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The Stone Eater

The Magic Eaters Trilogy, Book 3

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The Stone Eater

By: Carol Beth Anderson
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The exhilarating, romantic conclusion to The Magic Eaters Trilogy, a dystopian YA fantasy series like no other.

Can Nora take her father’s crown...before his dark magic takes her life?

Ulmin Abrios, King of Cellerin, has gone mad. He’s invading and terrorizing his own cities.

Princess Nora, his estranged daughter, is determined to seize the crown and save her people. Along with her boyfriend Ovrun and her friends Krey and Sarza, she secretly returns to Cellerin.

As she plots to take down her father, Nora wrestles with her desire to find love. She knows how confining life in the palace will be. Could Ovrun - or any man - ever truly embrace the restrictive life of a king?

Touring her land on a dragon’s back, Nora builds a vast team of supporters. But Ulmin’s mind is decimated by forbidden magic, and he’ll use any weapon, from torture to mental slavery, to protect himself. Even against his daughter.

With both the crown and her heart at stake, Nora must give her all to defeat her father. Otherwise, his tyranny will overwhelm the land...giving Nora no escape but death.

Buy The Stone Eater today and devour the final course of this epic series!

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The ending to a series is always bittersweet! So many things you have been wanting to see for books finally happen! But so many things you didn’t want to happen, happens as well! If you are a fan of this series you must find out how it ends!!

Bittersweet

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A couple of twists and turns, but definitely a heart-wrenching story. This continuation has a lot more of Nora's father's perspective. The pain of the conflict and all the love that gets twisted is at times hard to hear, but it has a very happy ending.

A Happy Beginning

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Nora and her friends have come a very long way since the first book. Now they have built allies and made numerous plans but whether they are strong enough to defeat the King is still in question.
Throughout the book there are snippets of letters from Nora's mother. It was lovely to get something from her perspective, as a young girl meeting her possible future husband, the King. It's quite a long book but you do feel like there is always something happening and you get invested in the lives of the characters. I really have to sympathise with Sarza's character in the book. Considering the huge job they have, trying to overthrow a mind controlling, super-powerful King, most of the other characters do spend a LOT of time talking about their girlfriends and boyfriends. If they cut out most of the love angst I would have enjoyed the book a lot more.

Nora and her friends have come a very long way sin

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4.5 stars
I’m still processing everything that happened in this book. And it was a lot!
This was a great book. Great story, great writing, great cover (I really like all the covers in the series!). I was expecting a great end to a series. I got it. And more!
Interesting, important things to think about, lots of things to highlight and underline, difficult relationships, lovable yet sometimes stupid characters, more dragons, unicorns (I think I highlighted every time they appeared because I was so excited!), more magic, battles and their aftermaths and I could go on for a long while.
The author made some unexpected bold choices and, although it took a while to get used to them, I think I agree the story was better this way. Also, more close to real life in a way because the unexpected happens and not everything that ends in a pretty bow starts that way.
This is probably a little ramble-y but it is because I really liked the book so much.
I listened to most of this in audiobook and read the rest. The book is read by the author and, if you listen to audiobooks, you should give this one a try because it was really well done and gave even more life to the story.
All in all, a very good book in all aspects you could ask for. I’m seriously pondering ordering physical copies of the whole series so I could have them all and have another excuse to read everything again. Also, I’m chastising myself for not having read the prequel yet. I think I just don’t want the series to end.

I received an ARC of this book as well as an audio copy from the author. All opinions are freely given and my own.

An amazing end to a great trilogy

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i have really enjoyed this series and sad to see it end but the author did a great job with the conclusion and rounding everything out, no one likes ending a story with more questions. the author did a good job on narration. I'd recommend this series to most ages.

great conclusion

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