Winterspell -

Claire Legrand

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

2014

464 páginas

15h 28m

ISBN-13: 9781442465985

The clock chimes midnight, a curse breaks, and a girl meets a prince... but what follows is not all sweetness and sugarplums.

New York City, 1899. Clara Stole, the mayor's ever-proper daughter, leads a double life. Since her mother's murder, she has secretly trained in self-defense with the mysterious Drosselmeyer.

Then, on Christmas Eve, disaster strikes.

Her home is destroyed, her father abducted–by beings distinctly not human. To find him, Clara journeys to the war-ravaged land of Cane. Her only companion is the dethroned prince Nicholas, bound by a wicked curse. If they're to survive, Clara has no choice but to trust him, but his haunted eyes burn with secrets–and a need she can't define. With the dangerous, seductive faery queen Anise hunting them, Clara soon realizes she won't leave Cane unscathed–if she leaves at all.

Inspired by The Nutcracker, Winterspell is a dark, timeless fairy tale about love and war, longing and loneliness, and a girl who must learn to live without fear.

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Winterspell

Li recentemente Furyborn que é dessa mesma autora e procurei outros títulos dela, foi assim que encontrei Winterspell.
Gosto bastante de livros com elementos mágicos, romances, reis e rainhas, e aparentemente a autora também. Com uma atmosfera bem diferente de Furyborn, mas também cativante, Winterspell tem uma leveza no início quase jovial, o que é incrível é a forma como, conforme o tempo passa na narrativa, a autora amadurece os personagens e no final, o livro muda completamente o "tom".
Apesar da narrativa se arrastar em alguns momentos com muitos detalhes poluentes, a mágica, os personagens, o crescimento e todos os elementos, tornam o enredo encantador.