We return to the mystical Island of Skane, not to see how Osa's world transformed after her final confrontation in the first book, but to revisit the past which set up Osa's journey.
Lisa Lueddecke proves in A Storm of Ice and Stars that a journey can be walked twice, by two different people, and feel completely changed. She also show's us how much we missed in the first book, and how complex her world truly is.
While the first book offered threat and fear as a distant forbidding promise A Storm of Ice and Stars throws us directly into the line of fire. From the off we know our main characters lives are at risk, that they stand on a precipice and that more and worse is yet to come. There is no distant drum roll in this book, but the roar of a war cry.
From the blurb;
'When red lights appear in the night sky, fear and suspicion fall over Janna's village like a blanket of snow. The boarders are barricaded in a desperate attempt to keep out the plague - no one will be permitted to enter lest they bring infection with them.
'But Janna refuses to turn her back on those beyond her own village - and is chased away into the wilds of the island by her people. As death creeps closer like a winter frost, can Janna survive storm-ravaged plains and far-flung mountains, where danger and darkness always lie in wait?'
This eye-opening second novel offers us a glimpse into the past that made Skane what it was in the first book and is well worth the read for any fans of A Shiver of Snow and Sky. While we travel the mysterious island of Skane once more we learn more about the people who made the island, many eons before, and delve deeper into the intense history that shaped these peoples.
Janna is a purely good soul, setting out on a mission she did not choose, as she try's to save her people from something she cannot understand. Lost to history, her pure heart shapes the world around the future without anyone knowing.
We Give A Storm of Ice and Stars Three Stars
ISBN - 978-1-407174-04-4 Cover price - £7.99 Available as an eBook First published in the UK by Scholastic Ltd, 2018
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