What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

All right, folks, this is going to be SUPER vague. I'm currently reading "The Stone Girl's Story" by Sarah Beth Durst, and it's giving me a vague memory-itch of another book.

The only detail I can remember is that the main character (can't recall gender or age) somehow has a finger or maybe a toe turned to stone. POSSIBLY as a result of them messing around with magic? And maybe the stone is either in danger of spreading, or maybe it was worse but then receded and this finger/toe is all that's left of the stone affliction? I have a vague inkling either way that they would feel the cold/numbness of the stone digit and worry about it.

I can't even remember when I read this, but my brain is making a faint association with The Darkangel trilogy by Meredith Anne Peirce, so it's possible that I read it around the same time. Or maybe
there's even a part in that trilogy that I'm misremembering.

That's it. I can't even recall what age group this book was for, a guess as it when it was published, or even a genre aside from fantasy since I think magic was involved.

Probably not what you want, but in this one, Pino's fingers start turning back to wood when he uses magic.

Wooden Bones

In this one, North, the wizard has some kind of problem with his feet/legs, but I don't remember what exactly.

Brightly Woven

I think one of the characters in the A Game of Thrones gets a similar condition. I think it was maybe in the 4th or 5th book (the same happened in the tv series as well, but to a different character).

The Greenwing and Dart series by Victoria Goddard has a character with this affliction (though it's a whole arm). Probably too recent but the first book in the series is Stargazy Pie

How about Reckless by Cornelia Funke? YA, first published in 2010. A boy named Will follows his brother into the magical world where the brother has been visiting, and somehow he starts turning to stone. His brother has to figure out how to stop it/save him.

Reckless for the click

There's also The Stone Sky, by N.K. Jemisin, in which Essun is slowly turning to stone:
"It also means that your tenure as most powerful has just acquired an expiration date, because the same thing is happening to you that happened to Alabaster: You’re turning to stone. Just your right arm, for now. Could be worse. Will be worse, the next time you open the Gate, or even the next time you wield enough of that strange silvery not-orogeny, which Alabaster called magic."

Or possibly from The Obelisk Gate, the previous book in the series.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone, but so far none are what I'm thinking of. The only one suggested thus far that I've even read was Game of Thrones, and I definitely read it too recently for it to be what I'm thinking of.

Is this Fairest by gail carson levine? the main character attempts a spell to make herself beautiful and begins turning to stone. she reverses it but is left with a marble pinky toe.

There's also Fawkes, by Nadine Brandes,

"In 17th-century London two forces rule the people: the color powers and the Stone Plague... Thomas Fawkes’s Color Test is upon him, and he is sure his father, the infamous Guy Fawkes, will present him with a mask and Thomas will finally bond with a color. He desperately hopes for a gray mask so he can remove the stone that has invaded his body and will ultimately take his life."

Ooh, this sounds familiar. Could it have been in a book of short stories, maybe by Joan Aitken?

Jamie, did you check out these suggestions?

It might be Fairest, since that is one I have read....but I'd have to reread that part to be sure.

Google Books preview of Fairest by Gail Carson Levine - Shem's suggestion:

- https://www.amazon.com/Fairest-Gail-C...

Wikipedia's details plot summary - with Spoilers:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairest...

Jamie, were you able to confirm if the story you remember was Fairest?

I just came across this story which has a character who deliberately turns their finger into stone? gold? to solve a problem (need for a key) but can't reverse the spell and slowly turns into a statue.

It reminded me of your thread!

War in Hagwood

The Gone series by Michael Grant has a character (Orc) whose body is slowly turning to stone. He appears in all the books of this series, though the stone aspect may not appear in the first book. He is not the main character, however.