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product_id: 20160048
title: "Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Book 2) Mass Market Paperback – August 6, 1991"
brand: "tad williams"
price: "A$41"
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reviews_count: 8
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# Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Book 2) Mass Market Paperback – August 6, 1991

**Brand:** tad williams
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- **What is this?** Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Book 2) Mass Market Paperback – August 6, 1991 by tad williams
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great book!
  

*by L***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 27, 2023*

This book arrived in the best condition and was early in arriving as well! This seller is the best! Can't say enough good things or recommend them highly enough!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    And now we really get moving...
  

*by L***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 1, 2009*

As the second novel in Tad Williams four part trilogy, "memory, Sorrow and Thorn" "The Stone of Farewell" suffers from very few of the defects that made the first book, "The Dragonbone Chair" kind of hard to like-at least in it's first forth or so.From page one this book is all action. Josua Lackhand, the high king's brother, stronghold has been broken by his brothers new and very deadly and evil allies the Norns-along with one of the red hand, the Storm king's undead five fellows. Josua himself escaped with a very small band of followers but in the falling of the castle not only men were lost-precious knowledge and the last remaining master of the league of the scroll are gone- leaving massive riddles to be untangled.But nothing can be figured out if there is no safe haven for Josua's people. And so along the increasingly unsafe dream road and through wise women and men it is passed that they must go to the stone of farewell-an old Sithi gathering place where they can regroup. But first they must win their way through the oldest and deepest of Osten Ard's forests and across leagues held by unfriendly peoples.Simon and his mixed bad of human, troll and Sithi seekers succeeded in their quest for the great sword Thorn in the frozen north but a high toll was taken by the minions of the Norn Queen and an ancient ice dragon. But their mission is by no means over-many things hinder the group in returning the sword to Josua.Miriamele, the high king Elias' daughter, abandoned her father in favor of her uncle but is determined not to sit about and wait-so she took off for Nabban, the lands her mother hails from to try and gain support for Josua's cause-with only a corrupt and highly secretive monk Cadrach, who has an extremely mysterious past. Once again Miriamele travels as a black haired boy instead of a blond noblewoman- but even in disguise a princess may be recognized-and used as a powerful bargaining chip...And in the swamp lands of Osten Ard-a place called the Wran-a man named Tiamak sends and receives small gray birds of the very kind used by the scroll league-but of the very little news he receives from the few members still answering him, all is troubling and indicates he may have to leave his enclosed society behind and seek out things he has only every dreamed of.Filtered through the rest of the book are more questions-about the Sithi, about the three great swords and how to use them, about the Storm King-about the very nature of Osten Ard itself. And more then one battle-as nearly all free people in the nation have come under attack from Elias and those loyal to him.Like I said this book moves at a breakneck pace. From crisis to crisis, fight to fight and flight to flight we follow the action of this wonderfully complicated story. The characterization remains very real (especially Simon's continued evolution from boy to man, mooncalf to, well, man) the detailed description of the landscape is almost unreal and the shivery nature of the threat faced is almost leaping off the pages.It may have taken him a while but when William's got this story moving he really got it moving!Five stars.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Decent Middle Book Of A Trilogy
  

*by D***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 29, 2012*

The Stone of Farewell is Tad Williams' middle book in his epic fantasy saga Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn.  It is a definite improvement of the first book, though it doesn't shake off all of the first book's ills.The prose is much improved.  Williams finally finds his knack for incredibly descriptive and oddly intriguing metaphors.  Gone are the obtuse puzzlers from the first book.  Williams' ability to compare unlike things to really draw a mental picture is quite good and will leave you with some very striking imagery.Having said that, the editing is still terrible.  Misplaced punctuation marks, especially periods, really break up the flow and pull you out of the moment.  As with the first one, I'm not sure if this is just poor editing or a byproduct of converting the paperback to the Kindle edition, but it's terrible.The plot and characterization are a mixed bag, but the bad parts aren't so unpleasant as to drive you away from the book.  The pacing is still very off, which I think drives the oddities with the plot and characters.  Williams spends a lot of time showing that Simon, now a more mature young man (sort of), is still just a teenage scullion-turned-warrior who doesn't want to get up early, doesn't feel like saving the world, just wants to go home to be a scullion again.  While intriguing at first, by the end of the book Williams presents so many examples of this that eventually you get tired of Simon's whining and just want to reach through the book and slap him.  Even by the end of the book, after all the horrors Simon has lived through, he still acts like a whiny brat at times.  Williams drags Simon's hero's journey out just a little too long, making Simon's in-between phases just a little too pronounced.  This seems to throw the character into fits of going a little out of character one way when he's been acting the other.Miriamele's journey with Cadrach is another example of a plot line drawn farther out than it should have.  At first, the odd pairing of a princess with a drunkard, thieving priest seems interesting, but after the umpteenth time that Cadrach gets drunk and does something shady to or with Miriamele, you begin to wonder when it's all going to come together.In all, the second book does a serviceable job of what most "middle of the trilogy" books should do:  It serves as a bridge between the first and third books, getting the characters from the end of book one to the beginning of book three.  If the entire book could have been trimmed by 50 or so pages, it would've been splendid.

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