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A review by tien
Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby
3.5
🎧 Audiobook Review 🎧
<i>Icefall</i> is a coming of age tale where a young girl finally realises her worth. The protagonist, Solveig, struggles with being the middle child and "plain" looking. Her older sister is as beautiful as her mother and her youngest sibling is a boy and therefore, her father's heir. She, the one her father always passes over, does not believe she has anything to offer her family nor anyone else. However, in this story, we see her kindness, generosity, and intelligence. And despite her heartache, she will finally start to find that she is worth quite something after all. But she was not the only one who needed to find their feet.
While this story is told in an isolated island, it was told well and with a 'locked room' sort of mystery, rather engaging. Even if, I didn't think it was really that hard to guess who. There was a slight twist which I wasn't quite happy about though. Yet, I just loved Solveig as a protagonist. We could all learn from her.
<i>Icefall</i> is a coming of age tale where a young girl finally realises her worth. The protagonist, Solveig, struggles with being the middle child and "plain" looking. Her older sister is as beautiful as her mother and her youngest sibling is a boy and therefore, her father's heir. She, the one her father always passes over, does not believe she has anything to offer her family nor anyone else. However, in this story, we see her kindness, generosity, and intelligence. And despite her heartache, she will finally start to find that she is worth quite something after all. But she was not the only one who needed to find their feet.
While this story is told in an isolated island, it was told well and with a 'locked room' sort of mystery, rather engaging. Even if, I didn't think it was really that hard to guess who. There was a slight twist which I wasn't quite happy about though. Yet, I just loved Solveig as a protagonist. We could all learn from her.