The Stone Fey

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Summary: Not her best work, and not for children.
Review: Robin McKinley is my favorite author, and I was very disappointed in this book. I bought it not only for myself, but for my kids, and let them read it first. Neither said much about it, and I was surprised until I read it myself. The story is disturbing and of sufficiently adult content that I would not categorize this as a children's book. It is also not as well-written as her other books. There were even some sentences that I had to read a few times just to get the correct meaning. I loved the illustrations, but didn't like the story. Not too many nine to twelve-year-olds will get the point of this story -- I'm not so sure I did myself.

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Summary: Mckinley's worst
Review: Robin Mckinley is one of my favorite authors, but here she really stunk. The story was hard for a full grown adult to understand, let alone children.

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Summary: Convoluted and unfit for young readers
Review: The story has a certain mysterious quality that made you want to keep on reading. Nevertheless I was very disapointed upon the ending I found myself thinking McKinnley could have done better much better. As in THE BLUE SWORD or THE HERO AND THE CROWN and what ever is wrong with turning it into another BEAUTY. I would not recomend this book to a child they wouldn't like it nor to someone who loves to read as much as I do they would find it disturbing in the upmost but to someone who doesn't care so much and doesn't pickup a book often enough to know the difference between this and some of McKinleys other works I think they would really enjoy this as a first book

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Summary: A book not ,a good story yes
Review: The story has a certain mysterious quality that made you want to keep on reading. Nevertheless I was very disapointed upon the ending I found myself thinking McKinnley could have done better much better. As in THE BLUE SWORD or THE HERO AND THE CROWN and what ever is wrong with turning it into another BEAUTY. I would not recomend this book to a child they wouldn't like it nor to someone who loves to read as much as I do they would find it disturbing in the upmost but to someone who doesn't care so much and doesn't pickup a book often enough to know the difference between this and some of McKinleys other works I think they would really enjoy this as a first book

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Summary: Not the Robin McKinley I know and love.
Review: This story seems like an idea that went nowhere. I was not charmed by the characters as I have been in her previous books and when I was done I wondered why I bothered. This is not a child's book but the format suggests it. Most YA's wouldn't pick it up for that reason. Sigh! I surely would like another "Beauty" or "Blue Sword"!

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Summary: well written but dull
Review: when I finished this book I was disapointed althought "the stone fey " was,as all of Mckinley's books,well written I found the plot boring completly unlike the other books she has written such as "spindle's end","beuty" and "rose daughter".this book was sort of unfineshed and the "end" was stupid. I think the story was so short and dull it was almost not worth being written.