At least one of the girls turned out to be down with it so that makes it all OK. It makes no sense and I'm fairly positive those kids don't do anything in the 'Dragon Star' trilogy. He'll even rape them if he has to so he can have some prophesied babies. Andry is injecting more pomp and circumstance into the day to day life of the Keep and requires obedience from sunrunners posted abroad and underfoot. The vague religion of Sunrunner Land is beginning to be encoded and enforced in unusual ways. The real threat of this book appears to be Andry and his radical changes within Goddess Keep.

One could argue that their villainy doesn't matter and never did. They act like they've never heard of the concept of teamwork and are too busy backstabbing each other to notice that they're failing to advance their diabolical plots. Rawn handles many things in this series with delicacy, but Mireva and Co. Presumably she'll rub her hands together a lot and throw her head back and laugh at all the fools. 'Sunrunner's Fire' wraps up the storyline of Ianthe's children and the sorceress Mireva's plot to steal the Star Scroll and get lots of money and power. It will be some time before I track down a copy of 'Stronghold'.

I'd be happy if Rawn popped up with a seventh book, but I'd forgotten just how abrupt the ending of this was. It is a blatant lead-in to the next book. Did Rawn's story expand so much after 'Dragon Prince' was released? 'Sunrunner's Fire' was as fun to read as the others, but is not a satisfying end to a trilogy. I'm not sure what made the publishers separate the Sunrunner books into two trilogies.

Sunrunner's Fire by Melanie Rawn