Hello readers! It’s Little Miss- Oh wait. I’m twelve. I can’t go around saying “Little Miss A.Misra” anymore. I’m bigger now. Does that sound dumb? You can say so. Anyways, lets try that again-
Hello readers! It’s Miss A.Misra here with another book review for you to read! (much better)
During the summer vacation, I finally bought: FROST HEART 2! The trilogy I’d been meaning to buy for ages. And it didn’t disappoint. Lets start with the art.
Okay, whoever illustrated this book ( lemme just search that up-Oh yeah, Jamie Littler! So, he illustrated and wrote the whole book) needs some kind of award.
Illustrations nowadays, in any book is basically a stickman with some hair. The drawings in the book are some sort of a cross between anime and cartoon, but they are very cute and have proper structure which I like.
Now here’s a short blurb of the story:
We catch up with Ash where he left off. He was on the frostheart, travelling to Aurora, the greatest stronghold in the history of strongholds. There was also a pretty good chance that his parents could be harboured there since they had been pathfinders and alot of pathfinders deck out and stay in aurora to stay safe from leviathans. When they reach Ash, Lunah and Tobu explore and try to find out more clues about Ash’s parents. However, Captain Stormbreaker, another pathfinder, has plans to turn the song weavers into a trained army, and use them to defeat leviathans once and for all. This is a plan highly complimented by the other pathfinder crews, but some, including the frostheart, rebel against it. Now, new army guards are rounding up songweavers from all parts of Aurora against their will. The frostheart crew are eager to escape in some way, just to save Ash from this idea. Because, a war with the leviathans could mean death. For everything and everyone in the whole of the icy snow sea they live in.
Stormbreaker seems to think it’s possible with the new archeomek weapons they have created that can destroy things quicker than you can say “a-b-c”
Well, firstly, they have to stop this plan about the war. Then they have to stop the wicked wraiths, supposed spirits of the dead, from killing the pathfinders. AND they have to find Ash’s parents.
So much work.
I did mention the leviathans, right?
I did, I think.
Anyways, the leviathans are apparently NOT evil, but kind creatures who just hated it when humans turned evil. There is only ONE bad leviathan. The devourer, who is just full of pure malice and violence. That kind of twists everything up. So, it’s up to Ash and Lunah to prove that to other people so that they can live in peace again, and stop the Wraiths from unleashing the devourer into the world again.
Meanwhile, Ash’s REAL mother is actually very close by, and someone he actually knows in person.He just does not know that yet. According to the book, Ash’s mother and father were BOTH pathfinders, but his father was a songweaver, like he was, and his mother was a regular human being.So, his father had fled somewhere and was hiding because the wraiths and the devourer was after him, and his mother changed her name to become a pathfinder.
The original pathfinder sleigh they had gone off on was never heard of after some time, so they lost all contact with the Fira stronghold and their child, who they did not even get to name!
So, Will Ash find his parents? Will they be able to stop the war? And most importantly will the frostheart crew survive the treacherous path ahead and not get killed in doing so?
Basically, it was a great book. Even better than the first one , in fact. This book has more constructive ironic jokes and the plot is even denser than the last one.
I had actually ordered BOTH of the trilogies to read over the holidays, but the third one was out of stock. ( insert annoyed face in here. My keyboard is not allowing me to, so lets just go with the classic “-_-“) So, I will see when I can get my hands on it. Worse still, the second book ended JUST when Ash was getting to know who his mother was. And right when he asked the question- the book ends. How unfair life is! I don’t think I have anything to do about it, though. I just hope amazon gets some more copies of the book sooner or later (I prefer sooner, thank you very much.) This book was very interesting and had more plot twists than the last one. I also liked the fact that Ash is trying to make friends with the leviathans rather than shy away from them, like he had done previously so much in the other book, frost heart 1. Lunah’s backstory is revealed in this one, but we still don’t know what happened to Tobu’s family, though. I hope the next book contains more detail on that.
One of the funniest parts in this book was when Ash asked Luna what type of a device the statue he was looking at, holding. ( It was an archeromek device) and Luna claimed it was a fancy water bottle. When Ash asks her about the numerous buttons present on its surface, she says they are special buttons that help grip the water bottle better.
Yeah, right. How believable that is, It’s almost too simple to be true.
Imagine, though,if a water bottle like that WAS invented. That would be so cool. But, anyway, I’m veering off the point. ( again!) Back to the point now!
This is a book I would highly recommend. But it won’t make sense to you if you don’t read the first one.
Well, Goodbye!
See you in another post.
Cheerio!:)
