August 16, 2012

Book Review: The Color Of Snow

Katie August 16, 2012 4Comments

I have to say that this book was SO GOOD.  Sophie is found living in her room, it has a lock on it – but it locks from the inside – to keep people out.  And there are bars around her door.  It turns out that her father actually kidnapped her when she was just days old and kept her in captivity the whole time to protect her from this “curse” that is believed to be on her.

He comes home from work at lunch to feed her and check in on her chores and schoolwork.  She is not allowed outside.  Then she meets brothers Damien and Danny when their mother comes over to see her father. She is instructed to lie about living there so no one will know that she is there.  Except that the boys really like Sophie (she is incredibly gorgeous, but she doesn’t know it because her father has removed all the mirrors from the house.)  Secretly, Sophie meets with the boys each day and plays with them  until Danny comes by himself and confesses his love for her and ends up dead.  Sophie’s Papa finally tells her of the curse.

Damien eventually comes around again and tries to rescue Sophie once he sees the situation she is in, but Papa shoots him. Papa ends up arrested and Sophie ends up going with her grandparents – her mother’s parents – who have been looking for Callidora (Sophie’s given name) for seventeen years.

She meets her cousin Stephanie who tries to tell her that everything her father taught her might not be right and that she is not cursed.

The book jumps back and forth between Sophie’s life now and the story of Sophie’s parents and how everything went down between them and the early days of Sophie’s kidnapping.  Each chapter has the year at the top and the location and it is not difficult to figure out which time you are in by what is going on in the chapter.

This was a fascinating story – there was so much going on and so many characters to love (and hate).  You wanted Sophie to find her way, but didn’t want her to be forced into it (it seemed like this was happening in some scenes – her grandparents were rushing her to be “normal” at times) and eventually she did make a decision for herself on whether or not she could be with Damien, the boy she loved, or if he would also end up destroyed because of this curse that she has surrounding her.

I thought the ending was going to be a bit different than it was. I am happy with how it ended up (I don’t want to say much more than that) but I had a completely different idea of what I thought was going to end up happening!

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