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Songstone Lena Goldfinch Books

First, I would like to thank the author for sharing her work for a fair and honest review.

Songstone is intended to be the tale of a storyteller in a world where written language appears to be nonexistent. The first 60 pages of the novel were intriguing as the author introduced the theme of the journeyman and the evil wiles of Matiko. I was impressed with the characterization of Matiko in the beginning. I did enjoy some of the imagery the author used from time to time to paint a picture. The writing style was sufficient and competent with very few errors/typos, even though far too many sentences began unnecessarily with subordinate clauses and participial phrases that detracted from significant moments which would have been more powerful with less wordiness.

I was disappointed with the large amount of narrative and the lack of dialogue. There must be a healthy balance of both. Conversations are what drive a novel, for these are the moments when characters' personalities thrive and people in stories connect. I had a hard time feeling any kind of significant connection between Kita and the other characters because of the lack of substantial and meaningful conversations, thus leading to lack of characterization. Many of the characters, such as Noni, were simply forgettable because of this.

What bothered me the most was that the tale of the storyteller and the journeyman was left by the wayside for so long. The entire time Kita and Pono were with the Huwi, their true mission was not once mentioned. In fact, it was completely forgotten. This caused Pono to become a very inconsistent and unbelievable character. His urgency that he MUST return to his village as soon as possible simply vanished. Thus, he was not true to his calling. There should have been more desperation on his part to get away from the Huwi and back on task. It simply wasn't there.

The Huwi section of the book actually developed an entirely unrelated story that, in my opinion, might have been better delivered as a sequel. The author simply tried to jam too much into this book, failing to take time to fully develop one main storyline with believable characters and events.

And the one question that has plagued me is why Puakoa didn't just take the eight day journey to the far village to visit her daughter and meet her grandchildren instead of waiting five years for a journeyman? This caused the purpose of the storyteller, and thus the songstone, to become somewhat insignificant.

*By the way, I did change my rating from a 2 to a 3 star when I saw how ratings are weighed differently between amazon.com and goodreads.com. They now both reflect a fair and equal rating.

Casey Hays
Author of The Cadence


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Songstone Lena Goldfinch Books Reviews

This book reminded me so much of my aunt and uncle's missionary stories of the jungle in Papua New Guinea, which made me love the book even more for its somewhat realistic setting. The description of the jungle and the natives' belief in magic rang true to the beliefs of the real tribal people. The main difference, however, is that the magic described in this book really exists for the characters. The threat of evil magic is not a legend or fairytale but a real-life issue that the main character, Kita, deals with daily. But she has a little magic of her own.

I admire Kita for her change during the book. She is slowly able to overcome her self-image problems and anger because of her abused childhood. That is a hard thing to do. Although, Pono did have a good deal to do with this change.

The ability to meld song into stone is really unique! I had never heard of magic like that before. Being able to start a fire with a wave of your hand is not new, nor is leaving your body and flying or entrancing people. But melding song into stone is a new and intriguing concept for me. Lena Goldfinch's use of New Zealand's folklore was a lovely choice.

And the storyline was exciting and surprising, I might add!

I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
An intense island tale!

I love, love, love the imagery and beauty within every novel or novella I have read from Goldfinch. It awakens the imagination and immerses you into the story. This quality makes Goldfinch's books stand out in a great way. But scenery aside, the rest of the novel was good too.

Kita, whose head we are in for the duration of Songstone, embarks on both an internal and an external journey. Overall I felt it was well written, given the circumstances Kita had to overcome. She's the kind of character you root for and hurt alongside with. That being said, I loathed Matiko. If you want me to despise a villain, then make him a voo-doo, black magic, healer/priest.

Let's talk about Matiko. Yes, as I stated above he dabbles frequently in black magic using Kita's blood most of the time. He uses a spell to restrain her while he steals her blood. Not very much, but a few drops at a time. This disturbed me more than I thought it would. Due to the high amounts of this black magic, I wish we could have seen more of a light to contrast the darkness. Unlike her previous books, God wasn't as present in this one as the others, which disappointed me a bit. I definitely caution readers for this one because, understandably, this topic isn't for everyone.

I'll wrap up this review talking about Pono and then my general summary. He was really endearing, albeit incredibly frustrating/confusing at times. I loved how he honored his word. Integrity is so very admirable in any character. Songstone is described as dark tale mixed with romance and adventure, and that description is very accurate. However the amount of black magic we see and the lack of a clear light against the dark bothered me. I recommend to teens fifteen and older who are looking for an adventure.

I received an ebook copy of this book from Amber Stokes in return for an honest review of my opinions, which I have done. Thanks!!
Amazing I love the characters. And the way tge author presented them throughout the book you have no choice but to love them
First, I would like to thank the author for sharing her work for a fair and honest review.

Songstone is intended to be the tale of a storyteller in a world where written language appears to be nonexistent. The first 60 pages of the novel were intriguing as the author introduced the theme of the journeyman and the evil wiles of Matiko. I was impressed with the characterization of Matiko in the beginning. I did enjoy some of the imagery the author used from time to time to paint a picture. The writing style was sufficient and competent with very few errors/typos, even though far too many sentences began unnecessarily with subordinate clauses and participial phrases that detracted from significant moments which would have been more powerful with less wordiness.

I was disappointed with the large amount of narrative and the lack of dialogue. There must be a healthy balance of both. Conversations are what drive a novel, for these are the moments when characters' personalities thrive and people in stories connect. I had a hard time feeling any kind of significant connection between Kita and the other characters because of the lack of substantial and meaningful conversations, thus leading to lack of characterization. Many of the characters, such as Noni, were simply forgettable because of this.

What bothered me the most was that the tale of the storyteller and the journeyman was left by the wayside for so long. The entire time Kita and Pono were with the Huwi, their true mission was not once mentioned. In fact, it was completely forgotten. This caused Pono to become a very inconsistent and unbelievable character. His urgency that he MUST return to his village as soon as possible simply vanished. Thus, he was not true to his calling. There should have been more desperation on his part to get away from the Huwi and back on task. It simply wasn't there.

The Huwi section of the book actually developed an entirely unrelated story that, in my opinion, might have been better delivered as a sequel. The author simply tried to jam too much into this book, failing to take time to fully develop one main storyline with believable characters and events.

And the one question that has plagued me is why Puakoa didn't just take the eight day journey to the far village to visit her daughter and meet her grandchildren instead of waiting five years for a journeyman? This caused the purpose of the storyteller, and thus the songstone, to become somewhat insignificant.

*By the way, I did change my rating from a 2 to a 3 star when I saw how ratings are weighed differently between and goodreads.com. They now both reflect a fair and equal rating.

Casey Hays
Author of The Cadence