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Guardians of the Tall Stones

Moyra Caldecott

Caldecott, Moyra. Guardians of the Tall Stones. Celestial Arts. Great

Britain, England. 1986.

The breath-taking novel, The Tall Stones, is the first book in Moyra

Caldecott’s mysterious and thrilling trilogy The Sacred Stones. It is

so outstanding and descriptive novel that once the reader starts to

read it, they won’t be able to set it down. They will want to attempt

to unravel the secrets of the tall stones.

In the novel The Tall Stones, there is a world guarded by people

called the guardians in which one does not age; it is connected by a

portal with our own. Alana, Kyan, Fabien and Tanya, a group of

outsiders, try to uncover the baffling secrets of the world of the

tall stones.

Zarek, the head of the world explorers group, has sent many outsiders

to go risk their lives to try to get past the guardians, and enter the

world of the tall stones. Alana, Kyan, Tanya, and Fabien are the last

outsiders willing to try. The outsiders approach the tall stones

slyly, but the guardians are too quick. The guardians capture the

four, and the outsiders almost die.

Alana, Kyan, Fabien, and Tanya explain to Zarek that the guardians are

much smarter than they had originally thought. Zarek is worried that

the outsiders will give up, but the four conjure up an ingenious plan

to go unseen by the guardians, so they can enter the portal to the

other world.

The four outsiders face many challenges against the guardians, as they

slowly put together the puzzling secrets behind the thrilling mystery

of the world of the tall stones.

Moyra Caldecott’s vivid adventure, The Tall Stones, is a fabulous

fiction novel that will captivate the reader’s mind until the very

last page. Once the reader is finished with the book, the reader will

feel a need to rush to the library and pick up the next book in The

Sacred Stones Trilogy. Though a little confusing at first because of

the many different points of views, this novel is a must read.

4 out of 5 stars

Contributed by C. Swanson

May 6th, 2011