I purchased this pendant for my young daughter for Christmas.  The Sterling Silver is very pretty, nice and shiney as you would hope it to be.  The actual sodalite is a very pretty deep blue, without the white lines common in a lot of sodalite.  The deeper the blue, and the less white in the stone, the more desirous the piece.  It is a good value for the money, and a very well made necklace with high quality sodalite.  Sodalite is supposed to be a good luck charm, and I figure who can't use a little of that?
It is a nice size heart, will show up on the neck from a nice distance without wondering: "what is that?"  But also not too big for a small girl.