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A review by emma_m
The Stone Key by Isobelle Carmody
4.0
I really loved being able to see all the foreshadowing in this book. And now I am a bit older I am 100% more able to appreciate Isobelle Carmody's mastery in weaving all the plots of this story together in a way that doesn't over complicate things with unnecessary details. This book is overly long, and some of the writing is laughable, but I think this is the book I have forgotten the least from. So many of the things that happen in this book are BIG and impossible to forget. And the scene with Domick... I was in tears. Isobelle Carmody certainly doesn't shy away from massive losses for her main characters which makes the story so much more intense.
There were definitely some details in this book that I'd completely forgotten though, such as the theory that Salamander was Sadorian, and the stuff about the woman's room in Ariel's residence, and about how there were stories of a shining city further in the mountains ... my theories for the last book are developing. I can't wait to reread The Sending (although it will probably still take me ages) because I remember getting a lot of answers within that book and also reuniting with some familiar characters. Hopefully it won't take me quite as long as this book took.
There were definitely some details in this book that I'd completely forgotten though, such as the theory that Salamander was Sadorian, and the stuff about the woman's room in Ariel's residence, and about how there were stories of a shining city further in the mountains ... my theories for the last book are developing. I can't wait to reread The Sending (although it will probably still take me ages) because I remember getting a lot of answers within that book and also reuniting with some familiar characters. Hopefully it won't take me quite as long as this book took.