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Reader reviewed by Jocelyn

The Prophecy Of The Stones, by Flavia Bujour (who wrote this novel when she was thirteen) is a decent try for a first novel written by a thirteen-year-old. It's nothing to get too excited about, but it's not terrible, especially considering the author's age when she wrote it. In the book, three teenage girls have a destiny to fulfill an ancient prophecy. They learn of it on the day of their fourteenth birthdays, and set out on a journey through magical worlds with only three magical stones. The book also talks about a parallel world where another girl lies ill in a Paris hospital. When she sleeps, she visits the magical world, where a battle is going on. Whether they succeed or fail determines whether she will recover.

I admire anyone who, at the age of thirteen, can write a 386 page novel, but I think she might have been better off to wait until she could write something a little better.

The writing is decent, but the plot and characters don't seem to have a lot of depth to them. The addition of the sick girl in Paris seems like a rather obvious effort to add originality to this not so original fantasy novel. It does not succeed.

Better next time, Flavia Bujour.