Midwinterblood

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They are not always born as lovers – once they are siblings, once they are mother and son, and so on – but they always find a way to be with each other, somehow. I started this book without much knowledge what it is all about and I'm glad for it since I had really appreciated the book's beauty and brilliance. modern day archaeologist finds an unexploded bomb and a mysterious grave - subsequent stories make clear how they got there), though even by the end, every detail isn't clear. But following the opening segment, the plot moves backwards in time, and by the third story "The Airman," the pieces start fitting together. Ima i više logičkih propusta/neuverljivosti koje su već nabrajali i drugi prikazivači pa ja ne moram (osim činjenice da neko ko je umro 2002.

I have no idea why it won the Printz, which is about par for the course for me over the past few years. Behind them grew a tree, an odd tree, with a straight trunk, and a pointed crown of brilliant green leaves. It is one of those books in which people are linked together in different ways but Marcus Sedgwick develops this style into something I have never read before and love! Though the story as a whole itself is very complex when put together at the end, the base of the world and the characters themselves are very simply built - no convoluted overwrought characters fighting in a love triangle like so much of we've seen in YA as of late. This is the perfect book if you're feeling a bit moody or you want to explore the idea of humanity as very faulty creatures.Playing on tropes of folklore, horror, myth, historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction, Sedgwick imaginatively weaves something highly original and completely compelling. He has illustrated some of his books, and has provided wood-engravings for a couple of private press books. Told in seven short stories, it journeys back through time to King Eirikr and his beloved wife Melle. They're presented as flowers that a) make people on the island live forever, b) make people on the island infertile, c) have healing powers, and d) can also be brewed into a tea that causes forgetfulness. One of the things I like best about the plot is how Eric and Merle are bound together throughout the centuries, and yet their relationship is never the same.

Beautifully composed in seven parts, traveling backwards in time to the origin of Eric and Merle’s tragic story, Midwinterblood is a reverse-palimpsest of sorts – wholly unexpected, haunting, and utterly memorable. The whole centuries long 'love' story of Eric/Merle started because the first Eric from back in the day was a king who willingly sacrificed himself to the gods so his island/people would be fertile. I was more interested in the mysteries of the island and its secretive inhabitants than the love story between the two MC's. The book has an unconventional structure that someone told me is like Cloud Atlas, but while it does have a sort of similar time sense, I’d say it is otherwise completely different.More strangely, it's the sort of place where a rare orchid grows that appears to cure wounds, allow people to live unnaturally long lives, and have a strange effect on the mind. I am not usually one who minds spoilers, but in the case of Midwinterblood the chief pleasure of the novel was figuring out what story was being told, what old friend we were meeting, so I would advise you to avoid spoilers. Usually, my biggest problem with this particular storyline is that it often feels somewhat…cheap, but Midwinterblood was the opposite, it was intricate and beautiful.