First Frost The Frost Series Book 1 eBook Liz DeJesus
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For generations, the Frost family has run the Museum of Magical and Rare Artifacts, handing down guardianship from mother to daughter, always keeping their secrets to family only. Gathered within museum s walls is a collection dedicated to the Grimm fairy tales and to the rare items the family has acquired Cinderella s glass slipper, Snow White s poisoned apple, the evil queen s magic mirror, Sleeping Beauty s enchanted spinning wheel...Seventeen-year-old Bianca Frost wants none of it, dreaming instead of a career in art or photography or...well, anything except working in the family s museum. She knows the items in the glass display cases are fakes because, of course, magic doesn't really exist. She s about to find out how wrong she is.
First Frost The Frost Series Book 1 eBook Liz DeJesus
This is embarrassing. Grown men are not supposed to be bowled over by novels clearly written for young (and likely female) audiences. I have the pleasure of being in a writer's group with Ms. DeJesus and when a chance came along to purchase the Kindle version of First Frost on a holiday bargain, well, I had to go for it. I had some extra credits on my Amazon Christmas gift card and said to myself, "What the heck?"Having previously read the synopsis for First Frost - as well as a few blog reviews - I figured it would be kind of a girly fairy tale with a twist or two. From what I'd seen and heard, there was enough to interest me. I write in the fantasy genre and fairy tales are, at heart, fantasy; so...
First and foremost, First Frost is an excellent novel. It is well written with engaging characters and a tight, well-defined plot. The pacing is perfect; at no point in the story did I say to myself, "That's bogus! Character X would never be able to pull that off," or anything of the sort. The growth of Bianca Frost, the story's main protagonist is beautifully written and despite my rather gruff, public pooh-poohing of modern, young adult fiction, I was bowled over by what a great book First Frost is.
No novel is perfect and I could list a couple of things that might have annoyed me but at the end of the day I would merely be nit picking. One thing I've noticed while reading a lot of independently published fiction over the last few years is that the books universally have a smattering - to a lesser or greater degree - of spelling and/or grammatical errors. I've read some brilliant stories that are able to overcome the author's obvious faux pas and still be good. In the case of First Frost, while there are a few grammatical errors, they are minimal and by the halfway point in the story I had forgotten about the ones I'd noted and didn't discover any more. This could be because there aren't any later in the tale - or it could be because the book is such a splendid read that I failed to even note them. I think I'll settle on the latter.
I highly recommend First Frost and can't wait for the soon-to-be released sequel!
Just don't tell anyone ;-)
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First Frost The Frost Series Book 1 eBook Liz DeJesus Reviews
Two transparency notes First, this was a copy provided by the author in exchange for an honest review. And second, this isn't normally the type of fantasy I read (by which I mean fairy tale fantasy), but I've been reviewing for a while and would like to think I'm being objective when I say that for this type of fantasy, it's good.
The basic plot is a twist on the discovery fantasy formula Bianca Frost discovers that not only are the fairy tale items in her family's museum real, but she possesses inherited magical abilities herself, and the Frosts have a connection to the real fairy tale characters. Bianca begins training, and learns that her father is likely not dead but a prisoner of a wicked witch named Lenore, and to keep safe an old and dangerous book of spells. But when Lenore appears and captures Bianca's mother, Rose, Bianca decides to go after her, and look for her father, with the help of her friend Ming - and the book Bianca's mother wanted kept from Lenore at all costs.
So it is a familiar formula; some readers will enjoy that, and while it isn't my usual thing either, I stuck with the book for the characters. Bianca and Ming, along with the steward Terrance who intrigues Bianca, have a mix of modern sensibilities, tongue in cheek, typical adolescent worries even in the middle of the quest(s), along with doses of courage. I couldn't get as much into Rose or Lenore, who felt like they had less depth, particularly with each other considering their obviously long history together, and I always enjoy a good villain. I was hoping for more of the unexpected (but see above comment about readers who enjoy particular formulas) but had fun with the fairy tale elements filling the novel all the way through (Rapunzel's hair in particular).
I'm not sure how well fantasy readers in general will like First Frost. But for those who like their fairy tales translated into today's world, and their fantasy intimate instead of epic, give it a go.
This is embarrassing. Grown men are not supposed to be bowled over by novels clearly written for young (and likely female) audiences. I have the pleasure of being in a writer's group with Ms. DeJesus and when a chance came along to purchase the version of First Frost on a holiday bargain, well, I had to go for it. I had some extra credits on my Christmas gift card and said to myself, "What the heck?"
Having previously read the synopsis for First Frost - as well as a few blog reviews - I figured it would be kind of a girly fairy tale with a twist or two. From what I'd seen and heard, there was enough to interest me. I write in the fantasy genre and fairy tales are, at heart, fantasy; so...
First and foremost, First Frost is an excellent novel. It is well written with engaging characters and a tight, well-defined plot. The pacing is perfect; at no point in the story did I say to myself, "That's bogus! Character X would never be able to pull that off," or anything of the sort. The growth of Bianca Frost, the story's main protagonist is beautifully written and despite my rather gruff, public pooh-poohing of modern, young adult fiction, I was bowled over by what a great book First Frost is.
No novel is perfect and I could list a couple of things that might have annoyed me but at the end of the day I would merely be nit picking. One thing I've noticed while reading a lot of independently published fiction over the last few years is that the books universally have a smattering - to a lesser or greater degree - of spelling and/or grammatical errors. I've read some brilliant stories that are able to overcome the author's obvious faux pas and still be good. In the case of First Frost, while there are a few grammatical errors, they are minimal and by the halfway point in the story I had forgotten about the ones I'd noted and didn't discover any more. This could be because there aren't any later in the tale - or it could be because the book is such a splendid read that I failed to even note them. I think I'll settle on the latter.
I highly recommend First Frost and can't wait for the soon-to-be released sequel!
Just don't tell anyone ;-)
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