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Stoneheart (Stoneheart Trilogy #1)

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A city has many lives and layers. London has more than most. Not all the layers are underground, and not all the lives belong to the living.

Twelve-year-old George Chapman is about to find this out the hard way. When, in a tiny act of rebellion, George breaks the head from a stone dragon outside the Natural History Museum, he awakes an ancient power. This power has been do...more

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Published May 1st 2007 by Disney-Hyperion (first published January 1st 2006)

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Jul 26, 2008 Heidi rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy

I love the idea of the statues of London coming to "life" and enjoyed the transformation of George.The characters, human and otherwise are compelling, and you don't get hard and fast answers about whose side some of these characters are on. This book can be dark and suspenseful... not recommended for children who are prone to nightmares (One of the bad guys enjoys eating children, to give one example).
Ironhand, here I come!!!

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May 03, 2013 Lily rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm having some difficulties deciding if I should rate this book a 2 or a 3...

First of all, I love the idea of the story very much! Statues that come to life, I think that's a very thrilling idea. Thanks to this book, I'll have to look twice at all the statues I walk past now among the city. *laughs*

One of my biggest complaints about the book is that I thought the story dragged on too much... It's like it was more describing things, in a very lengthy way, rather than actually carrying on with th...more I'm having some difficulties deciding if I should rate this book a 2 or a 3...

First of all, I love the idea of the story very much! Statues that come to life, I think that's a very thrilling idea. Thanks to this book, I'll have to look twice at all the statues I walk past now among the city. *laughs*

One of my biggest complaints about the book is that I thought the story dragged on too much... It's like it was more describing things, in a very lengthy way, rather than actually carrying on with the plot. Because of that, I had a really hard time getting into it. The story was also very confusing for me... There were a lot of times I had to look back at the past 4-16 pages that I've already read, and re-read it all over again, hoping that my brain would finally catch on, to what was all being said and described. And so, doing that with a book which I felt was already dragged out, got tiring very, very fast. I literally had to force myself to keep on reading, because I was determined to make it to the end. (which I did!~)

Because it was so dragged out, I felt that the character development fell short. I really wish there was more character development! The only character that I really liked was The Gunner, he was awesome! Whenever he had a scene, I felt myself smiling. To my surprise, I started to actually like Edie near the very end of the book. Which I HATED her with a PASSION before! (And still do to some degree.)
But that's about it... I just know that all of the characters could have been much better, especially George.

And I don't know if I am being nit-picky here, but I felt Stoneheart to be more for Young Adults rather than children. Mostly for some of the language, which actually caught me off guard! I had to check the back of the book right away, to prove to myself that this is actually a children's book! I personally wouldn't recommend this book to an age group of 10 and younger, to be safe. I would read it to them, but I would censor the 'bad words' myself.

Stoneheart was ok. It wasn't terrible, but it didn't really capture my heart either. (Though maybe it did just an ity bity little bit at the end...) I'm glad that I borrowed it from the library, and I will defiantly check out Ironhand sometime in the future, and see where the rest of the story will go.(less)

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Apr 07, 2013 Linda Harley rated it 3 of 5 stars

This story would make a fantastical film. Sadly, it is written in that manner, making it really hard to follow the story in book format. The imagination of the author is fantastical, and this book is definitely refreshing and out of the box thinking. George finds himself swept up into another London, where all the rules he thought existed are turned upside down, and statues come to life. But not all statues are good, there are the spits who are human like and overall good, but then there are als...more

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Sep 25, 2012 Alexis rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: eurgh-not-for-me

My younger sister read this book. I don't know how she made it all the way through. Now, in our family, we get easily starved for books, and sometimes we read each other's bad books just for something to read and talk about. Pitiful, maybe, but there it is. Such was the case with Stoneheart. The cover art was amazing, and there was one excerpt-paragraph on the back that I read and liked, so I thought, okay, I'll give it a try. Nothing else to do.

