and no matter how often she was told such or how right-before-her-eyes the evidence of this was, she kept pursuing it to the point where it was upsetting herself and Lavan. Then another Healer (the mother of the blindly-in-love one) starts off as this rational person, but when her husband gets attacked and blinded she turns into this hysterical mess who blames herself that she can't heal him right then and there. It was just annoying. I wasn't too fond of the royalty in this book either. Thankfully the rest of the characters were better written, so those were the only real blights in my enjoyment.