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| Author: |
Van Badham |
| Barcode/ISBN13: | 9780330425728 |
| ISBN: | 0330425722 |
| Imprint/Brand: | Pan Australia |
| Release Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Format: | B Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 682 |
| Weight: | 450 grammes |
| Price in AUD: | $24.99 |
| Categories: | Young Adult Urban Fantasy Book Australian Author Paranormal / Supernatural Romance |
Sophie is in the last term of Year 11. She's used to moving around with her accountant father and free-spirited mother, so the move to a small town on the South Coast in NSW doesn't seem too out of the ordinary - at first.
But things are changing around Sophie. A new school means a new start - and she's tired of her mother's superstitions and control. When she's recruited to the ranks of the school's popular girls, Sophie seizes the opportunity to remake herself... and unleashes forces a lot more threatening than whether she can hide her true nerd nature from the high school bitch brigade.
As Sophie negotiates teenage preoccupations with overprotective parents, whether her pyjamas are cool enough for a sleepover and the school-ground politics of secrets, lies and faithless boyfriends, something dark is hovering on the edge of her vision. The school Goth delivers her an ominous warning, strange birds seem to be following her... and fate keeps reuniting her with the dangerous bad boy with a past that nobody wants to talk about: Brody Meine.
Violent storms suddenly erupt, windows explode in the classroom, and a fire engulfs an entire street. And all these escalating, demonic happenings seem to take place when Sophie and Brody Meine are together...
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Burnt Snow puts a modern paranormal twist on the old tale of forbidden love, introducing us to Sophie Morgan, a year 11 student starting at a new school in a fictional town on the NSW South Coast. It’s not long before Sophie notices bad boy loner Brody Meine, and though she’s warned to stay away from him by both her superstitious ‘hippy’ mother and Ashley, the school Goth, Sophie can’t keep her distance. When she and Brody touch, the sparks quite literally start to fly. The romantic elements of Burnt Snow are compellingly told and beautifully evocative; readers will really believe in Brody and Sophie and their dilemma.
This is Van Badham’s first novel, but before she became a novelist she was already an award-winning playwright, and this pays dividends in her assurance with both characters and dialogue in Burnt Snow. The characters come to life and leap off the page as you read, and - for those of us who have put their highschool years behind them – you will feel you’re back in those familiar corridors with Sophie!
This is an addictive read; at 700 pages Burnt Snow is a long book, but there are no slow sections or dull moments, so it certainly doesn’t read like one. The complex and endlessly imaginative plot is filled with witchcraft, magic, and herbal lore, and you never know what the next turn of the page will bring. Burnt Snow ends with an emotional roller coaster of a finale that leaves the reader wanting more.
Burnt Snow is targeted at the YA market, and deals well with issues facing this age group like drugs and teenage sexuality, but the basic story appeals to all ages – I’m a good few years past the ‘young adult’ age group and I certainly enjoyed it!
Adina West www.adinawest.blogspot.com
