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A review by kblincoln
Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
4.0
Some books you can only appreciate when you get to the end and are like "oh my gosh, the author totally set up that ending so cleverly" and then you flip through the pages seeing where hints and omens were carefully placed.
Thus is it so with Midwinterblood. The fun with this, as it was for me in Cloud Atlas, is getting past the "what's going on!" first part (first "life") and getting to the subsequent parts (lives) where you already know to look for the hints you skipped over in the first part.
This is a short read. It chronicles the lives of two lovers who meet again and again on Blessed Island, an isolated place of the far North where a rare orchid grows that seems to have some mysterious effect on the inhabitants.
It starts off just a bit slow, and some of the lives we needed to spend a little more time in so that we could appreciate and connect with the characters as they were in that life, but otherwise, an atmospheric, slightly creepy, and interesting read.
Like a slice of dark chocolate tart where you uncover each layer of cream and sponge cake and enjoy anew the same flavors permeating each chapter as you follow the story to its ultimate conclusion...which is its beginning, actually.
Thus is it so with Midwinterblood. The fun with this, as it was for me in Cloud Atlas, is getting past the "what's going on!" first part (first "life") and getting to the subsequent parts (lives) where you already know to look for the hints you skipped over in the first part.
This is a short read. It chronicles the lives of two lovers who meet again and again on Blessed Island, an isolated place of the far North where a rare orchid grows that seems to have some mysterious effect on the inhabitants.
It starts off just a bit slow, and some of the lives we needed to spend a little more time in so that we could appreciate and connect with the characters as they were in that life, but otherwise, an atmospheric, slightly creepy, and interesting read.
Like a slice of dark chocolate tart where you uncover each layer of cream and sponge cake and enjoy anew the same flavors permeating each chapter as you follow the story to its ultimate conclusion...which is its beginning, actually.