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Author: Tamora Pierce
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Release Date: 2008-10-01
Reading Level: Young Adult
ISBN-10: 0545052645
ISBN-13: 9780545052641
List Price: $17.99
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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.
Dissappointing
| Customer Rating: | I've been a fan of Tamora Pierce for a Very, Very long time. I would even credit her with my love of reading, since I didn't like to read before I picked up her Immortal series. But this book was horrid! It was predictable, boring, mean, and just plan bad! I love Tamora don't get me wrong, but if her books continue this trend, I may be borrowing them from the library rather than buying them.
I'm sorry TP but you've done MUCH better. |
ok
| Customer Rating: | | The book is in great condition and I am very pleased with it. However it took forever for it to arrive. Always when I've ordered used books they came in within a week not two and a half. I'm not saying it did not come in within the time period amazon predicted, but it was cutting it very close. |
An enjoyable venture into the realization that we must work with nature in order to enjoy living with it
| Customer Rating: | Author Tamora Pierce is notable for stretching the possibility of just about everything while serving up a great adventure at the same time. She does not disappoint with her new title, MELTING STONES, where the experiences of 14-year-old Evvy, stone-mage-in-training, attempt to teach her to trust people --- not all people, but some. Her hectic life as a young slave sold by her mother in the land of Yanjing and then as an orphan surviving on her own have made Evvy somewhat crispy around the edges. Her friends of intentional choice are cats and, of course, stones and rocks of all shapes, sizes and kinds.
Evvy's life of beatings, deprivation and war has given her a temper along with her distrust of people. Her inability to rein in her desire to pummel anybody who challenges her continually causes trouble. Beating a group of other trainee mages at Winding Circle Temple has placed her in the position of either sailing across the sea (which she hates) to a distressed island or being punished at Winding Circle. Her guardian Rosethorn thinks Evvy might come in handy, so she is a passenger on the ship before she knows it.
As a stone mage, Evvy has the power to communicate, understand, and use rocks for purposes such as stopping a giant boulder in mid-air before it smashes her and her companions. Her talents reach beyond the fanciful as she is also empowered with a special trance ability, which allows her to send her spirit deep into the levels of the earth accessible only to stone mages. Evvy uses this soul-draining talent to help those in need when she accompanies Dedicate Rosethorn and Dedicate Myrrhtide (whom Evvy has nicknamed "Dedicate Fusspot" because his nitpicking annoys her) on a mission to rescue the dying plants and waters on the island of Starns.
Evvy isn't aware that she will be the one mage to whom island residents turn for help. Her problem with being a stone mage is that she doesn't appreciate people enough to save them from anything. For all she cares, a few less meeting-holding, talk-too-much "meat creatures" disguised as humans would suit her just fine. As long as she has rocks to collect and draw strength, power and knowledge from, she doesn't need people.
Pierce's choice to write Evvy's story in first person may disconcert the traditional reader who thinks fiction should be an omniscient, vicarious experience. But in the compulsive turn of a few pages, anyone will be captivated by the mystery and the cheeky young mage. Sharp-tongued and endowed with a dry wit, she is accompanied by a great friend and teacher, who is also another stretch of the imagination. Luvo, the "heart of a mountain," is a wisdom-spouting guru sort of character carried around in a cloth sling. He can walk, but his legs are too stumpy to get anywhere quickly, so Evvy carries him over her shoulder. Luvo is the talking rock equivalent of Jedi Master Yoda as he tempers Evvy's wildness with stories, guidance and challenges designed to help her grow.
When Evvy uncovers what is threatening the island's survival, even Luvo bows to her powers and intuition as she carries out a plan to help the people avoid sure devastation. Of course, there are islanders who don't believe a smirky 14-year-old knows what she's doing, and Evvy doesn't care if the earth's destructive powers eat them whole. Along the way, however, she has come to care about what happens to the orphaned and foster children of Starns Island. That is who Evvy tests her strength for and that is who she saves.
For readers willing to suspend reality and take a chance on believing that rocks, trees, animals and water have spirits worth respecting, MELTING STONES is an enjoyable venture into the realization that we must work with nature in order to enjoy living with it.
--- Reviewed by Joy Held |
As a huge Pierce fan...
| Customer Rating: | I was not at all impressed with "Melting Stones". Tamora Pierce has been one of my favorite authors for a few years now and I'll say that "Melting Stones" doesn't live up to her previous novels. The Circle of Magic quartet was quite good and exciting but this novel can be slow.
It took me some time to actually get through the beginning because I was so used to Ms. Pierce's fast paced reads. Usually with her books I'm done with the book in no time flat.
I will admit that maybe I just didn't like "Melting Stones" because Pierce's "magic" books have never been my favorite. I've always been the biggest fan of her knight books filled with action. So perhaps my opinion shouldn't be counted but either way I was not satified with this read.
Evvy is continuing her journey as a stone mage with her teacher, Rosethorn (a plant mage). Her troublesome behavior at Winding Circle (a place for mages) sends her on an adventure overseas and to an island where plants are mysteriously dying for no seen reason. It's up to them to find out what happened and save all they can. |
Character Lacked A Certain Something
| Customer Rating: | | While I normally adore Tamora Pierce's writing, and I even preordered this book, I didn't enjoy it very much. I felt as though it was rather vague and un-attached, I didn't feel any connection with Evvy as a character. The plot didn't thrill me, and the way Mrs. Pierce chose to write it -- in Evvy's rather uncultured voice -- made the writing difficult to sink into. However, that was just personal opinion. Overall it was an okay read, but for Tamora Pierce? I'd say it was not one of her better books. |
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