Hazel runs away from home with nothing but her backpack and the few meager supplies it contains. Hazel decides to make the daunting trek into the woods to rescue Jack, despite the unknown dangers and the fact that she’s not even sure Jack wants to be saved. The Snow Queen lures Jack into the woods with a promise of escape from the difficulties of life, and he accepts. When a sliver of magically-evil glass gets in Jack’s eye, things change as he starts to see the ugliest side of everything. She and Jack avoid their problems at home (Jack’s mother suffers from depression and Hazel’s parents are recently divorced) and bond over comics and snowball fights. The one place she feels she does belong is with her best friend Jack. And, because she is adopted, even her appearance makes her stand out as different. She is creative and imaginative, and she doesn’t like to follow the rules.
The book asks readers to consider the lengths they would go to save a friend who is lost.
In this novel based on Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen, the real magic is in how Anne Ursu shapes a distant classic winter favorite into a beautiful, thought-provoking contemporary tale, while enhancing the richness of the message, imagery, and characters.
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