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​There is nothing quite like hunkering down with a good book on a cold winter’s day, especially a book with a cold winter setting. Christmas in a remote mountain cabin; what could go wrong?

Ryan created a couple of great, sympathetic characters in Christine Sinclaire and her son, Billy. I can feel for her, Christine is in a no-win situation, her husband just died two weeks ago and now it is Christmas. A fifteen-year-old is hard to deal with in the first place, I can only imagine how every decision would have to be second-guessed. I wanted the two of them to work things out, to find a path forward.

Unfortunately, the story just didn’t hit me right. There were some off-putting transitions that made me lose my focus on the story. I was left more than once wondering did that happen or not? It made me disconnect from the story about people I had invested in, I felt the connection with the characters but lost it through the story.

The monster was a bit vague, what was it? Natural? Supernatural? The transitions in the story made everything just out of reach.

I wanted to enjoy Cold Snap, the synopsis really brought me in; but then the story lost me. I don’t know if a longer story would have allowed Ryan to build it up better or if a short story could have been better, one where you get straight to the point of it all. As it stands, Cold Snap left me out in the cold.

*3 Stars

Cold Snap

By Lindy Ryan