I never finished it. The characters and their acce...more

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Mar 11, 2012 Lunática Pirate rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recuerdo muy bien cuando empecé a leerlo, fue hace cerca de tres años, y también recuerdo que no estaba entre mis planes comprarlo, simplemente lo cogí de la estantería de la librería porque no lograba decidirme por un libro, vi el lomo verde y lo cogí de pasada junto con “Túneles”. La primera impresión del libro fue que sería una cursilería o algo parecido, ahora sólo me queda decir que estaba totalmente equivocada.
George es un chico gris, según su propia descripción en el primer capítulo, no h...more Recuerdo muy bien cuando empecé a leerlo, fue hace cerca de tres años, y también recuerdo que no estaba entre mis planes comprarlo, simplemente lo cogí de la estantería de la librería porque no lograba decidirme por un libro, vi el lomo verde y lo cogí de pasada junto con “Túneles”. La primera impresión del libro fue que sería una cursilería o algo parecido, ahora sólo me queda decir que estaba totalmente equivocada.
George es un chico gris, según su propia descripción en el primer capítulo, no habla mucho y por lo visto no goza de una habilidad especial más allá de su manía de amasar bolitas de plastilina en el bolsillo de su pantalón. Su aventura, o desventura según se mire, comienza cuando rompe una talla en forma de dragón en el Museo de Historia Natural luego de haber sido expulsado de la visita por su profesor; al romper la talla se introduce en el No-Londres, la misma ciudad mundana pero habitada por vitratos -estatuas con forma humana- y máculas -estatuas con forma de animal-, y capta la atención de una estatua en forma de pterodáctilo que lo persigue hasta que El Artillero, una estatua en honor a los caídos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, lo salva destruyendo la mácula junto con unas cuantas que se había unido a la caza del pobre chico. Luego de salvarlo. El Artillero no da mayor explicación al problema de George más que se ha introducido en una antigua batalla entre máculas y vitratos así que deciden ir con las Esfinges, seres medio vitratos y medio máculas que dan respuestas en forma de acertijos, pero en el camino se encuentran con Edie, una chica que es capaz de ver el No-Londres pero sin haber dañado una talla por lo que el Artillero la llama vislumbre, seres capaces de ver los recuerdos impregnados en las piedras.
Junto a Edie y el Artillero, George se sumerge en la aventura de reparar la talla rota sin terminar muerto en el intento.
Cuando empecé a leerlo se me hizo un poco aburrido pero conforme iba avanzando en la historia no pude dejar de leerlo, me tomó tres días terminarlo y me ha encantado. Un libro bastante interesante que me ha dejado una nueva impresión del mundo, cuando lo terminé recuerdo que miraba fijamente las estatuas esperando que se movieran un poco o algo por el estilo; me encontré varias veces perdida porque la orientación en ciudades desconocidas no es lo mío así que me guié por el mapa de Londres que aparece en las tapas internas del libro.
La forma de contar las cosas de Charlie Fletcher es increíble, no te cansas de leer y cuando menos te das cuenta estás terminando el libro con unas grandes ganas de leerte la continuación, la descripción de los lugares y de los personajes es maravillosa, te sumerges tanto en la historia que terminas por sentir las cosas que pasan.
Es el primer libro de una trilogía así que me frustré bastante cuando me lo leí por primera vez y el segundo libro no había llegado a Colombia y ni que decir del tercero. Pero los temas inconclusos en el primero, como al vida de Edie y el papel de la talla de dragón, se resuelven en los venideros y con creces.
No he podido encontrar mayor cosa del autor y la trilogía, es una pena. El ejemplar que poseo tiene un sello que reza: Próximamente en Cines pero hasta el momento no he recibido noticias sobre su producción, ni siquiera si ya tienen libreto o algo, será esperar y tener esperanzas de que salga pronto.(less)

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Jan 11, 2011 Ithlilian rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult

This book seems to have fallen into the same pattern that many other YA books fall into. The first book is one long chase scene with little actual information being presented. The Alchemyst and Percy Jackson are two other examples. While I didn't mind the breakneck pace in those books, I did mind it here. Percy finds out who and what he is, and so do the twins in The Alchemyst, the characters in this book have very little idea of what is going on other than some statues and good and some are bad...more

