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Title: The Blessing Stone by Barbara Wood ISBN: 0-312-27534-X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 20 January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: most engrossing book I've ever read
Comment: I loved this book. It had something for everyone. It was part clan of the cave bear, part history novel, part romance, part fantasy and a really good read. The book is divided into several vignettes that follow a central character's journey. I worry I'll never find anything as good as this again.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not her best book
Comment: I am a huge fan of Ms Wood's books, but was a bit disappointed by The Blessing Stone.
My criticism is mostly about the two prehistoric stories.
1) Why is she explaining constantly about the things the people in the first book did not have any knowledge of? It seems a little patronizing towards the reader.
2) Is it really true that up to the time when the second books ends (10.000-8.000 BC?) people did not have any idea where babies came from?
The rest of the stories was better, but still not up to her usual standards. Maybe Ms. Wood was limited by the short stories? I liked Sacred Ground, The Dreaming, The Prophetess, Perfect Harmony, Green City in the Sun and Virgins of Paradise much, much better and am looking forward to her next full length novel!
Rating: 4
Summary: Fine historical collection
Comment: Three million years ago, a meteorite journeyed through the atmosphere of the third orb around the sun. The remnants of the meteorite crash on the planet leaving as its survivor a blue crystal. 100,000 years ago in Africa, The Tall One finds the crystal that somehow saves the life of her ailing Old Mother. Over the millenniums, the gem is passed from one generation to another, ultimately crossing the Mediterranean to Europe, eventually to the Middle East, and finally the Atlantic during the California Gold Rush to America. A hundred plus years later in an upstate New York hamlet the jewel resurfaces on the handle of a hippy's roach clip.
THE BLESSING STONE is actually an anthology consisting of eight solid tales that are tied together by the blue stone. The stories are well written though a few are obvious as to what will happen. The three BC "books" are incredible while the Roman and Dark Ages tales are terrific. Though the remaining trio is well done, they feel too "modern" (even with one in the sixteenth century) to focus on the mystical jewel until that 1969 farm with a half of million strong. Still Barbara Wood provides an engaging history of the world.
Harriet Klausner
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Title: Sacred Ground by Barbara Wood ISBN: 0312982526 Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Pub. Date: 16 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Green City in the Sun by Barbara Wood ISBN: 0330307231 Publisher: Pan Books - Macmillan UK Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Curse This House by Barbara Wood ISBN: 0751517224 Publisher: Little Brown UK Ltd Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: The Prophetess: A Novel by Barbara Wood ISBN: 0316816523 Publisher: Little Brown & Co Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Dreaming by Barbara Wood ISBN: 0380715937 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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