(The Stoneheart trilogy, Book 3)
Charlie Fletcher
Disney Hyperion
Fiction, YA Fantasy
**** (Good)
DESCRIPTION: The thirteenth hour has struck, and all across London the people vanish as time without time takes hold. Only the spits - living statues on the side of good - and the taints - grotesques and gargoyles working with darkness - and the cursed immortals remain... aside from George and Edie. When their enemy, the Walker, escaped through twin mirrors into the outer darkness, an evil entity was displaced into London. The Ice Devil wastes no time in allying itself with the restless force trapped in the London Stone at the heart of the city; together, they might be victorious, but first they must crush the upstart young maker George and his glint companion, Edie.
As spit and taint prepare for the final battle, George awaits the final of the three duels he must fight. Edie, returned from Death itself, has her own quest to follow: during her entrapment by the Walker, she found her mother's heart stone, and the dim glimmer of light within tells her that perhaps her mom is still alive.
REVIEW: This book starts fast... so fast, in fact, that I strongly suspect that it was never intended to be its own book, but an extension of the previous installment (Ironhand.) Fletcher doesn't slow down for recaps or refreshers, plunging straight ahead as though there hadn't been a year-odd gap since the previous book's release. It took me some time to catch up on the fly, but I finally got my bearings. George and Edie both learn important lessons on their separate quests, and come together for a great, tense, and action-filled finale. There's just a teaser of potential for sequels at the end. On the whole, I enjoyed Fletcher's trilogy, and wouldn't mind reading more from the same author, with or without George and Edie.
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