Stoneheart

I listened to this as an audiobook narrated by Jim Dale, who is amazing. I'm not sure I'd have enjoyed it as much without the great narrator. Over all a good clean adventure story.

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 flaws and the ending is just not conclusive or satisfying. Am considering whether to continue with the franchise but I do recommend reading the first one.