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A review by see_sadie_read
Frostbite by Alexandria Bellefleur
2.0
2.5
I wasn't impressed. It's not bad, really, just simple. It's written in a fairytale style, like someone is telling a fairytale. And while I understand that this is a stylistic choice, all the telling meant I never felt I got to know the characters. I never connected with them.
It also felt like everything happened in a very linear, chronological order, with nothing in between. Such that every word of the story leads up to the sex scene that means they're in love. Then every world leads to the small conflict that leads to the happily ever after. But all this spare plotting meant there isn't any room for character development or world-building.
I understand that it's a 60 page novella, but I think it would have been much better to take the interesting idea and develop it into something more. The mechanical writing isn't bad and the characters are likable enough though.
I wasn't impressed. It's not bad, really, just simple. It's written in a fairytale style, like someone is telling a fairytale. And while I understand that this is a stylistic choice, all the telling meant I never felt I got to know the characters. I never connected with them.
It also felt like everything happened in a very linear, chronological order, with nothing in between. Such that every word of the story leads up to the sex scene that means they're in love. Then every world leads to the small conflict that leads to the happily ever after. But all this spare plotting meant there isn't any room for character development or world-building.
I understand that it's a 60 page novella, but I think it would have been much better to take the interesting idea and develop it into something more. The mechanical writing isn't bad and the characters are likable enough though.