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Burnt Snow

Van Badham

Why we're reading this: Great new release Young Adult novel with a supernatural twist.
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Sep 28, 2010 Imogen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: imogens-favourites

This book was ridiculously good.

I managed to get a proof of this just before it was published, as I work in a bookshop, so I carried an enormous unedited manuscript around for a week until I finished it. I didn't even care, the book was THAT good!
The book is Australian, which is nice for a change and I immediately liked the main character, Sophie. It's been a while since I've read any really good paranormal young adult fiction, but this was brilliant. All the while when odd things are happening ...more

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Sep 25, 2010 Rachael rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young-adult

GREAT BOOK!!! I have read a lot of young adult-paranormal fiction and lately all the books have had the same Blah storyline, And you already know everything that is going to happen...Girl meets vampire. Girl falls in love with vampire. Girl has vampires baby. Teen angst and so on. But this book was a breath of fresh air, and I loved not knowing what was going to happen *sigh*. I cannot wait for the next book in the series. Oh and also an Australian author! I'm lovin the Australian authors :D ...more

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Sep 08, 2010 Rachel (The Rest Is Still Unwritten) rated it liked it

Shelves: i-own

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Okay, so I have extremely mixed emotions about this book. I liked it and I didn’t like it. While I’ll admit that it was detailed, fairly well written and exciting at times, there were also times when I was just plain bored and eager for it to finish. It seemed like everything happened over the course of the story, and yet nothing happened at all. If that possibly makes any sense? I also felt like the author spent a lot of time explaining things or having certain parts in the book that weren’t re Okay, so I have extremely mixed emotions about this book. I liked it and I didn’t like it. While I’ll admit that it was detailed, fairly well written and exciting at times, there were also times when I was just plain bored and eager for it to finish. It seemed like everything happened over the course of the story, and yet nothing happened at all. If that possibly makes any sense? I also felt like the author spent a lot of time explaining things or having certain parts in the book that weren’t really necessary. Some parts I felt could have been left out.
While the story was always full of mystery and suspense, most of the time I was just annoyed over how long it took for things to actually happen. There were some moments when the story would get really good, that I found myself really, really wanting to love the book, and yet I just couldn’t.
Sophie was an alright main lead, although she wasn’t anything overly special. She wasn’t very memorable in my mind. I found that she tended to annoy me a lot at times too. I just felt that she accepted things WAY to easily. I mean yeah, all these creepy supernatural things happen, so why not just continue on with things as though they never existed? Oh, and your mum tells you she’s a witch who was trapped into marrying your dad.....a man she wasn’t overly into, I might add, but became attracted to solely because he outwitted her and took away a large majority of her free will......that makes total sense......NOT!
There were just some parts of this book that seemed out of place and unrealistic and I found that even though I liked the storyline, I couldn’t get over that fact.

One thing I did like about the story was Sophie’s friends at school and her whole school world in general. I’ve read countless books where the protagonist is an American high school student, that it was so incredibly refreshing to see an Australian one. Take it from an actual Australian high school student......that’s exactly how it is here. Well, without all the weirdness and supernatural la-la (if I may quote Niki) that is......

Towards the end of the story however I found that I did get really interested. I was saddened to see what happened to Niki, although it was good to see Sophie try to save her. God, who knew Sophie’s mum could be so cruel. I seriously don’t like her. My only issue with the ending is that I feel it was all very abrupt, like it was cut out in the middle of something, not really finished.
I do plan to read the sequel, although I won’t be rushing out to get it.....
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Dec 05, 2010 Christina rated it it was ok

Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, 2010-reads

I don't think I'll be finishing this. It's horribly predictable, I can picture exactly where it's heading, and frankly? I just have no interest to pick it up again after all these months. ...more

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