The Snow Child
By: Eowyn Ivey
Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystical Realism
Pages: 386
Published: 2012
Read: January
3 out of 5
As plenty others have mentioned, the descriptions of the scenery and the "quietness" of this novel is definitely the magical power behind it. Ivey knows the way to describe a "perfect" scene while making the visual so uniquely yours. Not only that, but I truly felt the pain of Mabel and Jack's desire to have a child of their own. It was a great story with lots of character.
Now what I didn't like...The magic of Faina just vanished with no explanation. All of a sudden she no longer had to disappear during the summer (love alone wasn't enough to convince me) and the fact that her birth child had no affliction to season change or other worldly characteristics....What happened to the magic of the story?
I understand eventually she went away because she couldn't handle it, but the magic for me was already spoiled.
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