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Palace of Stone
- Princess Academy, Book 2
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- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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The powerful city-state of Saraykeht is a bastion of peace and culture, a major center of commerce and trade. Its economy depends on the power of the captive spirit Seedless, an and at bound to the poet-sorcerer Heshai for life. Enter the Galts, an empire committed to laying waste to all lands with their ferocious army. Saraykeht has always been too strong for the Galts to attack, but now they see an opportunity.
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Tremontaine, Season One
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Great book, wrong narrator
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- Terrill
- 04-16-15
Great book
I love it👍❕😍
Easy to read
I read it in a day
I like the other books in the series
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- Elise
- 01-30-13
HATED the performance!
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
Maybe a child wouldn't mind the terrible, stilted performances of the various voice actors...
Who was your favorite character and why?
I loved Miri, as always. She is smart and real.
How could the performance have been better?
Let one person, an actual actor or voice-over actor, do the reading!!!! The people doing the various voices were so wooden and bad that I finally had to stop listening and just check the book out at the library.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
The book was great. Shannon Hale never disappoints. However, the reading performance made me more and more irritated, to the point that I couldn't stand to listen another minute.
Any additional comments?
I LOVE Shannon Hale and I love most audiobooks. But this recording was almost as bad as listening to Lemony Snicket read his own books--in other words, unpalatable!
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- Seon
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Palace of stone
This book is awesome series is very well written and read enjoyed it all love to hear more
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- Katherine
- 03-20-15
Not your typical princess tale
4.5 stars. Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.
Palace of Stone is a sequel to Shannon Hale’s excellent Newbery Honor-winning Middle Grade novel Princess Academy. You’ll definitely want to read Princess Academy first, and to avoid spoilers, you should read it before you read this review. So, if you haven’t read Princess Academy yet, go away and read it now. (Then come back, please.)
In Princess Academy, we met the poor hard-working uneducated families of Mount Eskel who survive by mining and carving linder, a valuable type of stone that they export to lowlanders. Their culture was changed when it was determined by lowlander priests that the next princess should come from Mount Eskel. To get the girls up to snuff, a “Princess Academy” was formed and all eligible Mount Eskel girls were enrolled.
(Here’s where spoilers for Princes Academy start. I hope those of you who haven’t read it yet are gone!)
Miri was one of the candidates for princess, but she wasn’t chosen by Prince Steffan. However, she did learn to read and write, to do math, and she learned a lot about commerce. She used her knowledge to help her village negotiate better trading terms for their linder, and Mount Eskel has prospered.
In Palace of Stone, Miri is invited by her friend Britta (the girl who was chosen to be princess) to come to the capital city and attend school at the Queen’s Castle. Peder, the boy she hopes to marry, will also be going to the capital to begin an apprenticeship with a master stone carver. As Miri travels to the city, she realizes that she is ignorant and rustic, and she’s worried about how she’ll represent her community. When she arrives, she not only experiences culture shock, but she discovers right away that the city is in a state of unrest and there are rumors of revolution. Soon she meets a boy named Timon who is eager to enlist Miri in the rebels’ cause. Miri is torn because the princess is her dear friend, yet she sees that the King and his nobles have been unjust as they lord it over the commoners and demand taxes and tributes that leave the people destitute.
Fortunately, Miri is studying history and ethics at her new school and her position as a student and a friend to both the princess and the rebels will give her the perfect chance to practice what she is learning. The problem is that this is not just an academic exercise. Peoples’ lives are at stake. If Miri speaks up, she endangers herself, the princess, many friends, and her community back home in Mount Eskel. It’s a weighty challenge for a teenager.
There’s a touch of romance in Palace of Stone, too, including a love triangle for Miri. She always thought she’d marry Peder, the sweet solid boy who just wants to learn to be a master carver and go back home to live on the mountain. He represents home for Miri. But Timon, who is kind, educated, well-traveled, and wants to make the world a better place, is equally appealing. Miri is torn between these two boys just as she is torn between her love of her mountain home and her desire to see and change the world. Miri’s romantic struggle is sweet and realistic but, while it takes up a lot of Miri’s thoughts, it’s (fortunately) not the focus of the plot.
Palace of Stone is an excellent Middle Grade story that will be enjoyed by both boys and girls, and by adults, too. It features strong female characters who make good role models for teenage girls. As with the first book, the value of education is emphasized while the importance of the usual “princess” qualities — especially beauty and femininity — are down-played. Even the importance of intelligence and wit is de-emphasized. Miri asks knowledgeable adults for advice and she struggles to solve problems by applying the lessons she has learned in school, especially from her studies of history and ethics. She worries about the ramifications of her actions and is not always courageous. She realizes that her motives, ethical standards, and feelings of bravery change depending on whether it is strangers or the people she loves who are suffering. Miri spends her time thinking about all these things rather than worrying about how her hair looks or what she’s going to wear.
Palace of Stone is an exciting and thoughtful story which I’ll be passing on to my young daughters. I’m sure they’ll enjoy it as much as I did. I listened to the audio version produced by AudioGo and Full Cast Audio. It was narrated by Cynthia Bishop and a cast of performers. This was a wonderful 8-hour production and even included music and singing. I highly recommend it.
The Forgotten Sisters, the third PRINCESS ACADEMY book, comes out in a couple of weeks. You can be sure that I’ll be reviewing it soon.
