Buckley-Archer, Linda
The Many Lives of John Stone, 529 pgs.
Simon and Schuster, 2015.
$11.99 Content: Language: PG (1
swear); Mature Content: PG; Violence: PG.
Spark has been hired to catalog old manuscripts at a remote estate in
England. The man who hired her, John Stone,
has written his very long life story in notebooks, and has kept his ancestors
notebooks as well. He hopes that Spark
is the person he can trust with his family’s secret of a long life, but as John
Stone’s own life starts to catch up with him he realizes that Spark means more
to him that he thought.
This book had a
slow and disconnected beginning, but once the story started to come together, I
couldn’t put it down. It flashes between
John Stone’s life during the 1680’s in Versailles, and Spark’s life in current
day England and I found myself so involved in whichever story I was in I didn’t
want it to switch. I was disappointed in
the ending because I felt like it had a couple of loose ends. It’s quite a lengthy book and although I enjoyed
it I’m not sure young adults would stick with the slow beginning.
MS, HS – OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C, Peterson.
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