((4.5 stars))A Breath of Frost is one of those books I've seen everyone talking about and loving, but I was never sure if I'd personally like it. Had I known it was a book about Regency era witches, I'd have snapped this book up a hundred yesterdays ago. I'm serious. I LOVE the Regency era. And witches!This book is wonderful and complex, packed with magic and secrets, heartbreak and heartwarming love. The story is energetic and genuine, the magic so flawlessly blended with the historical period that it's impossible not to fall for A Breath of Frost. I loved the characters (Penelope became my fave) and the romance and the general tone of the book. The ghosts were cool, the spooky old house was cool, the murders were cool. The only problem I have with it is that I didn't wait to read it until it was Halloween.A perfect Halloween read if ever I saw one. Recommend to everyone. I barely got through 80 pages of this book. It wasn't necessarily badly written, it was the fact that there was no order to whose POV it would turn to. There were tons of intricacies to the Witch world that would have been fascinating if she could have presented them in the correct order, not this jumble of new ideas. It was kind of like she would think of a new idea mid-sentence, and then go, "Oh! Well, right here is the perfect place to put it." Seriously, a lot of the things about this book could have proved interesting- that braiding your hair interrupts your power, crushing an iron nail between your teeth stops malevolent magic- but it was all too jumbled to make sense. This book had promise, but if she had had more realistic characters- none of them were at all bothered that a girl died and a mansion caught on fire. I mean, why would that bother you?- and had stuck to an ordered POV.
What do You think about A Breath Of Frost (2014)?
I felt it took forever and I got bored with it...
—ForeverALlama
