A review by vanessamariebooks
Winter Town by Stephen Emond

4.0

I really enjoyed this book. I loved that it was filled with so much art work, it was nice reading a book with pictures for a change, since I haven't read a picture since I was really little. Seeing as this book takes place around Christmas/New Year's time, it was a perfect time to read it now. This book was such a quick read and I loved everything, the characters (except for Evan's dad, didn't really like him), the story, Evan and Lucy's relationship, everything was just great. Speaking of Evan and Lucy's relationship, I loved how realistic it was. Neither of them were perfect and their relationship was full of flaws but it was a realistic portrayal. I think more authors can learn a lot about realistic portrayals of relationships from this book. I really liked the character development in this book as well and watching Evan and Lucy grow and finding their own paths. The only thing I wish was different is I wished I knew more about what happened to Lucy in the end when she returned home. I would have like to see what happened with her and her family. Otherwise this was a really great book and I'm really start to warm up to contemporary books, this is only my second contemporary so far but it's good second.