I truly liked the first book in this series. The idea of being in love with the soul of a person rather than the physical body was just such a novel concept that it immediately drew me in. The first novel, too, was an enchanting mix of the quixotic with old world, traditional storylines. You know, fairy kings, dastardly villains, a dancer girl, a Jane Eyresque romance story – so you can understand why I was so keen to check out Magic Under Stone. I felt that I would be in store for another installment of the loveliness that so enchanted me in the first novel. Unfortunately, I didn’t get that. Nimira didn’t just not retain the charm she had in the first book, she went one step ahead and became one of the most annoying, self-absorbed protagonists I have had the misfortune of reading. Her treatment of Erris’s niece turned me off completely and I really don’t understand what happened.Erris becomes a cardboard character – in fact, the entire novel felt to me a series of incidences forcibly linked together to create a facsimile of a continuous narrative. Me no gusta. I don’t know whether it is me who has changed as a reader or it is the writing in the book that has changed. I just found Nimi’s whining about Erris’s inability to move their relationship into a physical realm grating as well as her “flirting” with her ex-fiance. But don’t trust my word for it, make up your mind. I am sure there are other people who liked it and perhaps they’d offer you a better look into it. I, however, did not find it to my liking.
 - Jaclyn Dolamore)