Teenage characters are few and far between, but a story that’s simultaneously romantic, tragic, horrifying, and transcendental is more than enough to hold readers’ attention, no matter their age. Not only the story is odd, but also the way writer tells it is kind of eccentric. In a present-day story about an archeological dig, Eric is a oddly strong, brain-damaged teenager and Merle his mother in the 10th century, when the island was inhabited by Vikings, Eirek and Melle are young twins, whose story answers questions raised by what the archeologists discover. Surrender by Sonya Hartnett and Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick, both books are unique and way too different from the books I usually read. Set on a mysterious and isolated Nordic island, the stories all include characters with variations on the names of Eric and Merle.
Sedgwick appears to share Bridget’s sentiment: as he moves backward through time in seven interconnected stories-from the late 21st century to an unspecified ancient era-character names, spoken phrases, and references to hares, dragons, and sacrifice reverberate, mutate, and reappear. For a while they snuck around but eventually Merells father. The reason it is the most powerful because in the story Merell meets the poor fisherman named Erik that she falls in love with but due to her Father is not allowed to see.
School Library Journal Praise for Midwinterblood: Novels by. In book Midwinterblood all the stories are very well written but the most powerful story is got to be story 4. Don’t you?” a woman named Bridget says to her daughter, Merle, at one point in this heady mystery that joins the remote northern setting of Sedgwick’s Revolver with the multigenerational scope of his White Crow. Description Reminiscent of David Mitchells Cloud Atlas. “I always prefer a walk that goes in a circle.
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