Midwinterblood

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I wished that there was more of a uniting thread that would tie Blessed Island and its uniquely potent orchid as well as the conceit of the different types of moons to the story of Eric and Merle, but other than that, Midwinterblood is pretty near perfect. I was expecting a lot more answers by the end, very little was explained, it was like we were meant to accept things because that's just the way it was.

The whole centuries long 'love' story of Eric/Merle started because the first Eric from back in the day was a king who willingly sacrificed himself to the gods so his island/people would be fertile.

Here's some subjectivity for you (if you think everything until this point was subjective, too, I completely agree with you; I think responses to books are all subjective): I liked the explanation of the name Blessed Island. I read it in a single feverish sitting, late one evening, and drifted to sleep haunted by its vision of love and fate and history. They loved it because it was new and different and fresh, because it compelled you to continue reading because you just had to know what was going on, and because it was beautifully written. Same with this book, all the weirdness connects and after the last page of the book, you'll find yourself in dazed and you'll say "I need a moment. Midwinterblood is broken up into seven different stories, about an archaelogist, a pilot, a painter, a ghost, a vampire, and a viking.

More strangely, it's the sort of place where a rare orchid grows that appears to cure wounds, allow people to live unnaturally long lives, and have a strange effect on the mind. None of the main characters were teenagers or younger, and there were no themes that were YA centred.He endures terrible nightmares, full of blood and violence, and at the last, just as the islanders drag him to a stone table to kill him, things become clear in his mind.

Recommended for: fans of Monstrous Beauty, When the Sea is Rising Red, and other dark literary YA, and for adults who may want to try out some quality young adult fiction. The love story between Eric/Merle should have been epic considering it started centuries ago and they promised to be together in each of their next six lives because they just loved each other that much. There's very little chance that younger readers will care for his writing even if they do manage to understand it.

Playing on tropes of folklore, horror, myth, historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction, Sedgwick imaginatively weaves something highly original and completely compelling. Jednu od njih sam bukvalno osetila na koži naježivši se, druga me je udarila silovito u grudi, treća mi je ščepala srce. It gives us a breather after the unnerving dream-like beginning, and roots us in the present day to move away from the dream state most of the novel is told in, which perhaps means it can't be as beautifully dark as the rest of the book. The prose is descriptive and powerful, with fragments of rough beauty jutting out from the horror contained in the intricate framework of the story. I picked up Midwinterblood thinking that I would enjoy it, but I had no idea how deeply I would fall in love with this story.