Book: The Snow Child

 Book: The Snow Child

Author: Eowyn Ivey

Pages: 389

This is my 31st book of the year

What Amazon says:

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel.  Childless, they are drifting apart - he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair.  In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of the snow.  The next morning the snow child is gone - but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.  This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods.  She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness.  As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, tey come to love her as their own daughter.  But in this beautiful, violent place things are arely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

This was an okay book.  I liked the beginning and the idea.  But as the story progressed, and definitely the end, it was just okay.  Ending got predictable and was underwhelming.  In the beginning the characters were well developed and the mystery of Fiana was intriguing.  But one the mystery was solved and then Fiana enters a relationship with a neighborhood boy, I lost interest.  I am glad I read it, but I wouldn't really recommend it.

Stars: 3