Stoneheart

When I finished reading the Twilight series, as I mentioned before, I felt empty…just kidding, I did feel sad the story was over, but it was time to move on my reading and start involving in another story. It wasn’t hard to do it. There’s a lot of books waiting out there for me to read them. This one, in particular, called my attention for the cover, because it had a sticker saying “ Movie coming soon” Fantasy, bestseller and a movie coming soon? My golden dream…So I bought it.

The story gets you as soon as u start reading the first chapters and makes you wonder many things. The main idea of the book is that all the statues out there based on something or on someone, have a life, they are impregnated with the essence of that being in who they are base on. There are good statues called “ Vitratos “ ( I don’t know the word in English as I read the book in Spanish) and bad ones called “ Maculas”. They all have life, but almost nobody can see them. So it makes you wonder why this boy called George can? And even more interesting why, he can just see them suddenly when before he couldn’t do it. Why are the macula’s chasing him?... I like and believe in the idea of life in a parallel dimension…hove you ever felt somebody is watching you? You feel that tickling on your back of a sight, and then turn around and there’s nothing there? And Even when you see and know there’s nobody there you still feel there’s someone or something staring at you?...Is someone in another parallel dimension.

I would call this “Light” reading, as it is easy to read and to comprehend. I like the fact of the chapters being short because I don’t like to stop in the middle of a chapter and continue after; I always finish one chapter before stop reading.

I really can’t wait to see this book turned into a movie. It has action from beginning to end. It is adventurous and meaningful. It left me wanting to read the 2 following parts but they are not out in Mexico yet, so I’ll have to wait until I move to most consuming country: USA.
The story happens in London, so if you’ve been there before you’d be familiar with all the places and the actual statues as they really exist there.
On a school trip to the Natural History Museum in London, a 12-year-old loner named George is banished for something he didn't do. Angry, he lashes out and breaks off a dragon's head carved onto the wall of the museum. Next thing he knows, a pterodactyl carving comes to life and begins to chase him. From Gunner, a walking, talking statue, George learns that he has entered another layer of reality, and that his arrival has started a new war between good spits (statues that are imbued with a soullike essence by their inspired makers) and evil taints (soulless carvings). With the advice of various spits, and the companionship of a girl named Edie, George seeks answers from two Sphinx statues, whose enigmatic clues lead the pair into a terrifying adventure. Creatively building on the plentiful gargoyles and other creepy stonework of its urban setting, this lengthy novel, the first in a planned trilogy, will draw capable readers for its suspenseful chase scenes, scary creatures, and highly original premise. Tixier Herald, Diana