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Stonewiser: The Heart of the Stone Kindle Edition

by Dora Machado (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 1 of 3: Stonewiser

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As a Stonewiser, Sariah can read the stories hidden deep within the sacred stones.

She has the power to witness the past and change the future.

But when she discovers dangerous lies that have been interwoven with the truth in the stones, she is forced to turn to her enemy: a man who is as intoxicating as he is powerful…

…and her world won’t ever be the same again.

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Winner of the 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Debut Novel --Independent Book Publishers Association

Finalist for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year 2009, Science Fiction/Fantasy --Foreword Magazine

Dora Machado's debut novel, Stonewiser: The Heart of the Stone, is an accomplished adult fantasy, entertaining and thought provoking in equal measure. Due out in June, this is a page-turner with heart and deserves to find a wide readership. --SFFMedia.com

Finalist for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year 2009, Science Fiction/Fantasy --Foreword Magazine

Finalist for the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Debut Novel --Independent Book Publishers Association

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- Finalist for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year 2009, Science Fiction/Fantasy Foreword Magazine
- Winner of the 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Debut Novel Independent Book Publishers Association

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001F7ATEO
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mermaid Press (December 9, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 9, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5386 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 697 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 152154509X

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Dora Machado is the award winning author of the Stonewiser series. She is one of the few Hispanic women exploring her heritage and her world through the epic fantasy genre today. She holds a master's degree in business administration and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in history from Georgetown University. She was born in Michigan but grew up in the Dominican Republic, where she developed a bilingual fascination for writing, a preference for history, and a taste for Merengue. After a lifetime of straddling such compelling but different worlds, fantasy is a natural fit to her stories. She enjoys long and winding walks, traveling, and connecting with the amazingly clever readers who share in her mind's adventures. She is currently working on her next novel, The Curse Giver, which is set to be published August 15, 2013. She lives in Florida with her indulging husband and three very opinionated cats.

To learn more about Dora Machado and her award winning novels, visit her website at http://www.doramachado.com/. You can also email her at Dora@doramachado.com, find her on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/DoraMachado101, or follow her on Twitter @DoraMachado.

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Jane Ryder

A Game of STONES!

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2012

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Fantasy was a favorite genre of mine when I was younger, but nowadays I find all that sword-and-sorcery stuff leaves me yawning. Everyone raved about "A Game of Thrones," but I couldn't even bring myself to finish it. Yes yes, castles. Armor and chain mail and vast armies described in loving detail. Fictional dynasties with their lineage described unto three generations. Ho hum, fantasy's way more boring than I remembered.

But.

Thanks to Dora Machado, my love of fantasy has been rekindled. "Stonewiser: The Heart of the Stone" is an intelligent, original, vividly drawn tale without all the typical tropes that make me want to run the author through with a halberd or something. It's still an epic story of magic and romance, but with fresh new takes on both. The writing is excellent, the characters are engaging, the love story has just enough of the bodice-ripper about it to be really fun while still managing to be believable, the heroine is both empowered and vulnerable, and above all the premise and world-building are entertaining and unique.

If you're tired of the same old fantasy fare, give Machado a try. I'm so glad there are more books in this series!

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Dark, Cryptic, and Interesting

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2012

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Sariah starts in her story in a bleak situation. She is basically a slave with all the negatives that implies. She is powerful stone wiser and the Council controls stonewisers in a brutal way. Not a pleasant life. The book starts with her possibly escaping this life for the unknown.

The story does have a bit of a rough start but picks up fine. Many good story elements. New ideas all over the place, very nice. Now when it comes to stonewising it is so cryptic and muddled I still don't know the everyday uses of stonewising. Brief mentions of contracts and agreements late in the story are about it. At this time you are pretty deep into the book. If you keep me in the dark, please have a good reason. So I guess they are memory stones and that is about all I venture to say. Other greater powers show up late with just as little development. I really wanted to know more.

Intrigue and spots of romance as the book progresses. I liked the writing overall. Some reviews claim terrible writing but all I saw were minor errors. In fact I really liked this except for the lack of knowing about what is a main theme in the story, stonewising.

Looks like two more books at least and I am not sure whether to continue. And then I realize given how much I read plus the quality of my recent downloads that yes, who am I kidding. I will be reading the next one at least hoping they get even better. I have enough detail by the end to enjoy the story. Good read that was free even.

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Stephen Sedita

Great story and characters

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2013

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I found that the world and setting to be pretty unique. The whole stonewiser concept might not exactly be perfectly original, i.e. Psychometry certainly already exists, but these days that's not exactly an insult. The concept the author developed from it is unique and creates a good setting for good storytelling. The characters in this series are well developed and their relationships are also, for the most part, well developed as well. I read through the whole series in one week and was kinda sad when it was finished. I'd certainly recommend this book and the other stonewiser books as well for anyone even remotely interested in fantasy.

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2014

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This was an okay book. It had some interesting story lines & some interesting characters,
but I just found myself bored at times, wading through events that were drawn out too long.
When I was finished, I decided that I was just going to pretend that it was a stand alone book
& not read the rest of the series.

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Toddler Mom

Very slow boring beginning but a super fast, exciting, twisting last third of the book

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2014

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I was really bored at first with the stone wisings that didn't seem very interesting to me the reader. At the end of the book, the boring stone wisings become really important. Although some of the twists were a BIG stretch, the book was pretty good overall with new and unique ideas that I have not really seen/read before.

P.S. This book is very graphic with torture. So be forewarned.

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Vicky Kae

Imaginative and Impressive

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2013

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Sariah is a young woman, who can "wise" stones by retrieving the tales that others had imprinted there to hold hitstorical and personal memories. The only memories she holds of her own are from her time in the Guild, a place where the Old Blood rules from lessons learned by wising stones, mostly which hold contracts and legal documents. However, there are special stones, including twin stones, that hold special importance and significance. Sariah is one of the wisers who have suurvived the wising of twin stones, and that generates the larger part of this story.

With great trepidation and little choice, Sariah leaves the Guild to go with members of the Old Blood, who need a wiser after theirs died and left them without a means to wise their own collection of stones. Sariah suspects the Guild has not been truthful in their interpretations of their history as encased in the stones. As she lives and interacts with Kael, a man that "escaped" the guild with his two brothers, and other Old Blood members, she develops her own understanding of the stones and their influence on the different factions involved in the warring factions.

A good fantasy, Stonewiser is a book that provides an imaginative story line with adventure, adult romance, greed, and so much more. While parts of the story seem a bit farfetched, particularly the stoning scene, the book will keep the reader wanting to turn the pages to learn just a bit more until the last page is read with a great set up for potential future sequels.

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Melissa McMillan

I loved

Reviewed in Australia on August 28, 2015

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Well written , I loved it

rutoap

good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 28, 2012

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An interesting concept; memories inbedded in stones. I have found that, generally speaking, if a book is free but is part of a series for which you have to pay, it is well written and has an original story line.

I am looking forward to reading sequals.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 9, 2013

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