And this, I think, is where Hillyer struggled most. I found Tessa’s chapters lacking in their ability to build and keep my interest. She was, wonderfully, a force of nature herself. In so many ways, her storytelling and personality really pulled the novel along. With many sentences impossibly long–one even taking place of an entire lengthy paragraph!–I found myself, on several occasions, needing to reread it. Though beautiful on occasion, I found the so described lyrical prose distracting at times. Lilly and Tessa tell their separate stories, one girl in the past and the other in the present, slowly revealing how their lives intertwine with the boy next door, the main suspect in their elder sister’s death. Ī very subtle retelling of Sleeping Beauty, this novel presents a genuinely interesting tale about the relationship between three sisters. I ended Frozen Beauty with mixed feelings. Then they follow the middle sister, Tessa, as she struggles through how to find the truth of what lead to Kit’s frozen body found in the back of the boy next door, Boyd’s truck. Readers follow the youngest, Lilly, in the past as she navigates through her life and the realization that Kit is keeping something from everyone. As it tells the tale of two sisters in alternating timelines as the truth of their eldest sister’s secrets and eventual death is slowly revealed, I’d say this description is decently accurate. Lexa Hillyer’s Frozen Beauty is marketed with references to poetic and lyrical prose.
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