{"id":2152,"date":"2021-01-27T15:57:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T20:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2021-01-03T15:59:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T20:59:58","slug":"vault-review-the-shadowmask-by-r-a-and-geno-salvatore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=2152","title":{"rendered":"Vault Review: The Shadowmask by R.A. and Geno Salvatore"},"content":{"rendered":"

**Vault Reviews were posted previously on the main MonsterLibrarian website and are transferred here in an effort to preserve our history. Efforts have been made to ensure the books are still available, but formats, covers, and other details may have changed.**<\/p>\n

Mirrorstone, 2009<\/p>\n

ISBN: 978-0-7869-5147-5<\/p>\n

Available: New<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0Stone of Tymora<\/em>\u00a0story continues as Maimun, an orphan with a mysterious past, travels from the desert city of Calimport to the icy port city of Waterdeep looking for the Stone of Tymora, which was taken from him by someone wearing a shadowmask. As time and distance separate Maimun from the stone, he slowly becomes more and more debilitated until it threatens his life. In addition, Maimun is being pursued by a demon, who is in a race against a pirate who also wants the stone. Maimun is threatened by both desert and ice and finally has to face a dragon who isn\u2019t too keen on Maimun\u2019s having the stone. Adding to that, he is dealing with the death of his friends, and his girlfriend is more interested in being a pirate that returning his affections. Luckily, he has Captain Deudermont and the crew of the Sea Sprite to watch his back.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Shadowmask<\/em>\u00a0is told in first person, as Maimun relays his story to a pirate to keep himself alive. The dialogue of the pirate will remind the reader of Captain Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean. This is a true compliment to this character as the reader will easily be able to picture him interrogating Maimun – wanting him dead, but too intrigued by the boy\u2019s story to end his life. The story is full of high adventure that will keep the reader riveted to the tale as much as the pirate himself is caught up in it. One warning though, readers should start with the first book of the\u00a0Stone of Tymora<\/em>\u00a0series,\u00a0The Stowaway<\/em>.\u00a0The Shadowmask<\/em>\u00a0is for anyone who loves story of high adventure and magic.<\/p>\n

Contains: Violence<\/p>\n

Review by Bret Jordan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

**Vault Reviews were posted previously on the main MonsterLibrarian website and are transferred here in an effort to preserve our history. Efforts have been made to ensure the books are still available, but formats, covers, and other details may have changed.** Mirrorstone, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-7869-5147-5 Available: New \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0Stone of Tymora\u00a0story continues as Maimun, an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,64,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-fantasy","category-ya-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-yI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}