What's on the Bookshelf: 'Frost'

The very name of Kate Avery Ellison's "Frost" makes me shiver. Her newest novella — just shy of novel length at 47,000 words — paints a cold, icy world full of monsters that haunt the darkness. The very culture of the Frost's inhabitants consists of engrained, almost ritualistic behaviors that protect them and allow them to survive the harsh world.

But sometimes even that isn't enough.

When Lia's parents are killed by the Watchers — the monsters in the forest — she is left to care for her...