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Snow Like Ashes (Snow Like Ashes, #1)

Sara Raasch

Start date: March 10, 2015

Finish date: March 31, 2015

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What Members Thought

Jun 10, 2014 Morgan rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, young-adult, geek-appeal, fantasy

4.5

Really only because it took me a little while to get into the book with the world building that needed to happen during the initial bits of action and the fact that a few events that happened prior were sort of glossed over.

BUT there is a prequel that apparently takes care of filling in that background info and was originally a prologue to the book. You can read it for free online and the book link: Icicles Like Kindling has the URL of the online version available. Some reviewers stated that ...more

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Oct 20, 2014 jodiel86 rated it did not like it

Shelves: skimmed, didnt-finish, genre-ya, genre-fantasy

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Why I picked it up:

This book was sort of everywhere when it was released. Everyone was talking about it, mainly because look at that cover, it’s gorgeous! I got my hands on it pretty early, but it took a while for me to get around to reading it.

My thoughts:

I went into this book not really knowing what to expect. I hadn’t read the blurb and I hadn’t read any reviews, so I went in completely blind.

Sara Raasch is very good at painting a picture with few wor ...more

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