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After both served their sentences, David and Leigh Eddings moved to Denver in 1971, where David found work in a grocery store. Lab-created sapphires will almost always come at a cheaper cost per carat than natural sapphires, as naturally-formed stones are rarer and more sought-after. As for the character relationships - some were predictable, but not in a way that annoyed me, and others were quite surprising. I'll again mention Flute here for reasons that will be obvious once you have read this book. There were some romantic relationships, but I also really liked the portrayal of the friendships between the knights and the parent-childlike relationships between some of the other characters. Mirtai is such a contradiction! Not always deliberately on the author’s part, I think… This bit really got up my nose on this reread though: The Sapphire Rose is the third book in the Elenium series by David Eddings. Even though this is a three book series, it really reads like one book, so I will be reviewing the series as such.

I should probably leave this discussion for Domes of Fire, because there’s not much Mirtai in The Sapphire Rose. As the amount of chromium increases in the corundum, the shade of pink deepens as well. It is important to note that there is often a fine line between what is called a pink sapphire and a red ruby. A sapphire’s hue describes the stone’s balance of color as it relates to its neighbors on the color wheel. With blue sapphires, for example, we would call the stone’s color either blue, slight green, strong green, slight purple, or strong purple.Leibish & Co is another vendor that specialises in rare, high-quality gemstones and jewelry, and is especially good if you’re looking to buy a sapphire. They have some of the most beautiful blue sapphires and sapphire jewelry you will find anywhere. Yes, she's grown up now, and she's the one who decides they're going to married, using her power as queen to ensure it, etc, but that doesn't erase that she made that decision as a vulnerable child. He puts up a token resistance, but he has so much influence over her because of the way he brought her up. They should have been made closer in age, and without that teacher-student dynamic to start it all off, as it's just bad on so many levels.

Sapphire” always refers to stones that vary from violetish blue to slightly greenish blue and it’s primarily the presence of iron and titanium trace elements that produce these beautiful blues. The most valuable colour of sapphire is what is known as the “cornflower blue” or “Kashmir” which is a strong pure blue to violetish blue and sometimes has a velvety look. Any other colour, besides red which would make it a ruby, is considered a fancy sapphire such as yellow sapphire, green sapphire and pink sapphire. Within the fancy sapphire range the rarest and most prized colour is the padparadscha which means “lotus flower” in Sinhalese. The stone is found in Sri Lanka and has a vivid orangey pink to pinkish orange stiking colour which is caused by iron and chromium trace elements or by colour centres. The book definitely brings the series to a satisfying conclusion, but the denouement runs a little long (though, to be fair, getting the denouement the right length is something that lots of writers have problems with). Probably the bigger problem with the book's end is that, approaching the conclusion, it screams, "The writer got the publisher to agree to another trilogy, so he's going to lay some plot hooks for the next one!" Whereas diamonds have an elaborate, standardized color-grading system, sapphires and other colored gemstones have no such similar way to assess color across the board. The problematic elements of this fantasy remain (Eurocentrism, namely), but they don't jump out at you immediately, such is the entertainment provided by this book (and series). Most sapphires on the market today have been heat-treated to improve their clarity and color. (If they’ve not been treated at all, they can be sold for big money.)Lab-created sapphires come from synthetic forms of corundum, used to make synthetic sapphires, and rubies (the other precious gem made from corundum). Since both natural and synthetic sapphires come from the same mineral, lab-created gems are essentially the same as their natural counterpart, with the same visual qualities and hardness. Lab-created sapphires are less expensive, however, due to the reduced rarity and faster creation process.