Today was rainy, wet, and cloudy outside. I had no school (Yay Big 9 Festival!) so, I decided to read. Hot chocolate, book, couch, here I come! So I finished Stormglass by Maria V Snyder.That picture ------ was me for a long time today. It was hard to put down once you got into the book. See here for the synopsis.Stormglass also connects with with Maria's other series, the Soulfinder books that starts with Poision Study. You can however, read this as a standalone as Maria does a great job explaining background information. I recommend reading Poison Study. It's my favorite book by Maria so far!
Stormglass is an interesting book because the protagonist in the Soulfinder books is portrayed almost as if...all powerful. Yelena didn't make mistakes. But Opal Cowan, the main character is anything but. She's more relatable to us as an audience. However, People call her "the One-Trick Wonder" because she can only preform one trick and causes her to be self deprecating and self pitying. It's actually really annoying because you can see that she's obviously going to develop potential. Grow yourself some backbone girl!My favorite hunk-a-lunk is Kade Stormdancer rather than Ulrick Cowan. He's the strong, silent, and tragic kind of guy. Veerry nice. ;)
There are quite a few reaccuring characters like Janco, Lief, the Master Magicans, and Yelena. One reason that I really love Maria's work is for the way she does sarcasm and dry humour. Never fails to make me smile.
"Yippee. I’ve been promoted from fire lighter to delivery boy. I’ll write a letter home to Mother. She’ll be so pleased.”
--Leif
All in all, I'd give Stormglass by Maria V Snyder a four star. A great book with potential to become more with the other books in the trilogy.
Have a great day everyone! :)