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- N. M.
- 03-23-13
Reviewed as a comparison to Princess Academy,Book1
I began with the first Princess Academy book and I loved it. Overall, Shannon Hale, with her other books (Enna Burning) is a great author.
The second book is a nice continuation of the first.
Pros
-I enjoyed the cute narration and musical quality that comes with Shannon Hale's audiobooks. The whole thing is a sensory experience and drew me into the story. I enjoy Full-Cast audio, multiple voices and sound effects. If you do too, then you will probably like this version.
-Cynthia Bishop, the narrator, emphasizes in the right places and shows that she really understands what she is reading.
-Teaches good morals for young girls (there is talk of muscles and dancing and kissing, so take that into consideration before letting young girls listen to this : ) *
Cons
-At times, the story felt boring. There is action, but it felt a little forced and I was left wanting more.
-Sometimes the music in the beginning was a little cheesy, even for me, because the songs at the beginning of some chapters sounded almost ridiculous (like someone imitating an Adam Sandler's Opera Man!)
-Many times when I thought the story would end, it kept going, as if the author couldn't decide on how to bring everything to a satisfying conclusion.
Overall, this was not Hale's best book (try Enna Burning), but it will not stop me from listening to her other titles. I enjoy the light-hearted purity of all of her stories. *It would be great for 6th graders to listen to.
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- Mackenzie Haynes
- 05-30-21
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The story is great and I would read it again, but the acting is something only a child would enjoy because it is too young. and I'm sorry but I hate the music between chapters because it pulls attention away from the story and feels as though the book is over every 20 min.
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- Bells
- 01-29-21
zero diversity of any kind
I think I would call this book quaint... well I read the first two books... besides one character with a limp arm there is no diversity of any kind there's no diversity of thinking no diversity of skin color no diversity of personality no diversity of genders no diversity of relationship types.
if you want to program your daughter to be a strong independent woman that believes that her life is supposed to be service and marriage then this series is great.
as someone who prefers to have a little bit more complexity and diversity in it... it didn't feel very satisfying.
it definitely teaches somebody to be brave and to take chances... but it also bases it on psychic abilities... And the people who don't have the psychic abilities don't act brave.
so although I did really enjoy these two books... honestly... I cannot recommend them.
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- Bruce
- 12-15-19
Fantasy with a reality vein
Though magic language of rock renders this a fantasy tale, the ability of emotions of young love to pull us in multiple ways is real. Separating passion for a person and a cause is such a common experience that it is a wonder that more fantasy writers haven't explored it. Great book, although we can only wish the happily ever after denoument could spill over into our world.
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- E.F.B.
- 08-03-18
Fun, fanciful, YA story
This is another well-done full-cast audiobook. Pardon any misspellings I make because I haven't actually seen the words or names. :)
Another very sweet and exciting story! I'm glad I discovered these books! It was great seeing Miri and friends continue to grow and explore beyond Mount Eskel, discovering who they are and what they want to do with their lives. I also loved a plot twist related to the royal family, the continuing use of quarry speech, and discovering new things about linder. Then there were the deeper themes about ethics, loyalty, the importance of history, and so on. Something I particularly appreciated was the value placed on human life in this book. While change needed to happen in the government in order to make things better for the people who were suffering, it was good to see Miri realizing that the ends DO NOT justify the means, and striving to find a balance between two extreme viewpoints and find a solution that didn't involve violence and the murder, and yet still brought the change that was needed. In our modern-day world where there are so many extreme viewpoints that, sadly, often result in violence in various forms, this concept of taking the time to really think and take ethical action instead of knee-jerk reactions is a concept I think should be put on display more often.
The only thing I could have done without was the love triangle. It wasn't the most prominent or infuriating triangle ever, and I do feel Miri learned some things from it, but A) I liked the guy from the first story a lot better (Sorry, I have no idea how to spell his name!) and B) I was feeling like the new guy was being awfully fast moving. Like, you've known her for how long and you're already proposing marriage?
Anyway, while I would have preferred Miri not be divided between two guys, that sub-plot didn't take away from things enough for me to subtract from my rating, and it worked out in a way I found satisfactory.
Content advisory for those who want to know
Violence: There was more violence and threatened violence in this book than in the first one, but none of it is graphic or gross. There were mobs who threatened violence and shot at people with guns, attempted assassinations mainly involving gunfire, non-descriptive mentions of fallen bodies after one attempted assassination, someone being held at gunpoint, someone actually being shot and a brief mention of blood, threats of execution, learning (in a non-descriptive way) about executions by beheading that happened in other cities due to violent revolution.
Swearing: None.
Infrequent name calling mainly included "stupid".
Sexual content: A few hand-kisses, a cheek kiss, about three kisses on the lips, two described in terms of warmth and racing hearts, the other not described at all. Hand-holding, nearness, and the warmth these things cause are mentioned.
Worldviews: Like in the first book, there are very brief mentions of a "Creator God", mentions of chapels and going to chapels, but I don't recall any description related to methods of worship or anything along those lines, and we see nothing in relation to individual character's faith or lack thereof.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-18-22
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Loved it more than words can describe! Sometimes though it wouldn't play for an unknown reason but I really don't care it was just an amazing book to listen to!
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