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    The Stone Light

    By Kai Meyer

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    Deadly magic and malice threaten Merle and Serafin in this breathtaking sequel to The Water Mirror.

    Merle -- carrying the mysterious Flowing Queen within her -- and Vermithrax, the winged stone lion, are flying into Hell. They are looking for help in freeing Venice from the invading Egyptian pharaoh and his mummy warriors. But some truly nightmarish surprises await them as they travel to the center of Hell and encounter its sinister ruler -- Lord Light.

    Serafin remains in Venice, where the gorgeous sphinx Lalapeya recruits him into a plot to assassinate the pharaoh. But does Lalapeya really believe a small group of boys can outwit the cunning sphinx commanders and kill the most powerful man on earth? Betrayal lurks in unexpected places, and startling revelations occur as Merle and Serafin learn that evil takes many shapes in the astonishing world of Dark Reflections.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMargaret K. McElderry Books
    Release dateJun 25, 2008
    ISBN9781439108789
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    Kai Meyer

    Kai Meyer is one of Germany's most successful authors, with millions of books sold worldwide. His novels have been translated into thirty languages. The British edition of The Flowing Queen (published in the U.S. as The Water Mirror) won the 2007 Marsh Award for Best Children's Book in Translation, and his historical novel The Vow was turned into a movie by celebrated German director Dominik Graf. Kai lives in Germany

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    • 3/5
      I liked this better than The Water Mirror, probably because Meyer slows down on the worldbuilding and focuses on telling a story with the characters and settings he's already established. A lot of action—not surprisingly—and while I would've liked more character development, Meyer put in some twists I wasn't expecting, and I appreciated that.
    • 5/5
      Habe ich Band 1 noch als Kinder- oder Jugendfantasy bezeichnet, bilden meiner Ansicht nach klar Jugendliche das Zielpublikum des zweiten Bandes - was auch hier nicht heißt, dass das Buch nicht auch für Erwachsene schön zu lesen wäre!In "Das steinerne Licht" steigen Merle und ihre Begleiter hinab in die Hölle um von Lord Licht, dem Herrn der Hölle, um Unterstützung bei der Verteidigung Venedigs gegen die Ägypter zu erbitten. Ein riskantes Vorhaben, nicht zuletzt weil die Venezianer sein Angebot am Ende des ersten Bandes auf drastische Weise, nämlich durch die Exekution des Höllenboten, ausgeschlagen hatten. Während der Erzählstrang um Merle, Vermithrax und die fließende Königin spannend und liebevoll erzählt wird, haben mich die Sprünge zu den Geschehnissen in Venedig und somit Serafins Erlebnisse etwas gestört. Ich fand sie weniger interessant und wollte stets lieber wieder in das Wesen der Hölle und das Geheimnis um das steinerne Licht eintauchen. Daher ein halber Stern Abzug.
    • 4/5
      Picks up right after the Water Mirror taking Merle to Hell to ask Lord Light for help while Seraphim works with the rebels in Venice against the Egyptians. Ends a bit abruptly, but has great narration.
    • 3/5
      I dont know how I feel about this second installment of Kai Meyer's Dark Reflections Trilogy. I loved book one and felt that the initiation into the story held promise for a wonderful experience. There was so much enchantment in book one. The romantic and mysterious Venice, with all it's darkness and sensuality, provided a unique setting for a fantasy world. The author started us out with great characters that were developed well so that we began to like them and to look forward to their adventures. The writing was also well crafted in Water Mirror, I thought this second book lacked both advanced writing and the additional character development that was needed. This installment was just plain goofy. I'm not sure if I felt like Alice falling down the rabbit hole, or Dorothy on the Yellowbrick road to Oz. The story picks up right after the first book ends. It takes us on alternating rollercoaster rides of action scenes between Seraphin, Eft, and the Sphinx battling the Egyptians who are trying to invade Venice, and with Merle, the Floating Queen and Vermithrax the flying lion, that have decended into Hell to try and obtain help from Lord Light. Back and forth from one to the other, the reader gets non-stop, often dizzing action and fantasy scenes with no substance to support it. These scenes are not interesting, they get very tedious, and basically the story does not develop much since book one. I felt like this whole book could have been cut into just a few chapters, so we could then get on with the grand finale coming up in book three. I also found that the whole invention of The Floating Queen's character, made no sense. She adds no value to the story, her character is often sarcastic and does not aid Merle in her quest at all. She is more of a hinderence to Merle and I fail to understand her purpose other than to be annoying. There was also a few quirky translation issues where certain words or phrases were in error due to the translator not chosing the correct terminolgy appropriate for the sentence or content. I'm disappointed and I didn't enjoy this much at all. It was bizarre to say the least. I do like creativity and the author usually delivers it, but there was almost too much weirdness and too many totally strange creatures that you could hardly visualize. My opinion is that this series should have been a duet, not a trilogy. I will go on to read the finale of book three to see how it ends and because I did enjoy the first book, but this..I don't know. Kinda goofy! I'm very glad that I read the author's later Wave Walker Trilogy first or I might not have tried it if I read Dark Reflections first. I can see that with Wave Walkers, the writer became more polished with his writing and is now much more talented than when he wrote this Dark Reflections.
    • 4/5
      The adventure continues after The Water Mirror with amazing creatures and scenarios - a trip through Hell on the back of an Obsidian Lion is just one part. I can't wait for the next one that should come out sometime in 2008.