A review by readwithpassion
Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick

4.0

I was drawn the the peculiarity of this novel. The characters are odd, and I couldn't stop reading. Sedgwick writes seven connected stories which take the reader backwards in time--from the year 2073 and through an undated year in the distant past. With collections of stories like this one, I often find only a few stories to be compelling. In Midwinterblood, each story was beautifully written, and I enjoyed every story. I don't enjoy the horror genre very much, but Segwick's writing made me reconsider this opinion. I have never read a book quite like this one.

“If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?”