The Blue Star is a jarring, unsettling novel dominated with political and religious Game of Thrones type intrigues and with a layered and twisted plot that does not read like modern fantasy. The world is an impressive, complex build. The characters are flawed, many unlikeable, but some, like Lalette, are sympathetic and endearing. The relations between characters contain all the sexism and misogyny of the renaissance era, similar to the social reality of the time of Moll Flander. But have hope, the main characters gradually grow beyond their shallow, selfish roots.

The author respects the reader to be of their own mind and does not tell the reader how to react to one scene or another. Does the author need to tell you to cheer when, after the fourth rape, Lalette sends her assailant to the bottom of the ocean? Or to laugh at the ironic justice of the unfaithful thrall being poisoned and robbed of his plunder by another witch?

The book contains all evils: rape, poisonings, murders, theft, infidelity and is not suitable for everyone but is most suitable for those who enjoy books about revolution and political intrigue.