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A review by sagek
Gathering Frost by Kaitlyn Davis
3.0
3.5/5
Gathering Frost is an engaging, quick read that will leave you admiring the author’s writing.
Jade is cold-hearted, stuck under the Queen’s thrall, and she can’t feel anything other than fear and dread (how else would they stay loyal to the Queen?). She has a distinct voice, disconnected and yet not quite completely lost. The writing gives off this mood, where Jade feels nothing, but knows she should and knows she used to. She doesn’t have room for love, but she admires. She doesn’t hate, but she can’t stand the Queen. She doesn’t get angry, and her cool, calm composer makes her a better fighter. The way it’s all written really gives you the feeling that she has nothing, but knows she used to have everything. It made this book hard to put down, the pages just kept turning and I couldn’t protest because I didn’t want to.
That didn’t change even though I eventually realized that this book is fast paced, because hardly anything happens until the end. It began with a peak at Jade’s life, the Queen, the other’s under her thrall, their missions and what is expected of them. And then she meets a boy who saved her even though he shouldn’t have, and things start changing. She sets out to find him, gets captured and brought back to their home base, and that’s where she’s kept in a room underground. The time passes as she plays games, reads books, and talks to two people, feeling more and more everyday. Fairly quickly, she feels again, and the kiss seals it. But then things are changing again, and the Queen must be stopped. That is where the real action begins, what the entirety of this book was truly leading up to. And it doesn’t disappoint. Magic and murder and betrayal fall into place as the Queen proves to be as evil and cold as she says, but Jade knows hope is everyone’s enemy, and even evil can’t fight it.
*Read my full reviewhere
*Thank you YABBT for providing me with a free ebook.
Gathering Frost is an engaging, quick read that will leave you admiring the author’s writing.
Jade is cold-hearted, stuck under the Queen’s thrall, and she can’t feel anything other than fear and dread (how else would they stay loyal to the Queen?). She has a distinct voice, disconnected and yet not quite completely lost. The writing gives off this mood, where Jade feels nothing, but knows she should and knows she used to. She doesn’t have room for love, but she admires. She doesn’t hate, but she can’t stand the Queen. She doesn’t get angry, and her cool, calm composer makes her a better fighter. The way it’s all written really gives you the feeling that she has nothing, but knows she used to have everything. It made this book hard to put down, the pages just kept turning and I couldn’t protest because I didn’t want to.
That didn’t change even though I eventually realized that this book is fast paced, because hardly anything happens until the end. It began with a peak at Jade’s life, the Queen, the other’s under her thrall, their missions and what is expected of them. And then she meets a boy who saved her even though he shouldn’t have, and things start changing. She sets out to find him, gets captured and brought back to their home base, and that’s where she’s kept in a room underground. The time passes as she plays games, reads books, and talks to two people, feeling more and more everyday. Fairly quickly, she feels again, and the kiss seals it. But then things are changing again, and the Queen must be stopped. That is where the real action begins, what the entirety of this book was truly leading up to. And it doesn’t disappoint. Magic and murder and betrayal fall into place as the Queen proves to be as evil and cold as she says, but Jade knows hope is everyone’s enemy, and even evil can’t fight it.
*Read my full reviewhere
*Thank you YABBT for providing me with a free ebook.