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A review by sylvilel
Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw
3.0
Nora Walker is the lonely young witch of Jackjaw Lake. Or - at least her ancestors were witches. Nora however doesn’t seem to posess the same forces as the other women of the Walker lineage. Perhaps she is the first Walker born WITHOUT a nightshade.
On the night of a storm that leaves Jackjaw Lake completely isolated from the outside world, one boy disappears from the boy camp by the shore. Another boy is supposedly dead.
Soon, Nora finds herself and her unreliable heart tangled up in mysteries both worldly and magical - and in a race against death.
I’m not really sure what to think of this book. It’s definitely something I would’ve loved to the point of falling apart at fourteen. And I guess I can say it’s well written; slow-paced and thoughtful and dreamy in a - thankfully - not-too-sappy-way. A dark romance wrapped in pagan magic and a possible murder mystery.
I was very much put off by the intro. It felt like Ernshaw was trying to set the pace a little too forcefully, and thus biting over too much at a time, and I started to expect hating the rest of it. That was only the beginning however, and pretty soon the mood of the story began taking shape, turning into a mixture between Practical Magic and The Wolves of Mercy Falls.
Between piles of huge, epic fantasy tomes, I guess this was a nice little quick fix - a decent palate cleanser if you like.
On the night of a storm that leaves Jackjaw Lake completely isolated from the outside world, one boy disappears from the boy camp by the shore. Another boy is supposedly dead.
Soon, Nora finds herself and her unreliable heart tangled up in mysteries both worldly and magical - and in a race against death.
I’m not really sure what to think of this book. It’s definitely something I would’ve loved to the point of falling apart at fourteen. And I guess I can say it’s well written; slow-paced and thoughtful and dreamy in a - thankfully - not-too-sappy-way. A dark romance wrapped in pagan magic and a possible murder mystery.
I was very much put off by the intro. It felt like Ernshaw was trying to set the pace a little too forcefully, and thus biting over too much at a time, and I started to expect hating the rest of it. That was only the beginning however, and pretty soon the mood of the story began taking shape, turning into a mixture between Practical Magic and The Wolves of Mercy Falls.
Between piles of huge, epic fantasy tomes, I guess this was a nice little quick fix - a decent palate cleanser if you like.