The Winter People (Entangled Teen) - Hardcover

Purdy, Rebekah L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1622663683 ISBN 13: 9781622663682

Publisher: Entangled: Teen, 2014

Synopsis

The Winter People by Rebekah L. Purdy

Salome Montgomery fears winter―the cold, the snow, the ice, but most of all, the frozen pond she fell through as a child. Haunted by the voices and images of the strange beings that pulled her to safety, she hasn't forgotten their warning to "stay away." For eleven years, she has avoided the winter woods, the pond, and the darkness that lurks nearby. But when failing health takes her grandparents to Arizona, she is left in charge of maintaining their estate. This includes the "special gifts" that must be left at the back of the property.? ?

Salome discovers she's a key player in a world she's tried for years to avoid. At the center of this world is the strange and beautiful Nevin, who she finds trespassing on her family's property. Cursed with dark secrets and knowledge of the creatures in the woods, he takes Salome's life in a new direction. A direction where she'll have to decide between her longtime crush, Colton, who could cure her fear of winter. Or Nevin, who, along with an appointed bodyguard, Gareth, protects her from the darkness that swirls in the snowy backdrop.
An evil that, given the chance, will kill her.

About this title

About the Author:

Rebekah Purdy grew up in Michigan, where she spent many late nights armed with a good book and a flashlight. When not hiding at her computer and getting lost in her stories, she enjoys reading, singing, soccer, swimming, football, camping, playing video games, and hanging out with her kids. She may or may not have an obsession with anything chocolate...Rebekah currently resides in Michigan with her husband, kids, and gazillion pets.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 9 Up—Salome Montgomery hates winter. Having fallen through the frozen pond on her grandmother's land as a child due to haunting voices wanting to kill her, she works hard to stay away from the gated woods on the family property. But when her grandparents go to the warmth of Arizona for health reasons, Salome has to take care to keep her family land safe. Discovering that there is more to the voices that she first thought, Salome is pulled into a land of magic, danger, and a curse that has haunted her family for centuries. She is the only one capable of saving not just herself but an entire race of people. But will Salome be able to break the curse before she's killed? The plot of The Winter People is fascinating enough to keep readers interested, but many of the more intriguing aspects, such as Salome's attempts to figure out how to break the curse and just why her family was cursed in the first place, are glossed over in favor of a complicated but incredibly bland love square among Salome; Nevin, the mysterious stranger; Gareth, the other mysterious stranger; and Colton, the boy Salome has gone to school with for years. Purdy's storytelling lacks punch, characters are two-dimensional, and plot elements are told rather than shown. The action falls flat and there is never a true sense of danger, leading to an anticlimactic climax. Readers who enjoy novels dealing with fairies may enjoy this one, but authors like Julie Kagawa and Holly Black have done this before and have done it much better.—Paige Garrison, Aurora Central Public Library, CO

About this edition

• Publisher: Entangled: Teen
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1622663683
• ISBN 13: 9781622663682
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320