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nonsensicaljourney 's review for:
Gathering Frost
by Kaitlyn Davis
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Thank you to NetGalley and Kaitlyn Davis, the author, for providing me with early access to this audiobook in exchange for an honest review!
This book was self-published by Kaitlyn Davis in 2015, so it's been around for a while, and it has a whole series that stems from Gathering Frost as the first book. I'm grateful to receive the audiobook version, but I fear there was something vaguely off about the reading of the audiobook. I'm not picky with narrators, but something about the narrator for this book was quite jarring in itself.
Gathering Frost starts out with an interesting premise - the main character, along with the entire city of New York, has been put under an evil queen's spell when her kingdom takes over one day in an earthquake. There's a lot to explain, but unfortunately most of the worldbuilding is neglected in favour of the romance plotline.
That being said, the main character is given a reasonable character arc, learning about her emotions when her icy heart starts to thaw, and having to make difficult choices about her freedom versus her increasing pull to do what is right. But the timing of her emotions and her iciness is all too convenient, and I think it could have been investigated a lot more. There was so much more potential, but instead it became a cutesy romance book in which the main character unsurprisngly falls in love with the prince and breaks a curse.
It was done differently to Sleeping Beauty, and inverts a lot of the age-old tropes, for which it gets some credit. But on the other hand, it falls into the traps of a lot of tropes of its own.
I didn't love reading this, and it wasn't just because it was YA and it wasn't just because it was romance. It had room to improve, and I hope one day I read something that builds on the great idea that this book had. However, given the way the next book was introduced, I'm not sure that I can make myself read the sequels.
This book was self-published by Kaitlyn Davis in 2015, so it's been around for a while, and it has a whole series that stems from Gathering Frost as the first book. I'm grateful to receive the audiobook version, but I fear there was something vaguely off about the reading of the audiobook. I'm not picky with narrators, but something about the narrator for this book was quite jarring in itself.
Gathering Frost starts out with an interesting premise - the main character, along with the entire city of New York, has been put under an evil queen's spell when her kingdom takes over one day in an earthquake. There's a lot to explain, but unfortunately most of the worldbuilding is neglected in favour of the romance plotline.
That being said, the main character is given a reasonable character arc, learning about her emotions when her icy heart starts to thaw, and having to make difficult choices about her freedom versus her increasing pull to do what is right. But the timing of her emotions and her iciness is all too convenient, and I think it could have been investigated a lot more. There was so much more potential, but instead it became a cutesy romance book in which the main character unsurprisngly falls in love with the prince and breaks a curse.
It was done differently to Sleeping Beauty, and inverts a lot of the age-old tropes, for which it gets some credit. But on the other hand, it falls into the traps of a lot of tropes of its own.
I didn't love reading this, and it wasn't just because it was YA and it wasn't just because it was romance. It had room to improve, and I hope one day I read something that builds on the great idea that this book had. However, given the way the next book was introduced, I'm not sure that I can make myself read the sequels.