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Oct 28, 2010 Jessica rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Stone Heart was a wonderful book with an adventure that George and Edie were not playing on going on. One day George was at a museum in London and it brakes. It is a stone dragon head and when it breaks of the dragon wakes up. What is unusually and unique about this dragon is the only person that can see the dragon is George. Also when George hits this Dragon he some how gets stuck in some twisted land, were reality is there but he and nothing else is seen. There is a another twist that alon...more

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Mar 08, 2010 Stef rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Stoneheart Trilogy ROCKS! (no pun intended)

I couldn't put this series down - just like the Harry Potter books. Although completely different...these books really pull you in. I `read' it via audio books (performed by the fantastic Jim Dale - who also read the HP books) and it was fabulous! The way it is written is completely refreshing...instead of writing "the status was big and looked like it was breathing" the author describes the scene in such a way as to tell the same sentence but to ne...more

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Jun 13, 2009 Hilarie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

I have always loved sculptures. I can remember visiting the museum with my parents as a little girl and being truly frightened by some of the more monstrous images carved in stone, with their malicious smiles that exposed far too many teeth for my small child imagination. I think deep down I was always afraid they were going to suddenly come alive. In Stoneheart, that is exactly what happens to George Chapman, a 12 year-old English boy who expresses his frustration in the wrong way at the wrong...more

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Jun 10, 2009 Josie McClain rated it 5 of 5 stars

This was a real 'page turner'! You can't wait to read what will happen next. However,it is a challenging book. For one thing it is very British. If you were going to use this with a group, it might help to prepare the students with some visuals of London. Talk with them about even though English is spoken in London there are some main differences in what we mean when we say 'biscuit' and what someone in London means by a biscuit. For instance, the main character talks about not wanting to grass...more

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Apr 02, 2009 Adrienne rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: own-it, fantasy

In Stoneheart, we meet George, a boy who has a hard time getting along in school and is generally a bit of a prat, and who gets the story going when he runs afoul of the taints. Taints are a faction of the statuary of London; they are carvings and statues that can come alive and they don’t like people or spits. Spits are the other faction, and they’re the good ones, as they have a sort of soul. As George is running from a particularly nasty taint, he meets the Gunner, one of the statues on a WWI...more

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Jan 23, 2013 Michele rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: children-s-books

Star parts: Right, it's been a long time since I read this, but the one thing that sticks with me is the characters. George is a completely believeable character, his motivation and actions are so on target for a boy his age, that I never once doubted why he would act the way he did*. Edie was also a fascinating character and I liked her for her sheer determination and balls. She comes across as completely unbreakable at the beginning and throughout this rip-roaring romp through London while she...more Star parts: Right, it's been a long time since I read this, but the one thing that sticks with me is the characters. George is a completely believeable character, his motivation and actions are so on target for a boy his age, that I never once doubted why he would act the way he did*. Edie was also a fascinating character and I liked her for her sheer determination and balls. She comes across as completely unbreakable at the beginning and throughout this rip-roaring romp through London while she doesn't become less feisty, she opens up a little and lets George and the Gunner in. There are a whole host of characters in this book, so I can't mention them all, so I'll just list my favourites. The Gunner is great. I actually want to go and look for him when I'm next in London and there is a scene where he is rushing to get back to his plinth before midnight/sunup (eek) which just grabs hold of your heart and twists. The Black Friar is another great character, all the more intriguing because we never know if we can trust him or not. The Walker is a great invention, but I think perhaps, I preferred the Raven. While he is completely evil, the parts that are from his point of view are also quite humorous.

The world building is amazing. While it takes place in a location that is very close to me, my next visit to London will more than likely take on a slightly different tint as I hunt for the Gunner, Black Friar and the Sphinxes as I stroll along the embankments of the Thames. The whole idea of Spits and Taints is great. The descriptions transport the reader right into the scene that Fletcher imagines.

Black clouds: Neither of these were huge dark clouds, but I can imagine that it would bother some readers. Firstly, the pace of the book was break neck. Maybe it's age catching up with me, but there's one point when George is retching he's run so much and, well, I was out of breath too! Secondly it's the ending. It was quick and my reaction was: you what? We've had a little inkling into George's 'real world' enough to know that all isn't rosy and that in Edie and the Gunner he has two people who really care about him, but still I would have liked a little more build up to George's final decision.

