Stone Maiden by Ann Aguirre was Aguirre’s début book. I liked the story, but it failed to truly grab me. I thought most of the characters’ had earth shattering revelations and underwent dramatic changes, only to return, in one form another to their previous states, or a worse state, because they now had knowledge of what the world could have offered them.
I liked the mythological elements of the book, though I was hungry to hear more of the gods of old. I was pleased with the way Aguirre managed to tie in current aspects of the book with the presence of those ancient and forgotten gods.
While I don’t think Stone Maiden in any way represents Aguirre’s best work, I think she has grown tremendously as a writer since its publication and I would like to see her turn her skills to a sequel for Stone Maiden. I think the basic back story is solid enough to build upon and there are several characters in the tale whose long-term fates, I would like to learn.
Stone Maiden is written by Ann Aguirre. Try as I might I was unable to locate an ISBN for the work. I downloaded it on the Kindle, actually, the Kindle for Blackberry application. That left me minus a cover page, but I’m tyring to locate more information and will post it as it becomes available
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