can't wait for the follow-on
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I loved The Heart of Myrial' and have just finished it! I feel empty now that I cannot continue the story, however, I am just about to order the next in sequence 'The Spirit of the Stone'.
Yes, there are many characters in this book and you do read their adventure as separate stories, but, to me, this way of writing is fascinating. Admittedly, I did have to flick the pages back a couple of times to pick up on a name or situation that I hadn't remembered, but overall it is an excellent adventure with some very interesting characters, the fire dragon being one! I'm sure some readers will recognise either themselves or a friend in this character!
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Average
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I can see what Maggie Furey was trying to do with this book, and for the most part, it was a success. The book has an original plot, original characters, and a great style of writing that drew me in the the Artefacts of Power books.
However. I found this book, and the ones that followed, to be a little hard to read. Not in that I couldn't understand them, but that I just wasn't interested enough in what the story was about. The characters are well written, but there are LOTS of them, and the story flicks between this great number quite often, not allowing the reader to settle into one story before it throws you into another.
For some, this may be exactly what they want. But for me, there has to be a lot of depth in a book and especially its characters. While they were interesting, I cared very little about them, and perhaps more time spent on developing these characters rather than creating many others, would make the book a little more heartfelt.
Good book, average read.
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the heart of myrial
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This book was the first book I have read by Maggie Furey.Like it is when you start a book by an author for the first time it took some getting into.The story also took a while to get started but when it did it became a truly gripping book.When reading this book you just get deeper and deeper into the plot then the book runs out of pages ,make sure you have spirit of the stone to start straight away and lose yourself in Maggie furey`s amazing fantasy world.
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Amazing!!!!!!!!!
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Why other reviewers have only given this four stars I don't know. This book is wonderfully constructed and has a complex plot with different characters stories intertwining. Full of imagination and originality, I highly recommend this to any fantasy fan.
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Worth a read
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A very good story. The 'good guys' are not always pure, which makes it more realistic. The heroine has some psychological problems which she has to overcome to become the heroine. Some dark moments, which are part of the overall story. Highly recommended by me, for those into fantasy stories. Only negative is that when the book ends it's not the end of the story. So get the Spirit of the Stone at the same time, if you can. I've just pre-ordered the Eye of Eternity
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