Catherine Fisher
Hardcover | Pages: 298 pages Rating: 3.28 | 437 Users | 76 Reviews
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| Title | : | Circle of Stones |
| Author | : | Catherine Fisher |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 298 pages |
| Published | : | November 13th 2013 by Dial Books (first published May 6th 2010) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery. Mythology |
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TODAY: Sulis, a teenage girl with a mysterious past, arrives in Bath, England, with a new identity. She feels safe at the King’s Circus, a ring of old, strange stone houses where she lives with her foster family—until she spots the one person she’s been trying to outrun.THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO: Zac is apprenticed to a mad architect who plans to create the world’s first circular street, King’s Circus. Zac probes the mysticism surrounding the structure, but he has his own secret agenda.
THE ANCIENT PAST: The mythical first builder of the city of Bath, a leprous druid king, discovers its healing waters . . . but to what end?
In each voice, unexpected mysteries entwine, linking together three haunting stories as they hurtle toward a smart and brilliantly intriguing climax.
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| Original Title: | Circle of Stones |
| ISBN: | 0803738196 (ISBN13: 9780803738195) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Carnegie Medal Nominee (2011) |
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Ratings: 3.28 From 437 Users | 76 ReviewsCommentary Epithetical Books Circle of Stones
I rated this 3/5 because I didn't understand part of it. It was just....silly. The three things clearly have nothing to do with one another. A leper finds a sulfuric hot spring, is healed, and hallucinates. A dude builds a giant round in honor of the dead leper-king and dies of an asthma attack. Then lastly a girl has extreme PTSD after accidentally pushing her friend off a wall and is seeing the dead leper-king but thinks he did it? The only connection is the sulfur water and the dead king. ITruthfully, I wasn't expecting to make it all through this novel. I've read several books by Catherine Fisher in the past, but I never really liked them, and I gave up part-way through Incarceron. So imagine my surprise when I blew through Circle of Stones, finishing it in less than a day! Though I don't think I LOVED it, I enjoyed it. The story was well-paced and the alternate view-points and times really added to the story as a whole. Would recommend.
This review is also posted on my blog Mad Scibrarian.Ill be honest; I almost donated this book to my library without having read it. I tried the first 2 chapters and thought maybe I shouldnt bother. But I kept it for over 4 years and still the premise of 3 characters from 3 different times being weaved together into one story just sounds so cool (and Furyborn was a disappointment in that area). So I added this book to my Top 12 to Read in 2019 and thus committed to either finally reading the
I didn't really feel engaged by the characters or even get that invested in their stories. However, I did like the symbolism, the mirroring of characters, the three intertwining narratives -- structurally, a lot of this really pleased me (I love seeing patterns emerge in stories and how authors manipulate those patterns to suit their needs). It's just too bad that I couldn't get more into what was actually happening.
It was a great book! I really want to read it a second time!
This book was an okay read, but it really didn't grab my attention like I was hoping it would. I'm a big fan of all kinds of mythologies, and I was really hoping this book would have had more Druidism in it than it did. Instead, what I got was a series of three sort-of connected stories that hinted at a variety of secrets, many of which were never completely spelled out. I also felt like I was reading a Diana Wynne Jones copycat that wasn't nearly as good as the real thing.The characters were
Rating: 1.5 stars This was...not good lol. Certainly not worth keeping on my shelf for 4-5 years. I did appreciate what the author tried to do with the circular, reflective storylines (the authors note at the end is pretty much the only reason I gave this 1.5 stars instead of just one), but the ending as a whole was majorly unsatisfying and honestly just stupid. The characters were all boring, annoying, or misogynistic/racist. Oh yeah, there was a lot of that in this book and it was so
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