Do I recommend it: Totally! In my edition I even got a taster of the first chapter of Ironhand and I want to know what the Walker is doing to the Taints. I do, I do (less)

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Dec 19, 2011 Migdalia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya-ir-fantasy

Twelve-year-old George Chapman breaks the head from a stone dragon outside the Natural History Museum, and he accidentally and unknowingly awakens an ancient power. A stone Pterodactyl unpeels from the wall and starts chasing George who runs for his life but he's the only one who can see the statues coming alive. Finally, he is saved by another statue (one of a WWI gunner), but his adventure doesn't end there. Rather, he learns that the statues have been on a shaky truce, and he's basically dest...more Twelve-year-old George Chapman breaks the head from a stone dragon outside the Natural History Museum, and he accidentally and unknowingly awakens an ancient power. A stone Pterodactyl unpeels from the wall and starts chasing George who runs for his life but he's the only one who can see the statues coming alive. Finally, he is saved by another statue (one of a WWI gunner), but his adventure doesn't end there. Rather, he learns that the statues have been on a shaky truce, and he's basically destroyed the peace. If he doesn't make amends for his act of destruction, they'll hunt him down and unmake him, too.

In addition, he's been transferred to "another" London (think parallel universe or different dimension). Much of what he had in his original universe is here, except in this universe the statues are alive, too. The "spits" (statues representing human beings) and the "taints" (statues representing animals and mythical creatures) don't like each other much, mostly because the taints envy the spits who possess a little bit of the soul of the person who made them or who inspired the making of the statue. The spits naturally have to defend themselves. Add to the mix a group called the "Weirded" who are people whose souls have been cursed and are doomed to walk the earth until they make amends, and one particularly nasty piece of work (pardon the pun), the Walker, who wants to prevent George from making amends and use this as his chance to remove his own curse. It's going to be a long week.

In the course of his adventure, George also meets Edie - another child who can see the living statues and who has issues of her own, and they form a friendship built on their mutual fear and need for survival. George and Edie will need to learn to trust each other and they'll have to rely on each if they hope to make it through and end the war.

This is really fun stuff. The whole concept is so original, and Fletcher uses real statues as the basis of the story. So, to add to the fun, you can travel to London and find them and follow George and Edie's trail. Fletcher knows London and history well, and it shows. Plus, he knows his characters, and they talk naturally and do things that make sense. Even when they do stupid things, there's a sensible reason, and they learn from them so that they don't repeat the mistakes. The plot develops quickly, and the characters do as well. Looking forward to reading the rest of the books in the series!(less)

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Jun 23, 2011 Zia added it

Shelves: ya-j-fic-advisory

Great start to the triology -- makes you want to read more to find out what is really going on.

George is a boy with no friends; an outcast. He lives with his mom the actrss, and his dad has died.

Through an angry moment outside a London museum, he breaks off a dragon head off the building. This sets in motion a chain of events that involves the statues and gargoyles of London coming to life and chasing him.

There is a plucky girl character named Edie who has a bit of a strange background herself...more

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Jun 20, 2012 Sue Smith rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-read-in-2012

I was pleasantly surprised by this book actually. Not that I went into it with any expectations or anything. I just wanted an audio book that would entertain me on my loooonnnnggg commute to and from work and had decided that I wanted to listen to one narrated by Jim Dale, as I so enjoy his narration on the Harry Potter series.

So I was happy to have a familiar voice lending his expertise to another story but I was quite taken by the story itself. I really wasn't kidding when I said it was like r...more I was pleasantly surprised by this book actually. Not that I went into it with any expectations or anything. I just wanted an audio book that would entertain me on my loooonnnnggg commute to and from work and had decided that I wanted to listen to one narrated by Jim Dale, as I so enjoy his narration on the Harry Potter series.

