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Magic Under Stone (2012)

by Jaclyn Dolamore(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Bloomsbury USA Children's Books

series

Magic Under

review 1: I really liked actually I loved the first book and just the whole concept of it but in this book the writing lacked emotion and to be honest I got really annoyed half way through the book because to nimira crying every time she said anything to erris or even if erris talked to her. the whole book was about trying to free erris and bring him to life and restore him to the throne but it seems the whole book was about nimira trying to get her sh*t together and have one conversation without crying. The ending was a little to fast and not enough time building to the end of the book. In my opinion I think there should have been a third book but only about 100 pages just to have a proper ending to the book/ series. I loved the story setting and the main idea of the book and I rea... morelly like the characters even though some of them needed a little more detail. I really enjoined reading the book and would suggest this book to my friends. Before I'm done this review I just want to say though out this book erris's personality changed a lot and it seemed that it was kind of a switch. He could be very sad and depressing and unsocial, but just of a flip of a switch he's making jokes and teasing nimira but then just like that he's all sad a gloomy again. if I could I would give this book 3.7 because it a hight three but not good enough to get a 4 because I really did think if the characters where more developed and the ending wasn't so quick I would have been one of my favourites.
review 2: This book picks up where Magic Under Glass left off with Nim and Erris trying to find a way to free his spirit from his clockwork body. Their journey takes them to the remote home of Ordorio Valdana, one of the greatest necromancers of all time. Though Ordorio is not home, the young people are invited to spend the winter to cheer up Ordorio's sickly daughter Violet. Violet, the only child of the necromancer and his fairy wife is Erris's niece. He thinks he can make her well but the girl is stubborn and spoiled. Nim worries about her beloved Erris and is confused over her feelings for Hollin. She finds strength in learning magic. She's determined to free Erris no matter what. Ifra is a teenage Jinn, on his 5th master in only a few years. Ifra longs to be free. His heart is not in the wishes he grants and doing violence makes him ill. He falls under the control of the fairy king Luka and his son Belin. Luka wants Erris and sends Ifra to find him. Ifra hates the task set before him but finds something quite unexpected. A fairy civil war is brewing and Luka and Belin want to make sure they are on the winning side, with Ifra's help. Can Ifra help his master but be true to himself? Will Erris ever get his body back? This book takes a long time to get going. At first there's a lot of brooding, which is understandable. There's also a plot similar to The Secret Garden. The story is told alternately by Nim and Ifra which makes the story even more slow and unnecessarily complicated. I would have told Ifra's story in a novella and then linked him up with the main plot in this book. That would have given more time to tell the actual exciting part of the story which instead comes out rushed and a bit anti-climatic. There is a lot of time spent on magic and the principles of it and explaining how certain things are done which also bogs down the story. I was a little disappointed because I was dying to read about Nim and Erri's journey and instead most of the book is about Ifra and his journey while Nim and Erris mostly just do nothing. This story really could have benefited from more action from the main characters and more action earlier in the novel. The story doesn't work as a stand alone so you must read Magic Under Glass first. I recommended reading the last third of the book to find out what happens. less

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