Melting Stones - Tamora Pierce

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Title: Melting Stones
Author: Tamora Pierce
Genre: Fantasy, YA
Rating: 7/10
# pages: 241
Date read: March, 2009

Summary: Four years have passed since Evvy left the streets of Chammur to begin her training as a stone mage. At fourteen, she's unhappy to be on a new journey with her mentor, prickly green mage Rosethorn, who has been called to the Battle Islands to determine why the plants and animals there are dying. Evvy's job is to listen and learn, but she can't keep quiet and do nothing. With the help of Luvo, the living stone heart of a mountain, Evvy uncovers an important clue. Now, with the island on the brink of disaster, it's up to Evvy to avert the destruction that looms ahead.

Review: This came in the mail yesterday, and though I was technically in the middle of another book at the time, Tamora Pierce is one of my favourite authors, so I couldn't resist the temptation to pick it up instead.

With the exception of The Will of the Empress, the books in the Circle series seem to be targeted towards a younger audience than her Tortall books, and this was no exception - actually I felt it was even more so, as Tamora Pierce here used a first person narrative rather than a third person narrative, and as the main character is quite young (she sounds much younger than her fourteen years of age. I'd have guessed 12'ish), it made it a bit more difficult for me to relate to Evvy.

I did miss Briar, Trisana, Daja and Sandrine though. It seemed wrong not to have any of them around, and I would much have preferred to hear about Briar's and Evvy's experiences in Gyonxe, seeing as those were referred to both here and in TWotE.

So a bit of a disappointment, but not enough that I won't still pick up the sequels, once they become available.

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