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The Silent Strength Of Stones (1995)

The Silent Strength of Stones (1995)

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ISBN
0380777606 (ISBN13: 9780380777600)
Language
English
Publisher
avon

About book The Silent Strength Of Stones (1995)

The Silent Strength of Stones takes place in the same universe as The Thread That Binds the Bones. Our Male Protagonist is a teenaged boy named Nick who is something of a creeper in that he likes to spy on the people living in the vacation cabins near the store he helps his father run. His creeping ways get him into considerable trouble when he meets a strange girl named Willow and her family. (The creeping was so emphasized by the summary on the back cover of the first edition I came across that I ended up avoiding the book for years until I finally decided to read it. I’m happy to say that while the creeper behavior is part of the plot, it is not nearly as bad as I thought it would be.) Read this review on A Wicked Convergence of Circumstance on BloggerRead this review on Rena's Hub of Random on WordPress.

One suspects that Nina Kiriki Hoffman is a fan of Zenna Henderson and Ray Bradbury. If that's the case, this book is a loving tribute, but unfortunately, it's a pale imitation and seems closer kin to "Twilight" than to "The People" or "Something Wicked This Way Comes." Otherwise, it's a moderately entertaining story about a teenage boy with unusual gifts coming of age in a small mountain town and helping two kindred souls whose family would have been right at home amongst Bradbury's Autumn People. I liked this better than Hoffman's "Hand Full of Sky," but not enough to track down more titles in the series.

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I liked this a little better than "Thread that Binds the Bones" but less than "A Fistful of Sky". It doesn't have quite the same lyricism of either, but it does have a more satisfying resolution than the "Thread that Binds the Bones". Also, I think "magic" was used a bit too often to smooth over rough spots in people's emotions. While it is set in the same universe, there are very few overlapping characters, and the two books (and the third, from what I can tell from the blurb) can all be read independently.
—Melanti

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