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Silvertongue (2009)

by Charlie Fletcher(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1423101790 (ISBN13: 9781423101796)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Hyperion Books

series

Stoneheart Trilogy

review 1: A very satisfying end to an action packed trilogy. This last book of the series didn't disappoint - non stop, give it your all or die trying - the finale finds George and Edie discovering where their strengths lie and how friends that stand with you become a part of that strength as well as when you know your strength and your weaknesses, you become a better person for it. To add just an extra edge to the chaos of trying to right the wrong that was started back in the beginning, this has all the old characters fighting in suspended time while George and Edie puzzle out how to stop the world from staying in limbo - and in perpetual winter.It really was non stop - and there were times that I thought that it might be a little too heavy for the age of kids that this is aimed... more at. I mean - these kids have to save the world from a perpetual limbo in a dark and freezing winterland where all is suspended between the here and now. It's a wee bit of a task to ask! Even with the assistance of all those statues. All the while having to come to grips with their own problems and issues that aren't that small. (Lord knows that I have problems of my own that I haven't dealt with ... yet). And this over the course of approximately three days (one day per book).A tall order to say the least.But all's well that ends well, and this - of course - has a positive ending (thankfully). I really wish that I lived in London so I could come face to face with these statues that Charlie Fletcher has brought to life so wonderfully. It would lend such a rounding out of the characters and why he chose to write them as he did. Certainly he caught the spirit of them anyways and if we're ever to go I'll be sure to search them out. (On my list of things I will do when I next hit London!!!). He certainly weaves a complicated and engrossing story around a wonderfully imaginative idea!
review 2: There's not a lot to say about this book that I haven't already said about the other two. I really feel like this whole series is just based around someone who loves the statues in London and has a lot of fantasies about what would happen if they were alive, and I think people who were familiar with London would probably have a deeper appreciation for the book 'cause they'd be in on the collective fantasy. Because other than that, I don't feel like the world created in order to enact this living statue premise is all that solid.In this book, once more, Edie pulls the story. There are a few too many battle scenes in which I drifted off and got bored, and I actually took a little offense at the portrayal of the "Queen of America" statue come to life. Is there really a statue in London of a Native American woman riding a buffalo? British folks DO know that NO ONE rides buffalos, don't they? I can at least appreciate them giving a Native American woman "dominion" over the U.S., although thinking of her as a "Queen" is very Eurocentric.Also, I wasn't sure why this book was called Silvertongue. Who or what was Silvertongue? It must have been explained in one of the places where I daydreamed. Although this book does graze some mature topics, it doesn't have the "dark" moments I appreciated about the second book. So although the whole trilogy gets three stars from me, the stars vary in their "solidness." I liked this book less than the second, but more than the first. So if the first was really 2.5, and the second was really 3.5, then I guess this one is the solid, true 3. less

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