Winterling by Sarah Prineas

Winterling (Summerlands, #1)

by Sarah Prineas

“We live here, my girl, because it is close to the Way, and echoes of its magic are felt in our world. The Way is a path leading to another place, where the people are governed by different rules. Magic runs through them and their land.”

With her boundless curiosity and wild spirit, Fer has always felt that she doesn’t belong. Not when the forest is calling to her, when the rush of wind through branches feels more real than school or the quiet farms near her house. Then she saves an injured creature—he looks like a boy, but he’s really something else. He knows who Fer truly is, and invites her through the Way, a passage to a strange, dangerous land.

Fer feels an instant attachment to this realm, where magic is real and oaths forge bonds stronger than iron. But a powerful huntress named the Mór rules here, and Fer can sense that the land is perilously out of balance. Fer must unlock the secrets about the parents she never knew and claim her true place before the worlds on both sides of the Way descend into endless winter.

Sarah Prineas captivates in this fantasy-adventure about a girl who must find within herself the power to set right a terrible evil.

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4 of 5 stars

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The thing that's particularly good about [b:Winterling|9394987|Winterling (Winterling, #1)|Sarah Prineas|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1310056591s/9394987.jpg|14278755] is that it's both simple and beautifully descriptive. Which are not two things that normally go together very well. But [a:Sarah Prineas|827236|Sarah Prineas|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206233414p2/827236.jpg] has a way of using simile and metaphor and excellent incongruent verbs to create a really beautiful and magical world. But she still tells a very straight forward story for young readers.

Her characters are dimensional and interesting. Her world-building takes ingrained fantasy expectations and makes them uniquely her own.

I can't think of higher praise than that it's a simple, beautiful, magical story.

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