This book begins what I hope is another Quartet for Pierce. I love that Pierce sticks with characters for so long, and that they make appearances in some of her other books as well. This particular book is about Evvy, a young stone mage who has been asked to accompany two adult plant and water mages to an island to discover why everything is dying. Evvy was rescued from the streets and also has memories of war which make trusting those around her particularly difficult and lead to a number of problems throughout this story. She does begin to thaw a little, but not so much that we are left with a tidy happily-ever-after ending.
It's been so long since last Evvy was in a book that I wished I had reread "Street Magic" before picking this one up. There were holes in my memory of her story. Still, it was enjoyable and I look forward to the rest of the quartet.
(AND it shows a girl wearing a dress on the cover. I just mention it...)
5 comments:
From the waist up! That's a different genre all together.
Also, that's really more of a tunic.
Well, if you're going to be nit-picky...!
I'm going to give you this one.
Your generosity is just overwhelming, Joan.
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