The Winter Witch (Shadow Chronicles)

by Paula Brackston

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Although this was a heavier read than I normally grab, I was entertained throughout the story.

There was some frustration in the beginning of the story. The problem with our heroine is not her silence, but her childishness. She is only 18 and apparently indulged by her mother and allowed to run wild rather than learning to cook or keep house. That in and of itself would make it hard to find her a husband, especially in a town that knows there is something different about her. When her mother agrees to allow Cai to marry her daughter, her mother neither mentions this to Cai nor advises her daughter she will need to take care of her husband. So she spends her first few days, burning the food and running around in fields.

Cai is rather shy himself, and although he is a widower, he decides to allow time for affection to grow between them before he forces wifely duties from her. Which is wonderful, but he is awkward and bashful, and many times misses opportunities to grow the affection between them, so we take a longer time than necessary to get build the relationship between them.

Although her silence doesn't bother me, I have to wonder how she managed all those years with her mother without some way to communicate since she reads, but cannot write. How can you read, but not be able to write?

It was a good story, and once we got to it, the relationship between Cai and Morgana was heartfelt, but I was not overwhelmed by the story.

It is not one that I would feel compelled to re-read.

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