Though he swore to return, Fer has grown up without either parent and under the loving – if stifling – watch of her grandmother. When she was just a baby, her human father left Fer behind to find his beloved, Fer’s fey mother. She is from a different world – one across The Way, filled with magic and wonder. She feels ill and fuzzy and slow the further away she gets from wide open spaces and trees, she’s teased by her peers for smelling weird (thanks to her grandmother’s herbs, which Fer must carry everywhere for protection) and acting weird (thanks to Fer’s penchant for rolling around in the underbrush outside).įer has always felt like she doesn’t belong – and one night, when she saves a dog-who-is-a-boy from being attacked by two savage wolves, Fer learns the truth. Jennifer – Fer, to her friends – isn’t much like other children. With the cold winter approaching, and being in the mood for cold, dark fairy tales, Winterling seemed a good fix for my reading malaise. Why did I read this book: I have been eyeing Winterling since the end of 2011, but haven’t ever found the right excuse or nudge to read the book – until now.
Stand alone or series: Book 1 in a planned seriesįormat (e- or p-): Ebook (via Scribd’s subscription service – which, for the record, is pretty awesome) She must discover who she is and unleash her inner warrior before the worlds on both sides of the Way plunge into a never-ending winter. The key to healing the land and defeating its powerful ruler lies in Fer’s past and the parents she never knew. Ever since she went through the Way, she’s felt an attachment to this new world and its magic, and senses that it is perilously out of balance. I need you here.īut Fer can’t go home yet. I am afraid that something from that world is spilling over into ours. The river through town is flooding, and none of the farmers have been able to put in their crops. It has been weeks since you left, and spring has still not come. My girl, when you opened the Way, something happened.
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