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  <default_description>&lt;b&gt;An audiobook first!&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; bestselling author Tamora Pierce has written the new novel in her popular Circle of Magic universe to go directly to audio&amp;mdash;preceding the print version by at least a year.

Residents on one of the islands south of Emelan have sent a call for help to Winding Circle temple: Their plants and trees and the animals that live around them are mysteriously dying. From Winding Circle come two familiar figures: prickly green mage Rosethorn, whose plant magic will help her decipher what's ailing the plant life, and Briar's former student, the stone mage Evvy. With them comes the eager, nervous Dedicate Initiate Myrrhflower and Luvo, a being best described as a walking, intelligent rock. All are pulled into the island's mystery when Evvy is caught up by the wild spirits loose in an immense bubble of molten rock. Can they evacuate the island in time--or will they try to shift a volcano?</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I fell in love with Tamora Pierce's books at the age of about 10 or 11 and because of this I still have a great deal of affection for her writing.  I like the the Circle of Magic books quite a lot; and of the Circle Opens books, <em>Street Magic</em>, the book which introduces Evvy (the main character in <em>Mel...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27319366">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh bummer!  I love Tamora's Tortall series, but just can't get into the Circle one.  This book in particular was blah.  If someone asked me what I thought of it the shortest (and possibly best) answer I can come up with is, &quot;meh&quot;.  Especially for the last 1/4 of the book.  It just lacked s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45920827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Melting Stones is a spin-off story from Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic series.  Evvy, a youngster discovered by Briar in a previous story, is a stone mage who is traveling to an island that is suffering from poisoned water and dying plants.  Evvy and her talking-heart-of-the-mountain, Luvo, and the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14007634">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I do love the series about Tortall, and the first Circle series by Pierce. And <em>The Will of the Empress</em>.  But the ones where the four mages become teachers, not so much.  Unfortunately this one also rubbed me wrong.  <br/><br/>I think it's the fact that Evvy's the narrator and sometimes her cynicis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22580724">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been a Tammy fan since I was 13.  I've always loved her work.  It's solid young adult and makes me feel good to read it.<br/><br/>I started reading Circle of Magic when I was 15 and going through difficulties with my hip (which had fractured and continually needed operations).  I latched righ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42186043">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(This wasn't a paperback yet)Still waiting with bated breath for the sequel to Bloodhound!  This book has the interesting distinction of having been published as an audio book before the printed edition came out.  The mage Rosethorn has been called to find out why the plants are dying on a particula...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41154293">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I am a big fan of some of Pierce's other words (particularly her Tortall series - Wild Magic is a possible fav), I haven't enjoyed the last two Circle of Magic spin-offs, Melting Stones included.<br/><br/>There are still snatches of Pierce's original skill - real characters, real dialogue...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39429161">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The queen of Young Adult Fantasy novels, Tamora Pierce, just keeps getting better and better!  Her latest offering was an publishing innovation, in addition to being a wonderful story.  Melting Stones was first released as an audio book last year.  Pierce credits the readers of Full Cast Audio books...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71709958">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, what is wrong with this book? I normally love all of Pierce's work but this one was a tremendous letdown. I know the Circle of Magic series is written for a younger audience and has never really rated highly in my reads, but I really enjoyed &quot;the Will of the Empress&quot; which is miles be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57467879">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Evumeimei (Evvy for short) is a stone mage in training.  She’s journeying with her mentor, Rosethorn (a green mage who can manipulate plants), Myrrtide (a water mage), and Luvo (the rock-bodied, animated heart of a mountain).  They’ve been called to the Islands to investigate several mysterious ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41961917">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished listening to <em>Melting Stones</em>.  I found it very interesting, and I especially liked the production.  This book was written for and recorded by <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.fullcastaudio.com">Full Cast Audio</a>, rather than being a printed book and then adapted to the audio version.<br/><br/>Full Cast Audio, as always, did a wonderful...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41900177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really tried to have an open mind about this one at first as I am not a fantasy reader. Unfortunately, I just started loathing it.  I wanted to give up and put the book down numerous times, but by about page 100, thought I might as well just finish it (it was assigned for class, after all).  I am ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60045498">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This came in the mail yesterday, and though I was technically in the middle of another book at the time, Tamora Pierce is one of my favourite authors, so I couldn't resist the temptation to pick it up instead.<br/><br/>With the exception of <u>The Will of the Empress</u>, the books in the Circle series s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50697313">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has a very different feel to it than any of Tammy's other works.  For one thing, it is written in the first person, told from the perspective of 14-year-old stone mage Evvy, Briar's former student.  It was originally made as a full-cast audiobook, which may account for some of the differen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61585132">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to start by saying I *love* Tamora Pierce - she's one of my favorite authors. So I was surprised, to say the least, at Melting Stones. It just wasn't great. The heroine is unlikeable and spends the majority of the book talking to stones and fire spirits, which gives the reader very little to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63939932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is part of one of my least favorite Pierce series and she does something surprising that is unfortunate - something unusual for her. And I don't have a good word for it. She retrofits the main character midway through the book making the character unbelievable. Evvy was introduced in a prior bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46093173">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the first person and Evvy's wit and the way they solved the problem, though I thought of that as soon as Rosethorn mentioned the solution the FIRST time, toward the beginning of the book.<br/>Evvy's power is pretty well-laid out, but she pretty much seems to do the same things with it (ente...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47761536">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unlike Tamora Pierce's other Circle books, this one is written from a first person perspective.  It really threw me and I think it made the story a lot less interesting than it could have been.<br/><br/>I'm also getting a distinct feeling that Tamora Pierce is just trying to throw new packaging on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65935125">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The problem I had was that we got the audio book last year and never finished it.  We listened to the first part together and enjoyed it pretty well, but then we couldn't find time to listen to the rest together, and I couldn't find time to listen to it alone!  We finally all gave up and waited for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42537360">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[definitly not pierce's best book. i hated Luvo, and Evvy is pretty selfish and mean. I like whathisname, starts w/an O who doesnt have magic but is super smart. hes pretty cool. i like the other kid who i think started w/a J. hes really nice. but Luvo is just too all knowing, too weird, too random, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49669704">more...</a>]]></body>
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