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A review by bhav
The House of the Stone by Amy Ewing
2.0
This novella was really short and showed us Raven's story during the time of [b:The Jewel|16068780|The Jewel (The Lone City, #1)|Amy Ewing|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1392220609s/16068780.jpg|21861160] and to be honest, it felt pretty irrelevant. The book starts of with the main character being chosen as a surrogate and arriving at her new home. She then proceeds to disobey every, single thing her new Mistress tells her to do. And, I get why, the whole "rebelling against the system" thing, but it just caused a torturous continuation for her.
We then see a scene we already read where she finally sees Violet (the main character of the series) again, and I did a double-take at this part:
"A woman walks in. She wears a beautiful blue silk dress and has skin and eyes and hair like mine. I could care less about her because Violet is walking into the room behind her."
First, where are the commas in the second sentence and second,
"I could care less"
Seriously, shouldn't an editor be checking this and making sure mistakes like this don't get through?
Anyway, I'll still read the second book in the series but I definitely hope it's better than this story was.
We then see a scene we already read where she finally sees Violet (the main character of the series) again, and I did a double-take at this part:
"A woman walks in. She wears a beautiful blue silk dress and has skin and eyes and hair like mine. I could care less about her because Violet is walking into the room behind her."
First, where are the commas in the second sentence and second,
"I could care less"
Seriously, shouldn't an editor be checking this and making sure mistakes like this don't get through?
Anyway, I'll still read the second book in the series but I definitely hope it's better than this story was.