Helpful Score: 1
This was the January 2013 pick in my neighborhood book club. And although it was very well-written, it just wasn't my cuppa book.
It's based on a Russian fairy-tale and I just don't think it worked as a full length novel. The first 50 or so pages were engaging as the reader learns about Jack and Mabel struggling to maintain their lives on a frigidly cold Alaskan homestead. But once the "mystery girl" begins showing up outside in the snow, the story takes a bizarre turn as the fairy-tale aspect torpedoes the narrative...and it then becomes boring with a capital B. I'm still yawning as I type this.
Jack and Mabel's reaction to the sporadically appearing and disappearing "snow child" just doesn't make any sense, and the relationship they and others develop with her is even more strange and implausible.
I know this book has received lots of rave reviews, and I wish I could join the bandwagon...unfortunately, I can't. C-
It's based on a Russian fairy-tale and I just don't think it worked as a full length novel. The first 50 or so pages were engaging as the reader learns about Jack and Mabel struggling to maintain their lives on a frigidly cold Alaskan homestead. But once the "mystery girl" begins showing up outside in the snow, the story takes a bizarre turn as the fairy-tale aspect torpedoes the narrative...and it then becomes boring with a capital B. I'm still yawning as I type this.
Jack and Mabel's reaction to the sporadically appearing and disappearing "snow child" just doesn't make any sense, and the relationship they and others develop with her is even more strange and implausible.
I know this book has received lots of rave reviews, and I wish I could join the bandwagon...unfortunately, I can't. C-
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