Just not my thing. Too much imagination not enough development. The Fire Opal was a beautiful prose but in aiming for young adult audiences it failed miserably. It was well written but unsuited for the YA genre in terms of plot and style. The characters while rich in backstory lacked personality and depth giving readers no way to sympathize with them. Maeve's age was the only young adult element. Although she was actually around 20 years she made strange naive choices. Tom was unexplainably evil and randomly 'attracted?' To the protagonist. Maeve lacked definition because we never truly got any emotion beyond anger or any personality revealing thoughts of hers . We simply didn't get inside the protagonists head. Some sections were rich in description but others such as Tom's demise were undetailed and almost noncommittal. Lastly, the plot was complex and full of imagination but revealed the intense antecedent action in rants that were confusing and difficult to process. Might work for adults, but young adults? No thanks.i Personally, I thought this book was overall just plain awful.I thought the characters were dull and forgettable, the main character, Mauve, cared more about a possibly dead Spaniard than the actual story,and Tom, the main villain,showed some promise at the beginning, but by the end he was just plain annoying. I thought the plot itself was lame and didn't keep readers engaged the way it should. This book was to rush at all the important parts and lingered to long on the boring insignificant parts. The author wrapped up the climax in less than ten pages and i don't remember most of it, but the whole first half of the book was concentrated on the Mauve's whinny problems. The end left the reader with to many unanswered questions, but even if there is was a sequel answering them, i would not read it. I would not recommend this book to anyone.
What do You think about The Fire Opal (2010)?
This book kept me interested the whole way through. I really enjoyed it.
—Dloo3ah
Its a very good book and tho I only started today am almost finished
—Remsony
one thing: i wish Franciso actually came back...Is he dead, or what?
—Amanda
The first book that I've ever read that is placed in Ireland!
—Ryanmd115
This book Is magical and has force of love in it.
—loveyou79
