But with the old lady, she's gone as soon as she appears. At least Petra taught her something useful, and she took a friend from their camp with her, the falcon.

I think that the situations Grace lived with them could have been better developed, exploiting its potential. Like Petra, the bandit girl, and the old lady in the forest. However, I felt this book had potential characters who could have added some action to the story, but at the end, they only appeared for one chapter, and then they were gone. Not the Winter Child, but simply the princess, the girl, someone without the titles that marked her entire life, who longed to be loved by herself, to find someone who could help her heal her own heart, and finally, have a name of her own and live a life without worrying about paying for her mother's negligence. I loved the way the Winter Child is presented, with her appearance and her clothing, and the way she has to live to mend those hearts in which a sliver of her mother's ice mirror entered, healing them, and righting the wrong that will allow her to be herself again.

It truly captured what it means to write, and how it is impossible to tell all of the stories, because each one generates another, and from them, many others start and end, like with a river and its tributaries, all of them full of possibilities if we ask ourselves 'what if?'. It is this knack that stories have of rubbing up against one another that makes the world an interesting place, a place of greater possibility than it would be if we told our tales alone.'

They overlap and flow across one another, then pull away again just as waves do upon a shore. ' Pick any time of the day or night and somewhere, everywhere, stories are being told. I loved the way it takes stories, and this one was my favourite line, look: The way it describes de land of ice and snow where the Winter Child was born, and how she got her name, it's truly a fairy tale narration, and I loved it! Words there just painted such a beautiful picture, that it felt like there was truly magic in them. On the one hand, the writing is beautiful, especially at the beginning. I had high expectations on this book, and though I liked it, I didn't love it.

Winter's Child by Cameron Dokey