The story thunders along to the inevitable confrontation but with a few twists, turns and tears along the way. The dragon brings a new dimension to the "Deverry" tale and the relationship between Rhodry and the dragon is quite entertaining!

Although she has a tendency to copy word for word descriptions of people/places from earlier books, this only becomes obvious when all four books are read "on the bounce" and does not detract in any way from the story.

For anyone who has not read Katherine Kerr - I personally would highly recommend her. However, I would suggest that the reader starts at the beginning, ie; "Daggerspell". Although not entirely essential, there are many references to the tales told in the first series and without this prior knowledge I think some level of enjoyment/understanding would be lacking.

Overall Katherine Kerr certainly rates in my "Top 5" fantasy fiction authors and the Westlands Cycle and "A Time for Justice" do not disappoint.