Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder
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Summary:
As a glassmaker and a magician-in-training, Opal Cowen understands trial by fire. Now it’s time to test her mettle. Someone has sabotaged the Stormdancer clan’s glass orbs, killing their most powerful magicians. The Stormdancers—particularly the mysterious and mercurial Kade—require Opal’s unique talents to prevent it happening again. But when the mission goes awry, Opal must tap in to a new kind of magic as stunningly potent as it is frightening. And the further she delves into the intrigue behind the glass and magic, the more distorted things appear. With lives hanging in the balance—including her own—Opal must control powers she hadn’t known she possessed…powers that might lead to disaster beyond anything she’s ever known.
My Review:
I loved the Study series by Maria Snyder – especially Poison Study. I thought it great how, instead of using muscles and brawn, Maria’s female hero, Yelena, used a magical craft instead.
So in the Glass trilogy (a sequal trilogy to the Study trilogy) I was thrilled to be entering the world of Ixia again – but this time we’re following Opal, a young “one-trick-wonder” student who aided Yelena in the finale of the Study stories.
Unfortunately, many of the attributes I loved about Yelena, her stubbornness, her lack of self-pity (for the most part), her strength, character and commitment to what she knew was right .. all these things were missing in a large part from Opal, making her seem a bit weak in comparison.
Now, to be fair to poor Opal, the storyline was very muddled – with the several (three?) love interests and hopping about from location to location and the missing changing too frequently for me to really get a handle on, there was a lot of confusion and, honestly, I wanted to start whining and feeling self-pity myself.
So while I loved being back in Ixia, I did not enjoy reading Opal’s adventures in Ixia as much as I had hoped I would, and was so conflicted on this book that I ended up having to write two different reviews before I could finally untangle out my thoughts and get them straightened out.
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