Snowbound

Bloodline of Yule Trilogy #2

by Maria Alexander

Book 2 of the award-winning YA trilogy that started with Snowed. Charity Jones leads her friends on an armed, high-tech expedition to the Arctic coordinates she’s seen in her dreams. Their mission: to kill Krampus and save Aidan. But when Charity discovers Aidan’s shocking fate, she makes a mistake that starts the countdown to apocalypse. Can Charity and her team stop the clock? Or will humanity pay the ultimate price?

258 pages, Paperback

Published September 8, 2018

About the author

Maria Alexander is an award-winning author of YA and adult fiction. Her debut novel, MR. WICKER, won the 2014 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her debut YA novel, SNOWED, both won the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel and was nominated for the 2017 Anthony Award for Best Children's/Young Adult Novel. Her latest novel, BRIMSTONE & BLADES, won three 1st place awards at The BookFest in Fall 2025, including YA Fantasy, YA Fiction, and LGBTQIA+ Fiction.

When she’s not stabbing people with her foil, she’s being outrageously spooky or writing Doctor Who filk. She lives in Northern California with two ungrateful cats, a Jewish Christmas caroler, and a purse called Trog.

Reviews

[M. J. Ceruti · Rating 2 out of 5]

2,5. No me gustó tanto como la primera parte. No sé si los pequeños vicios de la escritura se han agravado con la secuela o es sólo que no recuerdo bien la primera parte. Los diálogos me resultaron un poco ortopédicos; en los agradecimientos Alexander menciona que tuvo beta readers adolescentes, pero por desgracia las referencias humorísticas y la jerga se quedaron petrificadas hace diez años y ya no funcionan. Normalmente el intercalado de prosa elegante con expresiones informales me gusta, pero en este caso no fluían con naturalidad. Además, el personajes de Charles me resultó un villano exagerado y poco creíble (pero no quiero decir más, porque conociendo la vida de Alexander es capaz de haberlo basado en alguien que conoció).

No lo odié, tiene partes entretenidas y pienso leer la tercera parte, pero no me corre ninguna prisa.