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A review by eswee
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
challenging
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.75
I am wishing for snow and wow snow is what you get in this story!
In a reservation somewhere in Canada, the internet, television and phone services start to fail. Next, suddenly the power goes out too. Everyone is still preparing for winter and panic rises fast. Snow starts to fall. It soon turns out that these outages aren't a local thing. Strangers come to the village. Food starts to run out. But the snow keeps coming as you and the villagers lose any sense of time.
There is a bit of slang to get used to when you meet Evan and his family. But after that it's a good read. The pace and events in this story are truly realistic. What probably must have felt a very dystopian story when the book was written and released, now feels even more real. It is a short novel, and it reads slow- to medium paced. There are a lot of loose ends though. This story is by far not complete. But it fits ok enough to still like it.
In a reservation somewhere in Canada, the internet, television and phone services start to fail. Next, suddenly the power goes out too. Everyone is still preparing for winter and panic rises fast. Snow starts to fall. It soon turns out that these outages aren't a local thing. Strangers come to the village. Food starts to run out. But the snow keeps coming as you and the villagers lose any sense of time.
There is a bit of slang to get used to when you meet Evan and his family. But after that it's a good read. The pace and events in this story are truly realistic. What probably must have felt a very dystopian story when the book was written and released, now feels even more real. It is a short novel, and it reads slow- to medium paced. There are a lot of loose ends though. This story is by far not complete. But it fits ok enough to still like it.