Ever After High: Epic Winter: The Junior Novel

by Perdita Finn

When the rebellious Jackie Frost and her brother, Northwind, plot to take control of the Winter Palace and curse the Royal Winter Family, a treacherous storm threatens all of Ever After! Under Jackie's chilly curse, the Snow King freezes out everyone in the palace, including his Crystal Winter. As a wicked winter spreads across the land, Crystal takes off on a daring quest with her friends from Ever After High to melt her father's frozen heart and save the world from turning into a giant snow globe. With Jackie and other fairy dark forces working against them, will Crystal, Briar, Ashlynn, and the rest of the gang be able to heat things up before summer is gone forever after?

Includes 8-page color insert from the animation!

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Genres: Middle Grade, Childrens, Fantasy

144 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2016

Reviews

[Nikki · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book but there were some parts that really bothered me. The Daring Charming and Apple White issue really bothered me because they both saw their destiny in the Storybook of Legends and they were supposed to be in the same story. This entire book pretended like that never happened. That really took away from the whole story. Other than that I enjoyed the story.

[Perryapril2 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this with my 6 year old. She really liked it- and knew the characters. I was a little lost on the back story of the characters but thought it was a cute book. We then watched the 3 episodes of the Netflix series that was about this book.

[Christina · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a really good rendition of the movie. It did it justice and was a fun read.

[Autumn Maisy Raquet · Rating 5 out of 5]

I actually like this book and I own it I love reading it's really good and I love the poster inside I kept the poster inside the book I like how they do more of Crystal winter and Ashland Ella and briar beauty and I really don't like Apple White she's really annoying but well maybe cuz that's because of her mother's upbringing no way that's good I like it though I give it 10 out of 10 excellent is voltageous

[Noame Miller · Rating 1 out of 5]

Je connaissais déjà l'histoire. L'anglais est difficile car beaucoup de mots sont inventés

[✨Jinglemarco✨ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I just right love glittering icy snowstorms and Crystal Winter! :D

: I have so high expectations for this one! :D

I've written this about another book, The cottage in the woods, and in that case I was lucky; I really, really, really love it (my second favorit book of 2016)!
But this Epic Winter is kind of a disappointment. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it. But for an Ever After High take on the Snow Queen fairy-tale (my second favorite fairy-tale), I expected more.
I mean, the movie is nice, and so it is the novelization, overall.
I didn't get the extremely wild tale I wanted, but as a movie it is cool. This book, on the other hand, is too short! I don't understand why the authors of these novelizations have to write within more or less 144 pages, because this novel would be waaayyy better with at least fifty more pages! I think that the dialogues are ok about the similarity with the movie, but it lacks descriptions of settings and actions which we can see on screen, and a few times it was confusing!
Naturally, I will keep on reading the EAH junior novels, but I would be glad if they would be longer. :)