Customer Reviews

The Stone Mage and the Sea (Books of the change)

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Sean Williams creates a strangely familiar otherworld, both mystic and mundane: one of beaches and sand dunes, of deserts and barren hills, of scrub and stony plains - subtly changed and enlivened by mystery. Therein unfolds nothing less than a damn good story - so suspenseful that the book is hard to put down.

A refreshingly different fantasy trilogy, with an Australian beachside and desert setting, in general. A boy and his father are constantly on
the move, to prevent the authority figures from gaining control of his particular talents at utilising a type of magic energy.

He meets a girl who does not have his talent, but has the skill and understanding to help him use it, and with their mentor's help, work out what they need to do. A

Too bad this series is only available overseas because Sean Williams is a very good writer and this whole alternate universe is well done. The first three books have never been published here and of the final four, only three have and that fairly recently.

Well worth reading, if you've read any of the Books of the Cataclysm because it introduces some of the main characters and sets up the "world as it is" which will recurr in the 2nd Cataclysm volume.

Very nice fantasy series.