I reread Mollie Hunter's The Walking Stones last fall and loved it all over again, so I had high hopes for The Kelpie's Pearls. It's not quite what I'd been hoping for. Like The Walking Stones, the basis of the tale is "real life isn't only what it seems," but Hunter tells this story with much more of a fairy-tale tone. It didn't quite do it for me, but it was still a nice read. ( )