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flosmith's review
4.0
I received a free copy of this book for review.
This is the third installment in the Dragonslayer series which follows the life of Astrid who came to Guell as a child to be raised as a blacksmith and find her calling as a dragonslayer. I found this book much darker as we know war is coming to the Northlands with the Krystr.
I love the character of Astrid. She is a strong woman but flawed as the rest of us. We see the toll life is taking on her with the loss of friends and loved ones and the coming war with the Krystr. It seems so unfair that she has had to deal with so many losses. The dragons are kept more in the background in this book. We learn the answers to previous questions about how they manipulated Astrid but not so much the why. But now they seem to be dealing with their own problems taking them out of much of the action.
Nelson is once again dealing with some very hard subjects such as women's rights and religious freedoms. And she does a wonderful job showing you more than one side of an issue.
I love the world and the characters in this series. Its all been wonderfully brought to life and in each book we have met new characters that each have lives of their own. Its a world full of magic and dragons and wonderful characters. Its not necessary to read the first two books before this one because Nelson does a great job of working in previous parts to catch you up. But I've enjoyed reading them in sequence. If you have read the others, this is a must read and the next one can't come soon enough.
This is the third installment in the Dragonslayer series which follows the life of Astrid who came to Guell as a child to be raised as a blacksmith and find her calling as a dragonslayer. I found this book much darker as we know war is coming to the Northlands with the Krystr.
I love the character of Astrid. She is a strong woman but flawed as the rest of us. We see the toll life is taking on her with the loss of friends and loved ones and the coming war with the Krystr. It seems so unfair that she has had to deal with so many losses. The dragons are kept more in the background in this book. We learn the answers to previous questions about how they manipulated Astrid but not so much the why. But now they seem to be dealing with their own problems taking them out of much of the action.
Nelson is once again dealing with some very hard subjects such as women's rights and religious freedoms. And she does a wonderful job showing you more than one side of an issue.
I love the world and the characters in this series. Its all been wonderfully brought to life and in each book we have met new characters that each have lives of their own. Its a world full of magic and dragons and wonderful characters. Its not necessary to read the first two books before this one because Nelson does a great job of working in previous parts to catch you up. But I've enjoyed reading them in sequence. If you have read the others, this is a must read and the next one can't come soon enough.
bookishlyruby's review
5.0
If I loved the first two books in this amazing series, let me tell you that I adored The Stone Of Darkness. I feel like I can't actually describe how much I loved this book.
I loved how we get more subplots at the same time. There aren't too many though and they don't take up much time, but they do keep the reader wanting to read and needing to know more about them. We get to see the dragons again and we get to understand more about them, about their ways and about dragonslayers in general. One thing that I loved was getting a little bit of the history of dragons and I understood them a lot better than I did in the previous novels.
Astrid is changed. While more mature and more used to her role as a dragonslayer, she still has a lot to learn about herself and about her family history and about people in general. I think there were things that happened in this book that she needed to go through in order to understand herself better. There are a lot of questions that find answers in this third book and there are so many more new and old questions that need answers, not only about Astrid, but about anything I thought I new about this world.
There's action, suspense, humor, a little bit of romance, mystery, anything I could have wished for. And the one thing that made me completely adore this book was that I was so focused on what was happening, I never imagined the ending was going to be like that. I have no idea what I was thinking the ending was going to be like, but I was surprised. Now, of course, I'm sitting here biting my nails, waiting for the next one.
Anyway, if you haven't checked this series out (shame on you!) do it now!!! It is good :D
I loved how we get more subplots at the same time. There aren't too many though and they don't take up much time, but they do keep the reader wanting to read and needing to know more about them. We get to see the dragons again and we get to understand more about them, about their ways and about dragonslayers in general. One thing that I loved was getting a little bit of the history of dragons and I understood them a lot better than I did in the previous novels.
Astrid is changed. While more mature and more used to her role as a dragonslayer, she still has a lot to learn about herself and about her family history and about people in general. I think there were things that happened in this book that she needed to go through in order to understand herself better. There are a lot of questions that find answers in this third book and there are so many more new and old questions that need answers, not only about Astrid, but about anything I thought I new about this world.
There's action, suspense, humor, a little bit of romance, mystery, anything I could have wished for. And the one thing that made me completely adore this book was that I was so focused on what was happening, I never imagined the ending was going to be like that. I have no idea what I was thinking the ending was going to be like, but I was surprised. Now, of course, I'm sitting here biting my nails, waiting for the next one.
Anyway, if you haven't checked this series out (shame on you!) do it now!!! It is good :D
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