false 2200913 4 Aleksia, Queen of the Northern Lights, is mysterious, beautiful and widely known to have a heart of ice. No one would seek her wisdom except as a last resort. But when she's falsely accused of unleashing evil on nearby villages, she realizes there's an impostor out there far more heartless than she could ever be.<P> And when a young warrior following the Tradition disappears, leaving his sweetheart and mother to fear the worst, Aleksia's powers are needed as never before.<P> Now, on a journey through a realm of perpetual winter, it will take all her skills, a mother's faith and a little magic to face down an enemy more formidable than any she has ever known. 2206671 1 6 2008 The Snow Queen (Five Hundred Kingdoms, #4) total:594|5:125|4:209|3:199|2:52|1:9| 594 2171 901 72 2 2 false false Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 11:44:40 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 17:54:20 -0800 2008 1
The Five Hundred Kingdom books have been uneven. The first one, Fairy Godmother, was...more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 18:26:18 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 18:49:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 08:31:03 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 10:51:19 -0700 2009 4 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 14:01:45 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 14:03:39 -0800 2009 4 1 false false Fri Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 16:21:17 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 16:36:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 18:15:20 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 18:20:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 11:47:09 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 12:21:04 -0700 2009
Probably the worst part, though, was the abysmal pacing. You spend...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 16:01:48 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 16:13:41 -0700 2009 Five Hundred Kingdoms series, but this one could have done with a firmer editor.

While the set-up and character introduction were lovely, the pacing was markedly off. Not only did the plot not get moving until qiute literally halfway through the...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 20:16:20 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 20:19:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 15:41:13 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 09 14:42:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 08 14:21:50 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 09:16:49 -0700 2009
Godmother Alexsia reigns over the Palace of Ever-Winter and the lands of the n...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Jan 02 08:08:08 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 08:11:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 12:48:12 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 13:17:26 -0800 2009 The Snow Queen is the fourth in Mercedes Lackey's fantasy series about the story-behind-the-story of fairy tales. She has invented an impersonal magical force, The Tradition, that tries to force people and events into patterns that it recognizes--and that we recognize as classical fairy tales. Fairy...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 14 13:07:39 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 13:13:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 16:31:49 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 17:11:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 06:33:58 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 09:10:08 -0700 2009 The Fairy Godmother (the first Five Hundred Kingdoms book) in my mind. Maybe I didn't find the protagonist, Aleksia, as a character that drew me in. I found myself more interested in the stories about Kaari and Annukka and the Sammi people than Aleksia, even when their lives inte...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 15:34:25 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 22 21:59:27 -0700 2009 The Snow Queen! Nordic fairytales! Demigods! Semi-serious plots! AND Lackey seems to have figured out how to write for adults at last. In the previous books, I always felt really uncomfortable when it came time for the love scenes because honestly, it felt like rea...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 06 13:15:29 -0800 2009 Sun Aug 23 17:29:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 19:09:17 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 19:18:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 24 15:05:09 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 15:07:15 -0700 2009 more...]]>