Mary Annning has a serious inferiority complex. It is the driving force in her life, although
she isn’t aware that is what fuels her ambition. She is a fossilist, one who finds
fossils. Her livelihood is finding and
selling fossils; her goal is to be a Geomagician. Her mentor, Professor William Buckland
encourages her work. A spectacular find leads Mary to think her lifelong goal
may be within reach.
Henry Stanton is Mary’s perceived nemesis. Lucy is her friend, and Edgar, Lucy’s brother,
is the fourth in an unlikely group of friends. Mary, impoverished, parents
dead, scrapes by in the little seaside village of Lyme Regis. The other three
are “tourists’ who visit in the summers.
The tourists have wealth and privileges, while Mary struggles to put
bread on the table. Surprisingly, that does not prevent them from becoming fast
friends, until they aren’t.
This is not an action-adventure. This is more of a tale of friends and
relationships.
There is magic, but it doesn’t dominate the plot. The discovery that there are different kinds
of magic is a crucial part of the story.
Economic inequality plays a large part in the overall plot, and a
driving force for Lucy.
It was a good story and I recommend it.
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