A Shadow on the Snow

Just reviewing the paperback. A Shadow on the Snow follows a novella in the Off the Beaten Path Christmas anthology, and while you don't NEED to read that first story to understand this one, I do wish I had. I knew it might be a good idea and I didn't do it. My mistake. Still, I wasn't lost at all in......more

The first thing that got my attention was the main character worked at a library. I worked at one for fifteen years and have to say it was my dream job. When Rae is describing some of the patrons that visit the library I laughed. There was always this one customer that none of us liked. We each took......more

What a pleasant surprise. Honestly, when I started reading, I thought I was going to suffer through the whole story. Can we say waaay too many characters? The family tree utterly befuddled me. It was a definite rough start, but about halfway through, it was as if someone had flipped a switch. Sudden......more

This is a good novel with an engaging teen heroine. Rae is intelligent and persistent. I read the short story, the prequel to this novel. It explains how Rae went about the clever but dangerous task of identifying her father. While the facts of that short story are included in this novel, the short......more