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4.0
I received a free copy of this eBook in exchange for an honest review.
Like Winter Arrives, the first episode in the White Cairns series, Fear of Falling was well written and enjoyable.
This episode centres on Fiona, one of the instructors at White Cairns Snow School and the tragedy that befalls her on her first day back at work. The story has a decent level of drama and suspense.
At the beginning of Fear of Falling, the reader picks up on clues that Fiona seems to have had a miscarriage and is going back to work after consequently taking some time off. On her first day back, she is in charge of a school group and all seems to be going well with their lessons until a blizzard comes in. Naturally, all the ski groups start to head towards the bottom of their respective mountains but halfway down, Fiona notices that there is a child missing from her group. She bravely endeavours to find her way back up the mountain and search for the absent boy. What happens on the mountain has the potential to change her perspective on and the way she lives her life.
Fear of Falling was absorbing and leaves you wanting more. It allowed greater insight into the characters than Winter Arrives and you really start to get to know them and their quirks.
I do have one criticism. The reader is often bounced around between the different characters immediate situations. On the one hand, this is nice as it gives you an overview of everything that is happening at the same time, rather than reading about a long period of time and then being sent a few hours into the past. On the other hand, however, I felt that sometimes too short a period of time was spent with each situation and being moved around so much made the narrative somewhat jerky. On occasion, you’d be transported to another scene while something was still happening in the scene you were in. This shift provided an element of suspense, but the moment didn’t seem like it called for suspense.
With the exception of that (which, in fairness, is probably mostly to do with personal preference), I really enjoyed the book and look forward to the next episode.
Like Winter Arrives, the first episode in the White Cairns series, Fear of Falling was well written and enjoyable.
This episode centres on Fiona, one of the instructors at White Cairns Snow School and the tragedy that befalls her on her first day back at work. The story has a decent level of drama and suspense.
At the beginning of Fear of Falling, the reader picks up on clues that Fiona seems to have had a miscarriage and is going back to work after consequently taking some time off. On her first day back, she is in charge of a school group and all seems to be going well with their lessons until a blizzard comes in. Naturally, all the ski groups start to head towards the bottom of their respective mountains but halfway down, Fiona notices that there is a child missing from her group. She bravely endeavours to find her way back up the mountain and search for the absent boy. What happens on the mountain has the potential to change her perspective on and the way she lives her life.
Fear of Falling was absorbing and leaves you wanting more. It allowed greater insight into the characters than Winter Arrives and you really start to get to know them and their quirks.
I do have one criticism. The reader is often bounced around between the different characters immediate situations. On the one hand, this is nice as it gives you an overview of everything that is happening at the same time, rather than reading about a long period of time and then being sent a few hours into the past. On the other hand, however, I felt that sometimes too short a period of time was spent with each situation and being moved around so much made the narrative somewhat jerky. On occasion, you’d be transported to another scene while something was still happening in the scene you were in. This shift provided an element of suspense, but the moment didn’t seem like it called for suspense.
With the exception of that (which, in fairness, is probably mostly to do with personal preference), I really enjoyed the book and look forward to the next episode.
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