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    The Jewel and Her Lapidary
    The Jewel and Her Lapidary
    The Jewel and Her Lapidary
    Audiobook1 hour

    The Jewel and Her Lapidary

    Written by Fran Wilde

    Narrated by Mahvesh Murad

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The kingdom in the Valley has long sheltered under the protection of its Jewels and Lapidaries, the people bound to singing gemstones with the power to reshape hills, move rivers, and warp minds. That power has kept the peace and tranquility, and the kingdom has flourished.

    Jewel Lin and her Lapidary Sima may be the last to enjoy that peace.

    The Jeweled Court has been betrayed. As screaming raiders sweep down from the mountains, and Lapidary servants shatter under the pressure, the last princess of the Valley will have to summon up a strength she’s never known. If she can assume her royal dignity, and if Sima can master the most dangerous gemstone in the land, they may be able to survive.

    PRAISE FOR THE JEWEL AND HER LAPIDARY AND FRAN WILDE
    “The Jewel and Her Lapidary is a splendid tale of courage and transformation in a world as exquisite as Wilde's prose. You will be utterly entranced.”
    -- Ken Liu, Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award winner and author of The Grace of Kings

    “Extraordinary world-building and cascading levels of intrigue make Wilde’s debut fantasy novel soar.”
    --Publishers Weekly on Updraft

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateMay 24, 2016
    ISBN9781427273901
    The Jewel and Her Lapidary
    Author

    Fran Wilde

    Two-time Nebula Award-winner Fran Wilde’s novels and short stories have been finalists for six Nebula Awards, a World Fantasy Award, four Hugo Awards, three Locus Awards, and a Lodestar. They include her Nebula- and Compton Crook Award-winning debut novel Updraft, and her Nebula award-winning, Best of NPR 2019, debut Middle Grade novel Riverland. Her short stories appear in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature, Uncanny Magazine, and multiple years' best anthologies. Fran teaches for the Genre Fiction MFA concentration at Western Colorado University and the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She also writes nonfiction for publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Tor.com. You can find her on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and at franwilde.net.

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    • 4/5
      Good story, interesting world and characters. I'd like to read more set in this world, and think the book may have benefitted from an extra 100 pages or so. The only problem is that in the audiobook lines kept being repeated that were really jarring. I didn't mark the rating down for this because it's not the authors fault, but I think I would have enjoyed it more if I'd read it or listened to an audiobook that didn't have this fault.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed the story, though it didn't feel fully resolved until you consider the beginning chapters of the guidebook and infer the conclusion. It's honestly short enough I wondered if this was the entire book. This didn't factor into my review, but there are also multiple repetitive lines which threw me out of the story when it'd happen but that isn't the story or author's fault.
    • 4/5
      I just read this on a whim while I was looking for a Fran Wilde book to read. I find her writing style a little difficult to get into, but she's such a respected writer in the SFF circles, I decided to give it another go. This was a very interesting short story.