So I was happy to have a familiar voice lending his expertise to another story but I was quite taken by the story itself. I really wasn't kidding when I said it was like reading a story of Harry's cousins exploits - similar in some respects, but different and magical in it's own way. It was a whole new way to 'see' things and how you can really spin a wonderful story out of thin air really. Truly, I wish I was closer to London to be able to see these things for myself and get the feel for them in the real. That would have just made it all perfect! Especially because this book is spun with such a close interaction between the real and the unseen world of London.

This book happens to be the first of a trilogy - and it's a great first. I'm definitely on board for the rest! It finds our young protagonist, George, going from his everyday world - a world full of hurtfulness, bulling, neglect and confusion - into one that he literally breaks his way into. Accidentally. But we all know that there are no accidents in life. Accidents are just clothed as opportunities for life lessons. And George needs to break out of his funk and learn some lessons - and along the way, discover that he's more than what he pegs himself as.

I liked the characters that Charlie Fletcher develops - they're wonderfully imaginative. So although it's a story that is completely not there to most of us out there, it's really there for those who have the imagination to 'see' it .... and kids should be able to get it right away! The narration by Jim Dale just adds to it all and they couldn't have picked a better one to give life to all the characters that George meets along the way. This book is well worth the read and I'm looking forward to carrying on!(less)

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Jun 20, 2009 Jessica rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: kidlit

Rather like Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, written for the younger set. George disgraces himself at a school trip to the museum, and finds himself being terrorized by a pterodactyl statue that peels itself off the facade of the museum. With the help of a bronze WWI statue and a young girl who can not only see the living statues but experience the past when she touches things, George needs to find the Stone Heart to put his world back in order. I kind of wished that there would be less running around...more

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Jan 18, 2009 Patrick rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult

I'm reading a hardback from the library, but it has this cover.

This didn't jump out at me, but lots of my kids at school are enjoying this series. It's better than I expected. I'm liking it. It is confusing at the beginning, well, actually throughout the whole story and into the next book, but it makes sense in this context. The situation is one where the characters credibly wouldn't have a clue about the new world they discover and there really wouldn't be pause in the action or even someone to...more

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Jan 24, 2012 Bonnie Jean rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, audiobook

I actually rather enjoyed reading Stoneheart. Jim Dale does an excellent job narrating the book (no surprise there) and I thought that the premise of the story (12-year-old George does something to accidentally kick himself into an alternate universe where the statues in London are alive, but not all are friendly) was pretty well executed, though the division between the 2 types of statues seems somewhat arbitrary to me. I started out not liking either of the main characters much, but they both...more

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Nov 23, 2010 Erika rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

I read this book about a year ago, maybe year and a half. I re-read it this weekend and, just like the last time, I thought it was an okay book. The idea of the statues coming to life is great, but the written execution is not up to it.

Even though the story is enjoyable, there's way too much description of irrelevant things (taxis passing by, unrelated buildings, etc.), the dialogues are bland, and -in my opinion- there aren't enough action scenes, and the few ones the story has are more descrip...more

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Sep 17, 2012 Mandi Ellsworth added it

I picked up this Playaway for my kids to listen to and ended up listening to it myself. It’s a middle grade novel about a 12 year old, George, who finds another ‘layer’ of London. A layer where stone and statues come to life. He finds a girl about his same age, Edie, who has the same problem and they join forces with a statue called the Gunner, trying to stay a live.

I enjoyed this story and thought it would be good for boys and girls alike. It’s the first of a trilogy, so I may pick up the seco...more

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Apr 03, 2012 Yougo rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, young-adult

When I started this book, I didn't really think I would enjoy it that much. By the end, the story picked up and I found that I was excited to read the remainder of the trilogy.

One of the sticking points early in book for me was it felt like the author went out of his way to NOT give you any details about the situation. This was a distraction to me. The characters in the know were very off-putting to those who needed to know, despite what I felt was sufficient time to address the issues, instead...more

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Jan 30, 2012 Krystl Louwagie rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

There was nothing really wrong with this book, it was just lack luster and I lost my concentration a lot, lost the story. There were too many boring action sequences without much story in between. Plus, the narrator is one I'm NOT fond of-he goes overboard with voices and sound effects and makes everything sound like it was written for a short attention span two year old. Hearing a narrator making chewing sounds is way over the line, it's disgusting and annoying and it makes me want to hurt some...more

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Oct 06, 2011 Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars

Listening to this on the Nano - love the narrator and fast-paced story thus far!

