Winter's Child (Once upon a Time Series)

Excellent Story

I loved this story. It was romantic, filled with fantasy and a mystical innocence. It's a great read... highly recommended.

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Too good!

I loved the way this story was told... The romance is twisted with advventure and I love that!

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Cute

This was a really cute book. I love all the Once Upon a Time series, and this one deserves to be in it. The ending was a little wierd and sudden, but worked perfectly.

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i have never heard of this story before but i was a great story.

i have never heard of this story before but i was a great story. I love all the retelling this popular love stories.

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A long time ago, when fairy tales still had a way of being true, the world was a different kind of place: A wish could be a dangerous thing when uttered with a curse. The North Wind could touch a child and change them forever. True love, and true friendship, really could fix everything on the path to happily ever after in Winter's Child (2009) by Cameron Dokey.

In this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale "The Snow Queen," the titular character begins as a child with a destiny she never would have chosen for herself. Touched as a child by the North Wind, she is a Winter Child. Her features bleached to a wintry paleness, she will not feel the cold or age a day past her sixteenth birthday until she can change her fate. Until she can mend that hearts that were scarred when her mother's mirror shattered on the day she became a Winter Child.

Her journey will take this Winter Child across the world and will last many years. It will also bring her to two adjacent buildings that slant toward each other where two children live peacefully until their own sixteenth year when everything changes.

Free-spirited Grace and practical Kai have been friends forever. Still, when Kai asks her to marry him Grace cannot bring herself to accept no matter how much she knows they love each other. Grace dreams of adventures beyond the horizon while Kai seems firmly grounded their small lives in the small town.

All the same, it is Kai who leaves Grace behind for his own adventure following the Winter Child on an unnaturally cold day. Left alone, Grace finally begins to understand what she has lost and sets out to find Kai--beginning a journey that will change all three character's lives.

Winter's Child is a really fast, fairly light book--both in terms of weight and the writing. The story is broken up into ten tales and reads very much like a story from the oral fairy tale tradition. Grace, Kai, and even the Winter Child all take turns narrating the story and adding their own commentary to its events. Unfortunately, their voices are not quite distinct enough to make each character's narration feel unique.

Dokey takes a story that many readers will recognize and retells it in a new, engaging manner. In fact a lot of the fundamental flaws in the original (a very devout, Christian tale) are handled in a more sensible way here. Even seeing the Winter Child/Snow Queen in a more balanced, less evil, light was really great. Still, the ending of the story seemed abrupt and a bit pat. In trying to add her own spin to the ending, Dokey unfortunately created a conclusion to Winter's Child that ultimately felt unsatisfactory and ill-fitting with other aspects of the story.

This book was so awesome!!!

I just finished this book called Winters Child and I thought it was very good!!! Its about Grace and Kai and the love hearing stories about the winter child. Then Kai proposes to Grace and she pushes him away because Grace wants adventure. So Kai goes with the winter child Deirdre. And Grace realizes that she lost a dear friend so she follows him. I like the chemistry between Deirdre and Kai. They were both falling in love with each other and Grace and Kai realize that they love each other but just as friends. I had to agree with the other reviews the ending was a little bit strange because a raven turned into a man and he and Grace get married the same day Deirdre and Kai get married. But I loved the story. I wasn't sure how this story was going to turn out. Cameron Dokey's books are gettng better and better.

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Disappointing

This book had much potential to be good, but I felt the storyline was rushed and the ending greatly disappointed me. The concept of the "Winter Child" could've been a bit more explained, even though I understood, it was difficult.

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