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Title: Blood from Stone
Subtitle: A Retrievers Novel
Author: Laura Anne Gilman
Narrator: Emma Woodbine
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-01-09
Publisher: Harlequin Books S.A.
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 37 votes
Genres: Romance, Fantasy
Publisher's Summary:
Not likely.
Because when you're good, trouble always finds you. Wren's next assignment puts her on the wrong side of a child-snatcher--and a collision course with her past. But to save a friend--and protect her future--Wren must pull off the most important Retrieval of her life...and for once magic isn't on her side.
Members Reviews:
the quality of the editing as the series progresses gets worse and worse
READ IT.
The only thing you might get irked by is the increasing amount of sentences starting with "But" as the series progresses. (I mean, it gets absurd). Also, the quality of the editing as the series progresses gets worse and worse, as if the publisher was focusing more on cranking the novels out on schedule than making sure they were ready to be published. That being said, as long as the funky editing towards the last couple books doesn't throw you off too badly, the series is amazing, like almost nothing I've read before.
Five Stars
Love this book series
The story continues!!
Really good action, mystery, and character interactions! The usual best from Laura Anne Gilman.
This is 6th in the series and it does need to be read from the beginning of the series for the most enjoyment. The stories are stand-a-lone, but the character development and background from the earlier stories areimportant.
good reading
If you like this kind of book it makes for great reading. Hated putting it down to go to bed.
Enjoyable, if not perfect.
Wren Valere is a Retriever. Using her Talent to channel "current", she performs what an everyday joe would call magic. Usually, she can get in, retrieve what the client has requested, and get out, no strings attached. This retrieval is special. She must obtain the notes of the mad scientist who created one of her best friends-P.B., a "demon" who has saved her life more than once-before those notes are grabbed by people who would enslave him.
There are actually a couple of stories going on here. Early in the book, Wren encounters the familiar scent of her mentor and father-figure, Ebenezer, whom she had previously presumed dead. Don't get me wrong, I love Gilman, and I enjoyed this book; however, this plot line suffered from too much tell and not enough show. I felt hammered with repetitive ruminations about Neezer and what he meant to Wren. I got it after the first couple shots, really. It seems space was wasted here that would have been better spent in the heads of the bad guys from the primary plot.
That said, this book is still some lovely stuff. I enjoyed the interstitials with Sergei in therapy. Wren and Sergei have long been a favorite fictional couple, and it's nice to see them working on normal (relatively) relationship stuff. I always favor series with non-magical romances; nothing is forced by fate. No "I knew she was my lifemate the moment I scented her" claptrap.
The main plot, though it needed more bad-guy time, is also a keeper. We find out more about P.B.'s mysterious past, with a hint that there may be a little more Talent science in the future. In addition, a nifty new character, in the form of a curious Federal agent, is introduced.
While I wouldn't exactly call this book a break, it is a lot less frantic than the last two, and that's completely welcome.