Update: Jim Dale is the narrator for these books, and he does a smashing job with the interpretations of the characters and voices - the story is unique and unusual, and the main characters of George and Eadie are sympathetic and seem like pretty good kids on quite the adventure. Soon as I finished listening to the first book, I immediately popped to the SPL.org website to checkout the next book in the trilogy, which...more

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Apr 12, 2013 Katie rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: audio-book, kid-lit

I listened to the audio version of this book - in fact, the only reason I picked it up is because Jim Dale was the narrator. I LOVE Jim Dale. His voice makes most anything palatable and it definitely got me through this book. That said, I can't say that I really enjoyed the story. It is YA, but that is no excuse for some of the flaws - particularly in plot development. I understand that this is part of a series, but so much was left unexplained and as a result it felt haphazard. I felt the chara...more

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Nov 17, 2010 Aleea rated it 2 of 5 stars

Really, really neat idea. It was very well done for the first third of the book. After that point either the author liked seeing ink on paper or the editor forgot to edit. Too much telling, way too much description, too much pointless dialogue. It felt like every noun was preceded by at least two adjectives. Adjectives are good... in moderation.

I read this to my family out loud so maybe I was extra-sensitive to these faults. Not only was I catching typos and subject-verb agreement issues, I was...more

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Apr 14, 2012 Denae rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy-present-day

Well, the character started off pretty annoying, but he got much better by the end.
The plot was good. The tension and pacing and danger were good. The characters argued quite a bit, but it fit. The magic was well-defined and not too restricted but not omnipotent. The mystery bits were good, with the reader trying to learn more about the characters from hints, and the characters trying to solve riddles and things. Setting (London) was good.

But the story didn't leave much of an impression on me. M...more

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Dec 11, 2011 Dayna Smith rated it 4 of 5 stars

The first book in The Stoneheart Trilogy. When 12-year-old George breaks the head off a stone dragon in a fit of anger little does he realize that he will find himself running unseen through another London. A London in which statues come to life. He soon realizes that no one sees the living statues but Edie who is also trapped in this strange world. To repair the damage he has done and prevent a war between the statues of London he must find the Stone Heart and make a sacrifice. But he only has...more

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Jun 08, 2010 Jody rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: borrowed

When 12 year old George takes out his anger on a stone carving, strange things start to happen. Suddenly, things that should not be moving at all begin to chase him around London. And to his horror, George seems to be the only one who can see them. He finally finds an ally when a statue steps down to help him, but his journey is only just beginning. Without any clue as to what’s going on, George is thrust into a world where nothing is as it seems and is forced to fight against time in order to g...more

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Apr 13, 2013 Gautam Surath rated it 3 of 5 stars

As I delve deeper into the fantasy fiction genre, I realise that my expectations from books increase across different dimensions. One of these is maturity. I really expect the author to let me figure out the pieces rather than spoon feed. Spoon feeding is strictly Young Adults stuff. This book began with spoon feeding and I nearly gave up the chase but am I glad I did not. Charlie has a great knack for keeping the narrative simple but the story complicated. And that just works. But there are big...more

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Apr 05, 2013 Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars

I nearly abandoned this book during the first chapter: I found the protagonist irritating and the writing style was a bit choppy and opaque. Thankfully I picked it up again after finishing another MG book (Shadow Forest) and found I got into it better. The premise is unusual and extremely well executed; the pace is good and characters like Edie and the Gunner really made me want to finish it. In the end I came to like George too - his character develops away from the whiny child he is at the beg...more

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Charlie Fletcher is the author of Stoneheart, shortlisted for the Branford Boase award and longlisted for the Guardian children’s fiction award. Ironhand, the sequel to Stoneheart, is his new novel. He’s also a screenwriter for film and television here and in the USA. He lives in Edinburgh with one wife, two children, and a terrier called Archie.

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“Everything is funny from some angle, I assure you it is. It's just a matter of where you're standing.” — 2 people liked it

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