Rating: 
Summary: Great Book
Review: Like the first book of this series, this is about good vs evil with the two bound together for their own reasons. The conflict engendered by this is extremely interesting. The only reason I gave this four stars instead of five, was that I think it runs a tad long. This is the third time I've read the book, so maybe I'm just getting overly familiar with it. But, I'd say a lot of the "wandering in the wilderness" parts of it could be trimmed a bit. Other than that, great.
Rating: 
Summary: Addictive!!
Review: My mother and a friend had been on my case for YEARS to read these books, and I never did until this summer. Now - I regret waiting that long! The book will make you laugh, cry, mad, happy, anxious, and so many more things! You can spend HOURS reading and think nothing of it! It DOES take a little bit to get into it in the beginning. There is a lengthy introduction to a couple of the main characters... But it makes it that much better throughout the rest of the book! Once it gets going, it was all I thought about and every spare minute I had the book was in my hands! I'm reading #2 right now and can already see it building up again and can't WAIT to see where this journey takes me!!
Rating:
Summary: Addictive!!
Review: My mother and a friend had been on my case for YEARS to read these books, and I never did until this summer. Now - I regret waiting that long! The book will make you laugh, cry, mad, happy, anxious, and so many more things! You can spend HOURS reading and think nothing of it! It DOES take a little bit to get into it in the beginning. There is a lengthy introduction to a couple of the main characters... But it makes it that much better throughout the rest of the book! Once it gets going, it was all I thought about and every spare minute I had the book was in my hands! I'm reading #2 right now and can already see it building up again and can't WAIT to see where this journey takes me!!
Rating: 
Summary: Skip this one. Nothing happens anyway.
Review: Not just the weak link in the trilogy, it's the missing link. The Damien and the hunter wander all over the land trying to find the bad guy. They finally reach his headquarters only to find that he has moved on ahead of them. This is a wild goose chase, not a story! Along the way, there are endless descriptions of the terrain and some folks die. And Damien still makes speeches disapproving of the Hunter, like he can't get over it by now ... ? This book doesn't advance the story line, deepen the characters' relationships, or reveal secrets. It just counts sheep.
Rating: 
Summary: 617 page wild-goose chase
Review: Overall I'm hooked on this series, I will buy the third book. But I hope this was the weakest of the three. A few things which bother me. Throughout most of the book, the heroes are wanted dead, dead on sight. But for some reason that changes to "capture" just before they are captured, even though there is no reason for their enemy to spare them. The demon Karril insists he is prevented from helping them, as if there is a binding preventing him from speaking, then he spills his guts and helps them. And it always bothers me when characters get out of a tight spot by discovering a new ability. The descriptions can run too long, which is made even worse when they are long and incomplete ... like not telling us how big an area is, but describing its furnishings in detail. Supposedly the fae can't be used at sea, then we find out it CAN be used in shallow water, but they still don't use it. The fae is conveniently flawed or omnipotent depending on what the story requires. I will pick up the third in the series to see how it works out. With all its flaws, I still enjoy the characters, their interaction, and Friedman's habit of killing off characters who seem to be main characters. Too often in Fantasy, there is no fear that a main character will die in the course of battle. In the Coldfire Trilogy you never know.
Rating:
Summary: Not as good as "Black Sun Rising"
Review: Overall, "When True Night Falls" is not a bad follow-up to "Black Sun Rising," the first volume of The Coldfire Trilogy. This novel is more plot-driven that its predecessor, and thus lacks the emotional and psychological intensity of the earlier book. Also, the plot was simply not as lucid as "Black Sun," crossing the boundary of 'inventive' into the world of just 'weird'--a shift that is completed in the concluding volume of the trilogy, "Crown of Shadows." Worth reading as the sequel to a truly great sci-fi novel, but that's about all. If you MUST have closure, read this whole trilogy; if you are simply interested in reading a brilliant novel, stop after the first book
Rating:
Summary: Not as good as "Black Sun Rising"
Review: Overall, "When True Night Falls" is not a bad follow-up to "Black Sun Rising," the first volume of The Coldfire Trilogy. This novel is more plot-driven that its predecessor, and thus lacks the emotional and psychological intensity of the earlier book. Also, the plot was simply not as lucid as "Black Sun," crossing the boundary of 'inventive' into the world of just 'weird'--a shift that is completed in the concluding volume of the trilogy, "Crown of Shadows." Worth reading as the sequel to a truly great sci-fi novel, but that's about all. If you MUST have closure, read this whole trilogy; if you are simply interested in reading a brilliant novel, stop after the first book
Rating:
Summary: One of the best series I have ever read!
Review: The coldfire trilogy is one of the best series I have ever read. And I have read thousands of sci fi and fantasy books over more than a quarter century. Five stars all the way! Be sure to check out the rest of her books too. Without exception they have all been unlike anything else I've read. It's refreshing to read truly original works!
Rating:
Summary: the perfect blend of fantasy and the hint of horror
Review: the perfect matchup, when damien and the hunter meet sparks fly which make it even better and more suprising when you wonder what the outcome will be when they got to watch each others back. the question of friend or foe will definately arise. priest v.s. ruthless killer. but they have to team up what will happen when their quest is over???
Rating:
Summary: A series worth reading!
Review: This book is the second in the Coldfire trilogy and is absolutely essential if you're looking for the "whole picture". These characters are alive. You can believe in them and feel their conficts as your own.
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