Review: She has a way with characters...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 10, 2014
Maelstrom continues the Sacred Breath series in fine style... The character development plays out crisply and most entertainingly. This writer has an amazing talent for bringing a character's personality to vivid life through internal and spoken dialog.  There is dialog in this book that elicited out loud guffaws at 3am!  (I ended up reading the next few chapters on the couch...) And the plot timing is exquisite.  The story has one going from breath stopping immersion in pitched battles to outrageous comic relief that doesn't feel forced at all.  Some of the lines that come out of N.S.'s head through her character's mouths are little treasures that will have you smiling, shaking your head and thinking WTH?!?!  If you've ever had a lovably outrageous person in your life... You'll relate to Visola, Vachlan and Taranis with pleasure.  This is book 6 of a really fine series whose writer gets better and better at her craft.  Even better... The price point is in the sweet spot to make buying or giving this entire series easy.